[Dailydrool] What would you do?

[Nadine Mysker]

   A man and his dog were walking along a road. The man was enjoying
 the scenery, when it suddenly occurred to him that he was dead.
 He remembered dying, and that the dog walking beside him had been
 dead for years. He wondered where the road was leading them.
   After a while, they came to a high, white stone wall along one side of
 the road. It looked like fine marble. At the top of a long hill, it was broken
 by a tall arch that glowed in the sunlight. When he was standing before it
 he saw a magnificent gate in the arch that looked like mother-of-pearl,
 and the street that led to the gate looked like pure gold. He and the dog
 walked toward the gate, and as he got closer, he saw a man at a desk to
 one side
   When he was close enough, he called out, 'Excuse me, where are we?'
 'This is Heaven, sir,' the man answered. 'Wow! Would you happen to have
 some water?' the man asked. 'Of course, sir. Come right in, and I'll have
 some ice water brought right up.'
   The man gestured, and the gate began to open. 'Can my friend,' gesturing
 toward his dog, 'come in, too?' the traveler asked. 'I'm sorry, sir, but we
 don't accept pets.' The man thought a moment and then turned back toward
 the road and continued the way he had been going with his dog.
   After another long walk, and at the top of another long hill, he came to a
 dirt road leading through a farm gate that looked as if it had never been
 closed. There was no fence. As he approached the gate, he saw a man
 inside, leaning against a tree and reading a book.. 'Excuse me!' he called
 to the man. 'Do you have any water?'  'Yeah, sure, there's a pump over there,
 come on in'.   'How about my friend here?' the traveler gestured to the dog.
 'There should be a bowl by the pump the man replied.'
    They went through the gate, and sure enough, there was an old-fashioned
 hand pump with a bowl beside it. The traveler filled the water bowl and took
 a long drink himself, then he gave some to the dog. When they were full
 he and the dog walked back toward the man who was standing by the tree.
 'What do you call this place?' the traveler asked.'This is Heaven,'
he answered.
 'Well, that's confusing,' the traveler said, 'The man down the road
said that was
 Heaven, too. 'Oh, you mean the place with the gold street and pearly gates?
 Nope. That's hell.'
   'Doesn't it make you mad for them to use your name like that?' 'No,
we're just
 happy that they screen out the folks who would leave theirbest friends behind.'