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Mary the town gossip and self-appointed supervisor of the town's morals, kept sticking her nose into other people's business.

Several local residents were unappreciative of her activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence.

However, she made a mistake when she recently accused George, a local man, of being an alcoholic after she saw his pickup truck parked outside the town's only bar one afternoon.

George, a dedicated Christian and man of few words, stared at her for a moment and just walked away without saying a word.

Later that evening, he parked his pickup truck in front of her house and left it there all night.

Two brothers, John and Richard lived in
the same town. John with his 12 year old
cat, Richard with their 88 year old
Mother. John's whole life was his cat.
He never went anywhere without her. One
day he was faced with a terrible decision.
He had to go to England on business for
his company and he could not take the cat
into England with having to quarantine
her for 14 days. He wouldn't do that so
he was faced with either losing his job
or leaving his cat.

Finally he decided to trust his brother
with the cat for the week he would be
gone. He gave Richard detailed instructions,
schedules, food, etc. Finally he flew to
London and called Richard every few hours
to make sure Gracie the cat was ok. Four
days of this went by and John was really
getting to be a pain in the neck.

On the fifth day when he called John asked
Richard how Gracile was and Richard told
him. "Gracile is dead"! Well as you can
imagine, John nearly had a heart attack.

When he recovered he said to Richard, "That
was the most cruel thing I ever heard. You
know how much I loved that cat, why couldn't
you have broken it to me gently. You know
like when I called said something like,
well she's OK but she is up on the roof.
And then when I called the next time, tell
me oh oh, bad news, she fell off the roof
and she's at the vets. And then the next
time break the news that she passed away.
At least I would have been a little prepared
for the bad news.

"Yes, you are right John. I am sorry for
being so heartless."

John accepted Richard's apology for being
so uncaring, and then said, "Oh, by the
way, how's Mother?"

Richard then said, "Well, John, she's OK,
but she's on the roof!"