Where Was God?

Abstract

Some of us can remember a time when movies were less sexually explicit than they are today. At such a time, the manager of a certain movie theater once noticed that there was a man who came every day to see the same movie. Day after day, he would show up as soon as the box office opened and go in for the first showing. One day, the manager said to him, “I notice you’re here every day to see the movie again. You must really enjoy it.” The man answered, “Oh, the movie’s all right, I guess. The part I come for is one love scene toward the end. The hero and heroine are alone in a field, and just as they get to the intimate part, a train comes by and you can’t see what they do. That’s why I keep coming back. I figure one of these days, that train is going to be late.”