The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #70500 Message #1251649
Posted By: Cluin
20-Aug-04 - 02:05 AM
Thread Name: BS: Second Joke Thread for 2004
Subject: RE: BS: Second Joke Thread for 2004
A young preacher was asked by a funeral director to hold a graveside service for a deceased man with no family or friends. The funeral was to be held way back in the country and the young preacher got a flat tire on the way there and found out his spare was also flat. It took a while to catch a ride to the nearest service station to repair the tire and get back to the car.
In the meantime, he had forgotten most of the directions to the burial site. He drove around for a while looking for it till he spotted it across a field. Arriving an hour and a half late, he saw a backhoe and crew, but the hearse was nowhere in sight--tired of waiting and long gone probably. The two diggers were off to the side, eating lunch.
The diligent pastor went to the open grave to find the vault lid in place. Wasting no further time, he preached an impassioned and lengthy service.
Walking back to his car, the young preacher felt that he had done his duty and he would leave with a renewed sense of purpose and dedication, in spite of his mishap and resultant tardiness.
As he got into his car, he overheard one of the diggers talking to the other... "I've been putting in septic tanks for over twenty years, and I ain't never seen anything like that before."