Obedience
Once there served a young sexton in a church. He was zealous in obedience and tried to get blessing for everything. One day, the dean charged him with bell-ringing before the service. The sexton immediately asked for blessing and went to the bell tower. A few minutes later the dean noticed that he had given the sexton the keys not to a big old lock, hanging on the door of the belfry, but to his new "Toyota".
He expected the careless novice to come back, but the church bell started ringing followed by change-ringing.
When the bell-ringer returned, they checked the keys. They were to the foreign car. The door to the bell tower was locked.
Later, the curious made several attempts to unlock the bell-tower with the keys to the dean’s car, but in vain. Probably they did not ask for blessing...
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