[2713] in Humor
HUMOR: Dark in here!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Lima)
Sun Mar 14 18:18:19 1999
From: "Jason Lima" <lima@MIT.EDU>
To: <humor@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 18:20:55 -0500
>>
>>A housewife took a lover during the day while her husband is at work.
While
>>this takes place she locks her 9 year old son in the bedroom closet.
>>
>>One day her husband comes home while the lover is still there so she locks
>>the lover in the same closet with the boy. They stand in the gloom for a
>>while, then the boy says, "Dark in here."
>>
>>"Yes, it is."
>>
>>"I have a baseball."
>>
>>"That's nice."
>>
>>"Wanna buy it?"
>>
>>"No."
>>
>>"My dad is out there."
>>
>>"OK, I'll buy it. How much."
>>
>>"$25.00."
>>
>>"Gee. OK, I'll buy it."
>>
>>A week later the man is over again. The boy is locked in the closet
>>again. The father comes home again. The man is locked in the closet with
>>the boy again. They stand in the gloom until the boy says,
>>
>>"Dark in here."
>>
>>"Yes, it is."
>>
>>"I have a baseball glove."
>>
>>"That's nice."
>>
>>"Wanna buy it?"
>>
>>Remembering the previous week, the man says, "Sure, how much."
>>
>>"$75.00."
>>
>>"Fine."
>>
>>The following weekend the father says to the boy, "Son, go get your ball
>>and glove and lets play some catch."
>>
>>"I can't, Dad. I sold them."
>>
>>"Really? For how much."
>>
>>"$100.00"
>>
>>"Son, you shouldn't rip your friends off like that. We didn't pay
anywhere
>>near that for those items. I'm taking you to the Priest and I want you to
>>confess your greed."
>>
>>They go to the church to the confessional. The boy goes in and sits down.
>>The little door opens so the Priest can hear his confession.
>>
>>"What is your sin, my son."
>>
>>"Dark in here."
>>
>>"Don't start that again."
