Rhymingplace

Can't Take it With You

There was a man who had worked all of his life and had saved all of his
money and was a real miser. He loved money more than just about
anything, and just before he died, he said to his wife, "Now listen.
When I die, I want you to take all my money and put it in the casket
with me. Because I wanna take my money to the afterlife with me." And so
he got his wife to promise him with all of her heart that when he died,
she would put all of the money in the casket with him.

Well one day he died. He was stretched out in the casket, the wife was
sitting there in black, and her friend was sitting next to her. When
they finished the ceremony, just before the undertakers got ready to
close the casket, the wife said, "Wait just a minute!' She had a box
with her, she came over with the box and put it in the casket. Then the
undertakers locked the casket down, and they rolled it away.

So her friend said, "I know you weren't fool enough to put all that
money in there with that man."

She said, "I'm a Christian, I can't lie. I promised him that I was
gonna put that money in that casket with him."

"You mean to tell me that you put that money in the casket with the
man?"

"I sure did," said the wife. "'I wrote him a check."