SpinnerBait_Nut
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A man and his dog were walking along a<br />road. The man was enjoying the scenery,<br />when it suddenly occurred to him that he<br />was dead. He remembered dying, and that<br />the dog walking beside him had been dead<br />for years. He wondered where the road was<br />leading them.<br /> <br />After a while, they came to a high, white stone<br />wall along one side of THE ROAD. It looked<br />like fine marble. At the top of a long hill it was<br />broken by a tall arch that glowed in the sunlight.<br />When he was standing before it he saw a<br />magnificent gate in the arch that looked like<br />Mother of Pearl, and the street that led to the<br />gate looked like pure gold.<br /> <br />He and the dog walked toward the gate, and<br />as he got closer, he saw a man at a desk to<br />one side. When he was close enough, he<br />called out, "Excuse me, where are we?"<br /> <br />"This is Heaven, sir," the man answered. "Wow!<br />Would you happen to have some water?" the<br />man asked. "Of course, sir. Come right in,<br />and I'll have some ice water brought right UP."<br /> <br />The man gestured, and the gate began to open.<br />"Can my friend," gesturing toward his dog, "come<br />in, too?" the traveler asked. "I'm sorry, sir, but we<br />don't accept pets."<br /> <br />The man thought a moment and then turned<br />back toward the road and continued the way<br />he had been going with his dog. After another<br />long walk, and at the top of another long hill,<br />he came to a dirt road which led through a farm<br />gate that looked as if it had never been closed.<br />There was no fence. As he approached the gate,<br />he saw a man inside, leaning against a tree and<br />reading a book.<br /> <br />"Excuse me!" he called to the reader. "Do you<br />have any water?"<br /> <br />"Yeah, sure, there's a pump over there". The man<br />pointed to a place that couldn't be seen from<br />outside the gate. "Come on in."<br /> <br />"How about my friend here?" the traveler gestured<br />to the dog.<br /> <br />"There should be a bowl by the pump." They went<br />through the gate, and sure enough, there was an<br />old fashioned hand pump with a bowl beside it.<br />The traveler filled the bowl and took a long drink<br />himself, and then he gave some to the dog. When<br />they were full, he and the dog walked back toward<br />the man who was standing by the tree waiting for<br />them.<br /> <br />"What do you call this place?" the traveler asked.<br /> <br />"This is Heaven," he answered.<br /> <br />"Well, that's confusing," the traveler said. "The<br />man down the road said that was Heaven, too."<br /> <br />"Oh, you mean the place with the gold street<br />and pearly gates? Nope. That's Hell."<br /> <br />"Doesn't it make you mad for them to use your<br />name like that?"<br /> <br />"No. I can see how you might think so, but we're<br />just happy that they screen out the folks who'd<br />leave their best friends behind."<br /><br />AMEN Brother to that.
