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Originally Posted by TomPravetz
Wait... Is he the idiot for throwing the butter, or was he already one?
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He was already an idiot, though nobody knew until he threw the butter.
Anyway;
A man was having a financial crisis. His mother is sick, his wife and children starving, and he was living in debt. He needed precisely ten thousand dollars to pay it all off. In a fit of desperation, the man wrote a letter addressed to God. In the letter, he explained his problems in detail, his own identity, and his faith, and asked for ten thousand dollars, which he promises to work off in the future. He then puts it in the mail box.
The letter arrived at the local post office. The local post office has a reputation for being careless with their packages; they always arrive either broken, opened, or in perfect condition, but in the wrong address, and their deliveries are quite usually followed by the receiver saying "Damn post office!".
When the manager was shown the letter by a confused postman, he decided to do good, so that maybe the post office can finally have a good image. So he called the whole staff and told them to kick in money to give to the poor man. In the end, they managed to accumulate nine thousand dollars. They then put it in an envelope and sent it back to the man, with "God" written as the sender.
When the man saw the envelope, he was really happy and amazed. Then he opened it and counted the money.
"Hey, there's only nine thousand dollars here! Damn post office!".