St. Peter congratulated her on her good fortune to have made it to Heaven and asked her if she would mind taking his place at the gates for a few minutes while he took a break.
“I’d be honoured,” she said, “but what should I do if someone comes while you are gone?”
St. Peter reassured her and instructed the woman simply have any newcomers to the Pearly Gates to spell a word as she had done.
So the woman is left sitting in St. Peter’s chair and watching the beautiful angels soaring around her, when low and behold, a man approaches the gates, and she
realizes it is her husband.
“What happened?” she cried,
“Why are you here?”
Her husband stared at her for a moment, then said,