THE PRIEST'S CODE WORD

PRIEST CODE WORD
There's this old priest who got sick of all the people in his parish
who kept confessing to adultery.

One Sunday, in the pulpit, he said, "if I hear one more person confess
to adultery, I'll quit!!"

Well, everyone liked him, so they came up with a code word.

Someone who had committed adultery would say they had "fallen". This
seemed to satisfy the old priest and things went well, until the priest died
at a ripe old age.

About a week after the new priest arrived, he visited
the Mayor of the town and seemed very concerned.

The priest said, "you have to do something about the sidewalks in
town. When people come into the confessional, they keep talking
about having fallen."

The Mayor started to laugh, realizing that no-one had told
the new priest about the code word.

Before the mayor could explain, the priest shook an accusing finger
at the mayor and said, "I don't know what you're laughing about,
your wife fell three times this week!!"