In the congregation of a church during Sunday morning service was a young bride, whose husband was an usher. Becoming terribly worried about having left the roast in the oven, she wrote a note to her husband , sending it to him by another usher.

The latter, thinking it was a note of the pastor, hurried down the aisle and laid it on the pupil. Stopping abruptly in the middle of his sermon to read the note, the astonished pastor saw this written injunction. “Please go home and turn off the gas.”