When You Get There

A small boy was listening to his teacher explain about whales. She said that, although whales have very large mouths, they have very small throats. "They couldn't, for example, swallow a person", she explained.

The boy raised his hand and asked, "But, teacher, didn't the bible teach us that Johan was swallowed by a whale?"

The teacher, being somewhat secular in her biases, admonished him with, "I'm sure that didn't really happen. Whale throats are too small. They can't swallow a man!"

The boy, troubled by her dismisal of the bible's version of history, announced, "Well, when I go to heaven, I'll ask Jonah myself!"

The teacher replied with a contradictory tone in her voice, "Well, what if Jonah didn't go to heaven? What if he went to hell, instead?"

The boy replied innocently, "In that case, perhaps you can ask him whey you get there."