The Burglar
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© Copyright 1998 - by Margaret Frederickson,
Crime Watch Block Captain

A burglar broke into a house one night.  He shone his flashlight around looking for valuables and when he picked up a CD player to place in his sack, a strange, disembodied voice echoed from the dark saying, "Jesus is watching you."

The burglar nearly jumped out of his skin, clicked his flashlight off and froze.  When he heard nothing more, he shook his head, promised himself a vacation after the next big score, then clicked the light back on and began searching for more valuables.  Just as he pulled the stereo out so he could disconnect the wires, clear as a bell he heard, "Jesus is watching you."

Freaking out, the burglar shone his light around frantically looking for the source of the voice.  Finally, in the corner of the room, his flashlight beam came to rest on a parrot.  "Did you say that?" he hissed at the parrot.   "Yep," the parrot confessed, then squawked, "I'm just trying to warn you."

The burglar relaxed.  "Warn me, huh?  Who do you think YOU are?"  "Moses," replied the bird.  "Moses?" the burglar laughed.  "What kind of stupid people would name a parrot Moses?"   The bird promptly answered: "Probably the same kind of people that would name a Rotweiller Jesus!"

 

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