A new minister had recently been
married. Upon returning home from
their honeymoon, the young wife turned to her husband with a box in her
hand. She said to her husband, "Please promise, dear, that no matter
what, you will never look in this box." Although this seemed like a
very strange request, the minister assured his wife that he would never
look in the box.
Twenty years went by and the seasoned minister was looking around
his closet. He came across the box which, to him, had been long
forgotten. He looked at the box and said to himself, "Surely after
all
these years, it must be okay to peek inside." He opened the box and
inside found $1,200 and three eggs. Just then, his wife entered the
room.
"I thought I asked you never to look inside!" she demanded.
Looking just a bit sheepish, the minister apologized to his wife but
then said that since he had peeked inside, would she mind explaining the
contents.
"Well," replied his wife. "If you must know, every time you
preached a bad sermon, I put an egg in the box." The minister thought
about that for a moment and figured that he had been preaching for
twenty years so three eggs wasn't bad at all.
"That explains the eggs," he replied, "but what about the
$1,200?"
His wife replied, "Every time I got a dozen, I sold them."
