The New Priest Wasn’t Aware Of The Code Word …This Is Brilliant
There was an elderly priest who finally grew tired of hearing the same confession over and over again—parishioners admitting to adultery.
One Sunday, from the pulpit, he warned everyone, “If I hear one more person confess to adultery, I’ll quit!”
The congregation liked him, so they came up with a discreet code word. Anyone who had committed adultery would simply say they had “fallen.” That solution seemed to satisfy the old priest, and for a while, everything ran smoothly—until he died at a ripe old age.
About a week after the new priest arrived, he went to visit the town’s mayor, looking deeply troubled.
The priest said, “You’ve got to do something about the sidewalks in this town. People come into the confessional and keep telling me they’ve fallen.”
The mayor burst out laughing, immediately realizing nobody had explained the code word to the new priest.
Before the mayor could clarify, the priest wagged an accusing finger at him and said, “I don’t know what you’re laughing about—your wife fell three times this week.”
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