Apparently there was a doctor who had died, and when he got to the pearly
gates, there was a long line, and he said to himself, "I'm a doctor!
Surely I don't have to wait in a line" so he went to the front of the
line.
St. Peter was there greeting the new arrivals, and he said to the doctor,
"whoa! Wait a minute sir! You have to wait in this here line before I can
let you in".
The Doctor replied, "But I'm a doctor!"
to which St. Peter chuckled and said, "Well, up here you have to wait
just like everyone else."
The Doctor was very angry and stormed back to the end of the line. By now a
lot more folks had arrived, and the line was much longer. As he stood in line,
he stewed over the fact that he had to wait just like everyone else. After
all, he was a doctor. The more he thought about it, the more angry he became.
And just as he was thinking about all of the power and control he was missing
on earth, he noticed a man coming who was dressed in the finest shoes shirt,
tie and trousers under a white a lab coat, completed with a stethoscope
dangling from his neck. "Obviously this man is a doctor" the doctor
thought to himself. But instead of going to the end of the line and waiting
just like everyone else, he walked to the front of the line. Peter gave him a
thumbs up and a wink as he stepped to the side and allowed him to enter,
giving him a high five as he passed.
When the doctor saw this, he was outraged and stomped to the front of the
line and demanded entrance because, like the man who had just been admitted,
he too was a doctor, and should be allowed to enter.
Peter laughed and said "You don't understand sir! That wasn't a
doctor... that was God! He just thinks that he's a doctor!."
The above joke was told by my friend Yatzi Rosenberg as
originally posted at David's
Outcasts discussion list on Oct. 21, 2000.
Doctor in Line at the Pearly Gates
