A man is in bed with his wife when there is a rat-a-tat-tat on
the door. He rolls over and looks at his clock, and it's half
past three in the morning.
"I'm not getting out of bed at this time", he thinks, and rolls
over.
Then, a louder knock follows. "Aren't you going to answer that?"
says his
wife. So he drags himself out of bed, and goes downstairs. He
opens the
door and there is man standing at the door. It didn't take the
homeowner
long to realize the man was drunk.
"Hi there." slurs the stranger, "Can you give me a push??"
"No, get lost, it's half past three. I was in bed." says the man
and slams
the door.
He goes back up to bed and tells his wife what happened and she
says
"Dave, that wasn't very nice of you. Remember that night we
broke down in
the pouring rain on the way to pick the kids up from the
baby-sitter and
you had to knock on that man's house to get us started again?
What would
have happened if he'd told us to get lost??"
"But the guy was drunk." says the husband.
"It doesn't matter." says the wife. "He needs our help and it
would be the
Christian thing to help him."
So the husband out of bed again, gets dressed, and goes
downstairs. He
opens the door, and not being able to see the stranger anywhere
he shouts:
"Hey, do you still want a push??" and he hears a voice cry out
"Yeah please."
So, still being unable to see the stranger he shouts: "Where are
you?"
And the stranger replies: "I'm over here, on your porch swing."
