Threes

The young man was talking to the elderly priest.

He was devoutly religious and had been one of the last of the congregation to leave at the end of the service. He began chatting with the holy man about his problems. He was saying that two really horrible things had happened to him during the previous week. One being that his uncle had died and the other was that he had lost a good friend in a fatal car accident. He went on to describe why these things had affected him so badly. In the case of his uncle, he had always got on with him and considered him to be a wise man who had given him some very good advice over the years. He regarded his passing as a terrible personal loss.

With regards to his friend who had died in the accident, they had been at school together and had known him for a number of years. He had been single like himself. They had always kept in touch and more recently, over the last year, they had played tennis regularly on weekends.

The priest said that he was sorry to hear about his misfortunes and went on to make a personal statement, saying that although it didn’t directly apply to religion, his own mother had always given him very good advice about how things tend to come in threes. On that basis he suggested that he go about his daily life very carefully in the near future, for fear of a third misfortune befalling him.

The next morning, he went out and bought a gun.

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