"An Old Lawyer Found.." joke
An old lawyer found out one day he had inoperable cancer. He was known as something of a miser, and he was determined to work until he drew his last breath. One day, a colleague came to office.
"You really shouldn't waste your last days working," he said. "After all, you know what they say:' You can't take it with you.'"
"The hell I can't," replied the old lawyer, who, right then and there, devised a plan by which he could take at least some of it with him. He went home that evening and told his wife, "Martha, I want you to go down to the bank and withdraw as much money as you can stuff into two large pillow cases. Then put them in the attic directly over the bed. That way, when I die, as my soul rises toward heaven, I can reach out and grab the money."
Martha did as she was told. A couple of weeks later, the lawyer died in his sleep. After the funeral, Martha was clearing some items out of the attic when she came across the pillow cases, still sitting there, full of cash.
"That old fool," she said to herself. "I knew I should have put that money in the basement."
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