An engineer finds himself at the Pearly Gates and is informed, much to his surprise, that he won’t be allowed in and will have to go to the other place.
Several days later God is asking St. Peter where the new engineer is. St. Peter informs him that the engineer was sent to the other place. God tells St. Peter to check because it must be a mistake. Sure enough, St. Peter comes back and admits he got the wrong name.
Sighing, God picks up the phone. “Satan? Yeah, God. Listen, it looks like we’ve had another one of our mix-ups and we sent you an enginerr by mistake. I need to ask you to send him back up.”
Satan says, “No way! I can’t tell you how happy we’ve been since that engineer got here. He’s already air-conditioned the place. He’s put in escalators to the deepest of the bottomless canyons. Right now he’s rigging up power shovels for the coal mines. You ain’t getting this guy back.”
God screams into his phone, “You’d better send him back or I’ll sue!”
“Right,” Satan replies. “And where are you gonna find a lawyer?