A Muslim and a Jew Walk Into a Bar

So, a Jew, a Muslim, a Catholic and a Protestant walk into a bar......

Nah, it did not quite happen that way but here is the true story.

In my neck of the woods we just had a complete dump of snow on our quaint little town on a peninsula in New England. Since we are pretty much use to having God bless us with tons of white stuff the town was prepped and was out with snow trucks and the guys were even snow blowing the main sidewalks but that left the driveways and your personal sidewalk with what seemed like 8 feet of snow.

I live on a cul-de-sac so I headed out into the frigid air to shovel my drive and a neighbor lady who is single and not a spring chicken, she is not old but maybe a late summer chicken. I started dutifully shoveling with my wife shouting encouragement to me when with in minutes there were tons of people who live on my end of the street out doing the same thing.

We all pitched in to help the people who just could not do it themselves and the children of the neighborhood even had shovels to help out. The smallest tyke is maybe 4 years old and he had his plastic shovel in hand trying to help as well.

When I came in to a wonderful dinner waiting for me, Judy and I started talking about the neighborhood effort. We realized that there were Jews, Muslims, Catholics and Protestants all  working together to help our neighbors out. There were people from all over the world on our street working in unison simply to be nice to someone else. Different colors, different accents, different beliefs but united in loving the United States and the freedom it gives us.

So, if a Jew, a Muslim, a Catholic and a Protestant walk into a bar in my little berg they might be surprised they were in a bar but they would all talk and have a good time with each other.