There was a man who had worked all
of his life and had saved all of his money
and 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 put it in the casket with me.
Because 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, one day he died. He was stretched out in the
casket, the 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 fool enough to put all that
money in there with that man. " She said,
"Listen, I'm a Christian, I can't lie. I promised him that
I was gonna put that money in that casket with him."
You mean to tell me you put that money in the casket
with the man?" " I sure did,"
said the wife. "'I wrote him a check."