The bridge

A priest was assigned to a small town.

When he took the confession of the residents one Saturday afternoon, he noticed that many made very long confessions about their having committed adultery because they were ashamed to go directly to the point.

To make their confessions on elicit affairs short, he advised them to just use a code - "I fell from the bridge". Soon that code became institutionalized.

Five years later, the priest was replaced by another prelate whom he forgot to brief about the code.

On his first Saturday, the new priest received confessions from the residents and was surprised to hear some of them telling him about falling from a bridge.

Thinking that the residents were complaining about an unrepaired bridge, he went to see the town mayor about it.

The mayor laughed when he heard the prelate's concern and decided to pull a joke on the man of piety.

"When you hear such a complaint again, father," the mayor said. "please tell them that I am still raising funds for the repair of the bridge."

The priest assured him that he would do as he was told. When the priest was about to leave, he suddenly remembered.

"Mayor, be sure to raise the fund at once," the priest entreated the town official.

"Why the sudden rush, father?" the mayor asked with a wide grin.

"It's for the sake of your wife," said the priest.

"I remember that she told me at the confessional last Saturday that she also fell from that bridge."



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