What Would You Have Done?

While you are still musing, over my last broadcast, "The Art Of Helpfulness," you have the following.

A man is in bed with his wife when there is a knock at the door. He rolls over and looks at his clock, and it is 3:30 in the morning. "I'm not getting out of bed at this time," he says, and rolls over. Then a louder knock follows. So he drags himself out of bed and goes downstairs. He opens the door and there is a man standing on the porch. It didn't take the homeowner long to realize the man was heavily drunk.

"Hi there," slurs the stranger. "Can you give me a push?" But the homeowner said, "No, get lost! It's half past three. I was in bed." He slams the door, goes back up to bed and tells his wife what happened downstairs. And his wife said, "That wasn't very nice of you. Remember the night we broke down in the rain on the way to pick the kids up from my mum, 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 this guy is heavily drunk," says the husband. "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 again, gets dressed, and goes downstairs. He opens the front door, and not being able to see the stranger anywhere he shouts, “Hey, do you still want a push?" He hears a voice cry out, "Yeah, brother." Still being unable to see the stranger he shouts, "Where are you?" And the drunk replies, "Over here, on the kids' swing."

Note: Tomorrow, we shall start to fix Nigeria.