01/10/2023 from Daily Jokes
#16777
“Says here,” he says, “you didn’t really do anything wrong and they were willing to let you into the Other Place.”
“Yes,” said the dead soul. “But I said I’d rather be in Hell with my best friend than in Heaven with God!”
“Huh,” says the demon. “Okay, we don’t normally do requests, but this once, we’re prepared to accommodate you. Here we go…”
In a moment they were translated from the Vestibule to the Ninth Circle, where Satan himself is eternally imprisoned at the centre of the great ice plain, and the dead soul saw someone he knew, frozen into the ice. With a gesture, the demon unfroze the ice slightly and pushed the new arrival in next to his friend.
“Enjoy the Circle of Traitors,” he said, and vanished, leaving the two men alone facing each other at arm’s length, already frozen in place from the waist down.
“I don’t understand, Bob,” said the new arrival. “You were a great guy! How did you end up here? In Hell? In the Circle of Traitors?!”
The dead in Hell cannot lie.
“…I fuck3d my best friend’s wife,” Bob answered.
