The Letter...

[Jemisa]

A man worked in a post office. His job was to process all mail that had illegible addresses. One day a letter came to his desk, addressed in shaky handwriting to God. He thought, "I better open this one and see what it's all about." So he opened it and it read: "Dear God, I am a 83 year old widow living on a very small pension. Yesterday someone stole my purse. It had a hundred pounds in it which was all the money I had until my next pension day.."
"Next Sunday is Mother's Day, and I had invited my last two friends over for dinner. Without that money, I have nothing to buy food with." "I have no family to turn to, and you are my only hope. Can you please help me?"

The postal worker was touched, and went around showing the letter to all the others. Each of them dug into his wallet and came up with a few pounds. By the time he made the rounds, he had collected 96 pounds, which they put into an envelope and sent over to her.

The rest of the day, all the workers felt a warm glow thinking of the nice thing they had done. Mother's Day came and went, and a few days later came another letter from the old lady to God. All the workers gathered around while the letter was opened. It read, "Dear God, How can I ever thank you enough for what you did for me?" "Because of your generosity, I was able to make a lovely dinner for my friends. We had a very nice day, and I told my friends of your wonderful gift. "

"By the way, there was 4 pounds missing. It was no doubt those thieving bastards at the post office!!!!!!

[excelsior-1]

a first class joke, Jem

[Svejk]

Brilliant. ;))

[jim360]

No good deed ever goes unpunished.

[maggiebee]

Brilliant Jem!

[sidkid]

Interesting reply number 3 to this one...
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Phrases-and-Sayings/Jokes/Question1039809.html

[HowardLink]

Joke of this week

[maggiebee]

Yes sidkid, as Jem said, the oldies are the best! Nice to see it getting another airing after 2 years.

[Jemisa]

sidkid.. Why do you do it? do you vet every joke on here? & why? So its got history? so have you evidently. (sigh...)

jem.

[marval]

It is still good Jem

[sidkid]

We all repost (cut and paste to be more accurate) jokes on here. No problem. I simply found it amusing that you had given the previous poster of this joke some stick for posting old jokes...

[Jemisa]

SidKid, Thats alright then.


You're still not going to have a swing on my garden gate tho.... ththth!!

jem

[sidkid]

Bit late for a charm offensive I'm afraid..