The Christian Thing to Do

Can You Give Me a Push



A man is in bed with his wife when there is knocking on the door. He rolls
over and looks at his clock. It's half past three in the morning.

"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, and goes downstairs. He opens the door and
there is man standing at the door. It didn't take the homeowner long to
realize the man was drunk.

"Hi there," slurs the stranger, "Can you give me a push?"

"No, get lost, it's half past three. I was in bed," says the man and slams
the door.

He goes back up to bed and tells his wife what happened and she says "Dave,
that wasn't very nice of you. Remember that night we broke down in the
pouring rain on the way to pick the kids up from the baby-sitter 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 was drunk," says the husband.

"It doesn't matter," 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, "Yeah, please!"

So, still being unable to see the stranger, he shouts: "Where are you?"

And the stranger replies: "I'm over here, on your swing."