When we make a promise, we typically do our best to keep it. There are going to be times when a promise needs to be broken and even the most serious person when it comes to trustworthiness is going to fall short of the mark at times. Sometimes, we may find that we make a promise and later realize it was just too difficult to do. At other times, we may make a promise with the intention of never keeping it. In the following joke, a woman made a promise to her husband that she would bury him with all of his money. The result is not what you would expect.
There was a man who had worked all of his life and had saved all of his money.
He was a real miser when it came to his money. He loved money more than just about anything, and just before he died, he said to his wife, ” Now listen, when I die I want you to take all my money and place it in the casket with me. Because I want to take all my money to the afterlife.”
So he got his wife to promise him with all her heart that when he died she would put all the money in the casket with him. Well, one day he died.
He was stretched out in the casket, the wife was sitting there in black next to their best friend. When they finished the ceremony, just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said: “Wait A Minute!”
She had a shoebox with her, she came over with the box and placed it in the casket. Then the undertakers locked the casket and rolled it away.
Her friend said, “I hope you weren’t crazy enough to put all that money in there with that stingy old man.”
She said, ” Yes, I promised. I’m a good Christian, I can’t lie. I promised him that I was going to put that money in that casket with him.”
“You mean to tell me you put every cent of his money in the casket with him?”
“I sure did,” said the wife. “I got it all together, put it into my account and I wrote him a check.”