A man is in bed with his wife when there is a
rat-a-tat-tat on the door. He rolls over and looks at his clock, and it's half
past three in the morning. "I'm not getting out of bed at this time," and rolls over.
A louder knock follows. "Aren't you going to answer that?" asks his wife. So he drags himself out of bed and goes downstairs, opens the door
and there is a man standing at the door. It doesn't take the homeowner
long to realize the man is drunk. "Hi there," slurs the stranger. "Can you give me a push?"
"No, get lost! It's half past three. I was in bed," says the man and slams the door.
He goes back up to bed and tells his wife what happened. "Dave, that wasn't very nice of you.
Remember that night we broke down in the pouring rain on the way to pick the kids up from the
baby sitter and you had to knock on that man's house to get us started
again? What would have happened if he'd told us to get lost?". "But the guy was drunk"
"It doesn't matter," says the wife. "He needs our help and it would be the
Christian thing to help him." So the husband gets out of bed. He opens the door, and not being
able to see the stranger anywhere, he shouts, "Hey, do you still want a
push?" "Yeah, please." "Where are you?" "I'm over here, on the swing."
