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What causes arthritis?
...and not respond to what we assume the other said...
The village drunkard staggered up to the parish priest, newspaper in hand, and greeted him politely.
The priest, annoyed, ignored the greeting because the man was slightly inebriated.
He had come with a purpose, however,
“Excuse me, Father,” he said,
“Could you tell me what causes arthritis?”
The priest ignored that too.
But when the man repeated the question the priest turned on him impatiently and cried,
“Drinking causes arthritis, that’s what causes arthritis!
Gambling causes arthritis!
Chasing loose women causes arthritis...”
And only then, too late, “Why did you ask?”
“Because it says right here in the papers that that’s what the Pope has!”
The prayer of the frog. Volume - II
Anthony de Mello
