Smart Woman

[nikkala]

There was a man who had worked all of his life,

>had

>saved all of his money, and was a real miser when it came to his

>money. Just

>before he died, he said to his wife, "When I die, I want you to take

>all my

>money and put it in the casket with me. I want to take my money to the

>

>afterlife with me."

>

>And so he got his wife to promise him with all of her heart that when

>he

>died, she would put all of the money in the casket with him.

>

>Well, he died. He was stretched out in the casket, his wife was

>sitting

>there in black, and her friend was sitting next to her. When they

>finished the

>ceremony, just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket,

>the wife

>said, "Wait just a minute!" She had a box with her; she came over with

>the box

>and put it in the casket. Then the undertakers locked the casket down,

>and

>they rolled it away.

>

>So her friend said, "Girl, I know you weren't foolish enough to put

>all that

>money in there with your husband."

>

>The loyal wife replied, "Listen, I'm a Christian; I can't go back on

>my

>word. I promised him that I was going to put that money in that casket

>with him."

>

>"You mean to tell me you put that money in the casket with him!!!!?"

>

>"I sure did," said the wife. "I got it all together, put it into my

>account

>and wrote him a check. If he can cash it, he can spend it."