It's Dark In Here
Every time Peter's mother invited her lover to their home,
she put Peter in the closet. One day her husband came
home early, so her lover quickly hid in the closet with
the boy.
"Hey, mister," Peter said, "it's kinda
dark in here, isn't it?"
"Why, yes, as a matter of fact it is."
"Hey, you wouldn't want to buy my old
baseball, would you? My dad just bought me a new one."
"No, you don't really need baseballs
in my line of work."
"If you don't buy my baseball,"
Peter said, "I'll tell my dad where you are."
"All right, all right," the lover
groaned, "I'll buy your damn baseball. How much is
it?"
"Fifty dollars."
The man didn't want to pay fifty dollars
for a baseball, but he decided he had no other choice.
The boy figured he was on a roll, so he asked, "Hey,
mister, you want to buy my glove?"
The lover didn't even bother arguing: "How
much?"
"A hundred dollars!" The man had
just finished paying up when the woman opened the door
and said the coast was clear.
The next Sunday, the boy went to confession
because he felt guilty for having conned his mother's
lover out of a hundred and fifty bucks. "Hey, mister,"
he said, climbing into the confessional, "it's kinda
dark in here, isn't it?"
The voice groaned, "Not you again!"