Pope John Paul dies of old age and finds himself at the Gates of
Heaven at 0300. He knocks on the gate and a very sleepy-eyed
watchman opens the gate and asks, "Wadda ya want?" "I'm the
recently deceased Pope and have done 63 years of Godly work and
thought I should check in here." The watchman checks his clipboard
and says, "I ain't got no orders for you here, just bring your
stuff and we'll sort this all out in the morning." They go to an
old World War II-style barracks, third floor, open bay. All the
bottom racks are taken and all empty lockers have no doors. The
Pope stows his gear under a rack and climbs into an upper bunk.
The next morning he awakens to sounds of cheering and clapping.
He gets up and goes to a window and sees a flashy Jaguar
convertible parading down the clouds from the golden headquarters
building. The cloudwalks are lined with saints and angels cheering
and tossing confetti. In the back seat sits a navy Chief, his
silver Dolphins glistening on his chest, a cigar in his mouth,
a bottle of San Miguel in one hand, and his other arm around a
voluptuous blonde angel with magnificent halos. This disturbs the
Pope and he runs downstairs to the Master-At-Arms shack and says,
"Hey, what gives? You put me, the Pope, with 63 years of Godly
deeds in an open bay barracks while this Chief, who must have
committed every sin known and unknown to man is staying in a
mansion on the hill and getting a hero's welcome. How can that be?"
The Master-At-Arms calmly looks up and says, "We get a Pope up
here every 20 or 30 years, but we've never had a Navy Chief before."