The pair sat through a lengthy speech in church, with the woman eventually succumbing to exhaustion and dozing asleep. Upon seeing this, her husband sought to awaken her by gently pressing her with his finger. At that point, the priest also asked the community a question.
The priest then asked the crowd who had liberated the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. When jolted awake from her sleep, the wife exclaimed, “GOD!” before falling back asleep.
When asked again about who had given their lives for the forgiveness of their sins, she exclaimed unequivocally, “JESUS CHRIST!”
The woman slumbered through the sermon, slightly irritated by her husband’s unexpected shake – an unsurprising happening. Her husband quickly tried to wake her when the priest asked a question.
“What did Eve say to Adam after they had their last child?” he inquired. She responded angrily, “I swear to God, if you poke me with that thing one more time, I’m going to take it and snap it in half.”
The congregation erupted in laughter, captivated by the unfolding scene of marital mischief and the wife’s unintentionally humorous outbursts. It was a moment of levity and shared amusement, a reminder that even in the solemn setting of a church, the human experience can sometimes manifest in delightfully unexpected ways.
As the service drew to a close, the couple left the church, the wife perhaps a bit more well-rested than her husband, and the congregation with a new appreciation for the comedic potential that can arise from the most ordinary of situations.