My brother is an over the road truck driver. He told me that over the weekend he was driving through rural Georgia where he noticed a community creche scene in front of the city hall of some small city. The three wise men were dressed in firefighters' turnout gear, coats, helmets, boots, and airpacks on their backs. Bob, being the curious sort, stopped at the local Piggly Wiggly and asked what was going on with the creche scene.

The woman behind the counter glared at him and said, "You northerners don't read your bibles very much, do you?"

Bob responded that he was a lay minister but had never heard that the Wise Men had such noble occupations. The woman retorted, "Hmmmph, it says right there in the Bible that the three wise men came from a fahr!"



TEd