So for my 1,000th post I was going to put one of my favorite beer jokes, but then after days of pondering I decided to tell a story instead.
A few years ago I was hired by a priest in the Vatican to give a few private tours to friends of his that were visiting for work. These friends were 2 priests and a deacon. The deacon was an avid smoker and while on tour in St. Peter's Basilica he was trying to rationalize his smoking habits. The way he did so was to claim that St. Peter was a smoker so therefor it was ok for him to have the same vice. St. Peter a smoker???? Well he then went into his 3-fold reason of how he knew St. Peter was indeed a smoker. Here it is:
1. Peter was originally a fisherman named Simon. How many career fisherman do you know that don't dip or smoke. So by default odds are he must have been a smoker.
2. When you go to Heaven, who meets you at the Pearly Gates? St. Peter... 'cause he is outside having a smoke.
3. In scripture when they make a specific point about something, it is for a reason. So when the story is told about the apostles finding out that Jesus's body is no longer in the tomb; they say St. Peter was the first to leave running from the house, but the last to arrive at the tomb. Well it is obvious that he has hacker's lung and had to stop along the way to cough.
This deacon also told me about his epiphany in the Clementine Chapel (which regarded smoking) and why he would be good on the side of Major Tobacco (his evidence involves a Pope). But I will save those stories for another time.
He had me in stitches with everything he did that day. I did get one or two uncomfortable looks from the guards, but they weren't about to say anything because of the priests. Thankfully.
Well I hope you enjoyed this!
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You are such a great source of wisdom and info here at SlowTrav!!
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...you've packed a ton of great information into your 1000 posts! I totally appreciate every written word!
