A woman arrived at the Gates of Heaven. While she was waiting
for Saint
> >Peter to greet her, she peeked through the gates. She saw
a beautiful
> >banquet table. Sitting all around were her parents and all
the other
people she had loved and who had died before her.
> > >
> > >They saw her and began calling greetings to her
"Hello - How are you!
> >We've been waiting for you! Good to see you."
> > >
> > >When Saint Peter came by, the woman said to him,
"This is such a
> >wonderful place! How do I get in?" "You have to spell a
word," Saint
Peter told her.
> > >
> > >"Which word?" the woman asked.
> > >
> > >"Love."
> > >
> > >The woman correctly spelled "Love" and Saint Peter
welcomed her into
> >Heaven. About a year later, Saint Peter came to the woman
and asked her
to watch the Gates of Heaven for him that day.
> > >
> > >While the woman was guarding the Gates of Heaven, her
husband arrived.
> >"I'm surprised to see you," the woman said. "How have you
been?"
> > >
> > >"Oh, I've been doing pretty well since you died," her
husband told her.
> >"I married the beautiful young nurse who took care of you
while you were
> >ill. And then I won the multi-state lottery. I sold the
little house you
> >and I lived in and bought a huge mansion. And my wife and
I traveled all
> >around the world. We were on vacation in Cancun and I went
water skiing
> >today. I fell and hit my head, and here I am. What a
bummer! How do I get in?"
> > >
> > >"You have to spell a word," the woman told him.
> > "Which word?" her husband asked.
> >
> > >"pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosi ", she
replied
> > >
> > >Moral of the story: Never make a woman angry...There
will be Hell to
pay!
> > >
> > >NB: For your info: The longest word currently listed
in Oxford
dictionary is the supposed lung-disease
> > >pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45
letters).
> >
