Posted on 03/08/2019 2:24:15 PM PST by sodpoodle
A cowboy, who just moved to Montana from Texas, walks into a bar and orders three mugs of Bud.
He sits in the back of the room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn.
When he finishes them, he comes back to the bar and orders three more.
The bartender approaches and tells the cowboy, "You know, a mug goes flat after I draw it.
It would taste better if you bought one at a time."
The cowboy replies, "Well, you see, I have two brothers. One is in Arizona , the other is in Colorado.
When we all left our home in Texas, we promised that we'd drink this way to remember the days when we drank together.
So I'm drinking one beer for each of my brothers and one for myself."
The bartender admits that this is a nice custom, and leaves it there.
The cowboy becomes a regular in the bar, and always drinks the same way. He orders three mugs and drinks them in turn.
One day, he comes in and only orders two mugs. All the regulars take notice and fall silent.
When he comes back to the bar for the second round, the bartender says, "I don't want to intrude on your grief, but I wanted to offer my condolences on your loss."
The cowboy looks quite puzzled for a moment, then a light dawns in his eyes and he laughs.
"Oh, no, everybody's just fine," he explains.
"It's just that my wife and I joined the Baptist Church and I had to quit drinking."
“It hasn't affected my brothers though."
I was stopped at a red light at a busy intersection, just lost in thought about the Lord and how good He is and I didn’t notice that the light had changed.
I worked as a night shift enlarger operator in a pro photo lab. A fellow enlarger operator was into Garner Ted Armstrong’s World Wide Church of God.
So my friend was working in the dark at his enlarger and thinking about God, when he heard a click, and the room began to glow red. Then he started feeling heat on his legs. He almost had a heart attack, fearing that the end of the world was upon us and he was feeling the heat of hell!
The glow and the heat persisted but seemed to be coming from under the easel table he was sitting at. Looking down, he saw that the day shift operator, apparently feeling cold, had brought in an electric space heater and sat it under the table. The click was the thermostat turning the heater on, the glow was from the electric heater coils, and the heat was being blown onto him by the heater fan.
Was he ever relieved!
I'll bet he was relieved when he realized it was a heater! The room beginning to glow red would be a real bad sign if it wasn't. ;)
When the glow started, he thought he might be going to hell. And when his legs and feet began getting hot he KNEW he was. LOL
Bet it was a hell of a wakeup call...
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