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God and the widow

  • 30-07-2002 11:14am
    #1
    Venom
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    > There was this young lad who worked in a post office sorting office, place
    > whose job it was to handle all mail that had illegible addresses. One day
    > a letter came to his department, addressed in a very shaky and spidery
    > handwriting to none other than God. He
    > thought, "Janey Mac, better open this one and see what it's all about." so
    > he opened it and read:
    >
    > "Dear God, I am an 83-year-old widow in Raheny living on a very small
    > pension. Yesterday someone stole my purse. It had a hundred euro in it,
    > which was all the money I had until my next pension payment. Next Sunday
    > is Easter, and I had invited two of my pals over for dinner. Without that
    > money, I have nothing to buy any food with. I have no family to turn to,
    > and you are my only hope. Can you please help me?"
    >
    > The postal worker was touched, and went around showing the letter to all
    > the others. Each of them dug into his wallet and camp up with a few euro.
    > By the time he made the rounds, he had collected 96euro, which they put
    > into an envelope and sent over to her. The
    > rest of the day, all the workers felt a warm glow, thinking of the nice
    > thing they had done.
    >
    > Easter came and went, and a few days later came another letter from the
    > old lady to god. All the workers gathered around while the letter was
    > opened.
    > It read: "Dear God, this is that widow in Raheny. How can I ever thank you
    > enough for what you did for me? Because of your generosity, I was able to
    > arrange a really lovely dinner for my two friends. We had a very nice day,
    > and I told my friends of your wonderful gift.
    > "By the way, there was 4 euro missing. It was no doubt those thieving
    > ****ers in the post office."
    >


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