"Time Waits For No One" Wednesday
Posted by: bigguyhereagain <bigguyhereagain@...>
A man came home from work late again, tired
and irritated. He found his 5-year-old son
waiting for him at the door.
"Daddy, may I ask you a question?"
"Yeah, sure, what is it?" replied the man.
"Daddy, how much money do you make an
hour?"
"That's none of your business! What makes
you ask such a thing?" the man said angrily.
"I just want to know. Please tell me, how much
do you make an hour?" pleaded the little boy.
"If you must know, I make $20 an hour."
"Oh," the little boy sighed, head bowed. Looking
up, he asked "Daddy, may I borrow $10 please?"
The father was furious. "If the only reason you
wanted to know how much money I make is just
so you can borrow some to buy a silly toy or some
other nonsense, then you march yourself straight
to your room and go to bed. Think about why you're
being so selfish. I work long, hard hours every day
and don't have time for such childish games."
The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the
door.
The man sat down and started to get even madder
about the little boy's questions. How dare he ask
such questions only to get some money.
After an hour or so, the man had calmed down, and
started to think that he may have been a little hard
on his son. Perhaps there was something his son
really needed to buy with that $10, and he really
didn't ask for money very often.
The man went to the door of the little boy's room and
opened it. "Are you asleep, son?" he asked.
"No daddy. I'm awake." replied the boy.
"I've been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you
earlier." said the man. "It's been a long day, and
I took my aggravation out on you. Here's that $10
you asked for."
The little boy sat straight up, beaming. "Oh, thank
you, Daddy!" he exclaimed. Then, reaching under
his pillow, he pulled out some more crumpled up
bills.
The man, seeing that the boy already had money,
started to get angry again.
The little boy slowly counted out his money, then
looked up at his dad.
"Why did you want more money if you already had
some?" the father demanded.
"Because I didn't have enough, but now I do." the
little boy replied. "Daddy, I have $20 now. Can
I buy an hour of your time?"
In Hades, he saw a long table extending as far as the eye could reach, laden down with the most delicious of all varieties of foods. But everyone around the table was starving to death.
When asked for an explanation, Peter said, "Well, everyone is required to take food from the table only with four-foot long chopsticks. They are so long that no one can reach the food from the table to his mouth, and therefore each one is dying of starvation."
Quickly they returned to Heaven, and behold, the new arrival saw an identical table, laden down with identical foods, but everyone around the table was happy and well-fed. Then he said to Peter, "With what do they take food from this table?" Peter answered, "Only with four-foot long chopsticks."
At that point, the new arrival scratched his head and said, "Well, why are all those in Hades starving to death while all those up here are so well fed and happy?" Whereupon Peter replied, "In Heaven we feed each other. The love we hold back is the only pain that we have here."
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