Deaf Loyalty
Two Deaf friends were sitting in their favorite Deaf bar.
Every Friday night they met there and had been doing so
for over 10 years now. The bartender always watched
their conversations discretely. The first Deaf friend, named
Joe was 10 years older than the second Deaf friend named
Mark. Joe was feeling his old age and made Mark make a
solum promise to bury his fortune with him in his casket,
so he could, "Take it with him". This communication went
on every week, week after week. Joe would sign, "Mark
you gotta promise me on your word of honor that you'll
bury my fortune with me! Swear!" And every week Mark
would dutifully make this promise. One fateful Friday
evening Mark came in without Joe! The bartender walked
over and inquired if Joe was ok? Mark signed sadley that
Joe had passed over into the next world. The bartender
stood and stared at Mark for what seemed like an eternity.
Mark just sat there and soulfully sipped his drink. Finally
the bartender could contain himself no longer! "Mark!" he
signed, "now be honest with me, Did you really, really bury
Joes money with him like you promised!?" Mark looked
thoughtfully into his drink and a very slight smile crept
onto the corner of one side of his mouth. "Sort of " he
signed. "What do you mean sort of?!" asked the exasperated
bartender. "Well," signed Mark, " I wrote him a check."