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Preacher’s Wife Puts an Egg in The Box For Bad Sermons

 

A preacher found a shoe box in a closet. He opened it and found strange contents. Inside was an egg carton with 5 eggs. Next to the eggs was a stack of bills that totaled over 10,000 dollars. As soon as his wife walked thru the door, he stopped her to ask if she knew anything about this odd combination. ‘Yes, dear, after we got married, I decided that after every sermon you preached if it was a bad one, I would put an egg in this shoe-box’. The preacher thought with pride about all the years they had been married and that only 5 eggs were in the box. ‘But honey, what about the 10,000 dollars? ‘Oh, well every time I got a dozen eggs, I sold them.’ (Source Unknown).