The Nun
A nun was sitting at the airport, waiting for her flight to Chicago. She looked over in the
corner and saw one of those weight machines that tells your fortune and thought to herself, "I'll
give it a try and see what it tells me." She went over to the machine, stepped up on the scale
and put her nickel in. Out came a card that read,

"You are a nun, you weigh 128 lbs, and you are going to Chicago."

The nun sat back down. She told herself that the machine probably gives the same card to
everyone. The more she thought about it though, the more curious she got, so she decided to try
it again. She went back to the machine and again put her nickel in, and out came a card that
read,

"You are a nun, you weigh 128lbs, you are going to Chicago and you are going to play a fiddle."

The nun said to herself, "I know that is wrong, I have never played a musical instrument even
once in my life." She sat back down. From out of nowhere a cowboy came over and sat down,
putting his fiddle case on the seat between them. Without thinking, she opened the cowboy's case,
took out the fiddle, and started playing beautiful music. Surprised at what she had done, she
looked over at the machine, thinking, "This is incredible, I've got to try this again." Back to
the machine she went, put in another nickel, and another card came out. It read,

"You are a nun, you weigh 128 lbs, you are going to Chicago and you are going to break wind."

Now she knew the machine was wrong, as she thought to herself, "I've never broken wind in public
a single time in my life." But getting down off the machine she slipped, and as she was straining
to keep herself from falling to the floor, she broke wind. Absolutely stunned, she sat back down
and looked at the machine. She said to herself, "This is truly remarkable. I've got to try this
again." She went back to the machine, put in another nickel, and another card came out. It read,

"You are a nun, you weigh 128 lbs, and you have fiddled and farted around and missed your flight
to Chicago."

category: religion  date entered: 2006-11-01