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Push Start
by Craig
A man is in bed with his wife on a cold and icy night when there is a rat-a-tat-tat on the door.
He rolls over and looks at his clock, and it's two a.m.
"I'm not getting out of bed at this time," he thinks, and
rolls over. Then, a louder knock follows.
"Aren't you going to answer
that?" says his wife. So he drags himself out of bed, goes
downstairs and opens the door.
"Hi there," slurs the stranger. "I'm stuck, can you give me a push?"
"No, get lost. It's two a.m." says the man and he
slams the door.
He goes back up to bed and tells his wife what happened.
"Dave, that
wasn't very nice of you," she says. "Remember that night we broke down
in the pouring rain on the way to pick the kids up from the babysitter,
and you had to knock on that man's house to get us started again? What
would have happened if he'd told us to get lost?"
"But the guy seems drunk," says the husband.
"All the same" says the wife. "He needs our help and it would be
the Christian thing to help him."
So the husband gets out of bed again, gets dressed, and goes downstairs.
He opens the door, and not being able to see the stranger anywhere, he
shouts, "Hey, do you still want a push?"
And he hears a voice cry out in the darkness "Yes please"
"Where are you?"
"I'm here in the garden" the stranger replies, "on your swing".
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