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With experience comes wisdom. After digging

  • With experience comes wisdom. After digging graves for 45 years, George decided to train a replacement. He placed an ad in the local paper: Wanted, gravedigger; nobody called.

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  • He couldn't understand it. Why wasn't anybody willing to learn gravedigging? Then he looked at his ad again. It looked like a wanted poster. WANTED: GRAVEDIGGER. People were afraid

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  • that they'd get the job and immediately get arrested. This was the poster's fault! He called up the printing company to complain. "Sir," the clerk said, her patience worn thin.

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  • The Clerk had been having a bad day. This was the fifth complaint call of the morning, and it was barely 10:30. "Sir, I understand your frustration-" "I'm going to go to prison!"

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  • "Why didn't you lead with that? I'm on it." Minutes later a limo arrived, driven by Dwayne Johnson: "Sir, you're off to San Quentin in style! Your prison send-off package includes

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  • some orange overalls a size too big, cool tattoo stickers, a Spanish dictionary and a cake with an inconspicuous file buried in the middle. Dwayne opened the back door of the limo

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  • and who should he see but the Commander-in-Chief smiling at him. "I'll give you a pardon, Dwayne," he said, "but first I'd like you to do a little something for me." Dwayne could

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  • Smell what he was cookin', alright, so gave him the peoples... Eyebrow and rock bottomed the Commander-in-Chief through the nearby desk. The CiC stood up after several moments and

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  • shook his head. "Was I dreaming? No, this really happened..." The CiC stood dazed and confused, realizing all the wrongs that needed to be righted. Sometimes a good knocking works.

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  • So, he knocked. He loved knocking. The sensation of a tight fist, and the resonating sound sinking through the wood of a door. Or the plastic of a door. Whatever the material.

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1 Comments

  1. Shabadu666 Jun 20 2025 @ 00:31

    Can't knock that ending.

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