12.22.2003

Conversation during Saturday morning breakfast

Friend: "...has enough money to retire now..." [at age 32]

Priest: "Well, he should will it to [our organization]. You might recall the story about the man who saved up all his life for a comfortable retirement, and then God came down and told him he was going to die on that day."

Ditzy college girl: "Ohmygod! So, did he, like, die?"

Priest: "well, yes, that's the point of the story: you can't take it with you."