There was a man who had worked all
of his life, had saved all of his money and was a real miser when it came to
his money. Just before he died, he said to his wife, “When I die, I want you to
take all my money and put it in the casket with me. I want to take my money to
the afterlife with me.”
And so he got his wife to promise
him with all of her heart that when he died, she would put all of the money in
the casket with him.
Well, he died. He was stretched out
in the casket, his wife was sitting there in black and her friend was sitting
next to her.
When they finished the ceremony,
just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said, “Wait
a minute!” She came over with the box and put it in the casket. Then the undertakers
locked the casket down, and they rolled it away.
So her friend said, “I know you
weren’t fool enough to put all that money in there with your husband.”
The loyal wife replied, “I’m an
honest loyal wife, I can’t go back on my word. I promised him that I was going
to put that money in that casket with him.”
“You mean to tell me you put that
money in the casket with him!!!!?”
“I sure did,” said the wife. “I got
it all together, put it into my account and wrote him a check. If he can cash
it, he can spend it.”
Loyal is need and the same time we
must realize the fact.