How Could He Have Known?

One evening, when a priest was walking down the street, he noticed a very small boy trying to press a doorbell on a house across the street. As hard as the little boy tried, he couldn’t reach the doorbell. After sympathetically watching the frustrated boy’s efforts for a while, the priest moved closer to the boy's position, placed his hand kindly on the little boy’s shoulder, leaned over and gave the doorbell a solid ring.

Now pleased with himself, the priest crouched down to the little boy’s level, smiled benevolently and asked, "And now what, my little man?" To which the boy replied, "Now we run, like hell."