Mystery solved!

I don't know about you, but the old Why did the Chicken Cross the Road joke always puzzled me. I wondered, why would a chicken ever cross a road? Well, I just happened to stumble across the answer to this perplexing question a few days ago.

I was running in my neighborhood, minding my own business, and all of a sudden, a chicken crosses the road in front of me. My neighborhood is very suburban, mind you. It's not every day that I see a chicken there. 

So, the chicken ran across the road, a black dog chased it out of the house and up to the curb, but the dog would not cross the road. 

Then a lady in a mumu ran out of the house chasing the dog and the chicken, but she wouldn't go past her porch. 

It was too funny. Dog chases chicken, but is scared to cross the street. Woman chases dog, but it scared to be seen in public in her mumu. 

The chicken was running away from the dog and the mumu lady. That is why the chicken crossed the road. Mystery solved.