Engineer in Hell

"Having Some Fun With A Wrong Number"

It was last Wednesday night, and I was sitting in my
room watching television when the phone rang. "Hello?"
I said. A girl's voice came over the line. "Can I
speak to Ben, please?" I live by myself, and my name
definitely is not Ben. It was probably a wrong number
and I was bored. I replied, "I'm sorry, he's not in
right now. Can I take a message?"

"Do you know what time he'll be back?" she responded.

"I think he said he'd be home around 10:00."

Silence on the other end... a confused silence.

"Is this Steve?"

My name isn't Steve, either. This was definitely a
wrong number.

So I replied, "Yes, it is. Do you want to leave a
message for Ben?"

"Well... he said he would be home tonight and asked me
to call him," she said in a slightly irritated voice.

I replied, "Well, he went out with Karen about an hour
ago, and said that he would be back at 10:00."

A shocked voice now: "Who's Karen?!"

"The girl he went out with."

"I know that! I mean... who is she?"

"I don't know her last name. Look, do you want me to
leave a message for Ben?"

"Yes... please do. Tell him to call me when he gets
home."

She was sounding pretty irate at this point, and I
could hear her temper flaring. "I sure will. Is this
Jennifer?"

She exploded, "Who's Jennifer?"

Apparently she wasn't.

"Well... he's going out with Jennifer at 10:00. I
thought you were her. Sorry... it was an honest
mistake."

"Ben's the one that's made the mistake! Tell him that
Alice called him and the she's very upset and that I
would like him to call me as soon as he gets home."

I smiled and said, "Okay, I will... but Becky isn't
going to like this..."

*Click*

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"Engineer in Hell"

An engineer dies and reports to hell.

Pretty soon, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of
comfort in hell, and starts designing and building improvements.

After a while, they've got air conditioning and flush toilets and
escalators, and the engineer is a pretty popular guy.

One day G~d calls Satan up on the telephone and says with
a sneer, "So, how's it going down there in hell?"

Satan replies, "Hey things are going great. We've got air
conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and there's
no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next."

G~d replies, "What??? You've got an engineer? That's a mistake --
he should never have gotten down there; send him up here."

Satan says, "No way. I like having an engineer on the staff,
and I'm keeping him."

G~d says, "Send him back up here or I'll sue."

Satan laughs uproariously and answers, "Yeah, right. And just
where are you going to get a lawyer?"
Received on Tue Apr 20 08:39:01 2004