"You Can't Take It With You" joke

A greedy lawyer, diagnosed with a terminal illness, was determined to prove the saying "You can't take it with you" wrong. Giving it some thought he was sure he had figured out a way to take some of his money with him when he died.
He told his wife to go to the bank and withdraw enough cash to fill a couple of pillow cases. Then she was to take the filled pillow cases to the attic and place them directly above his bed. That way, when he did die, all he would have to do was reach out and grab the cases on his way to heaven.
Weeks after his funeral his wife was up in the attic and found the two forgotten cases filled with cash. "Silly fool," she said. "I told him I should have put the cases in the basement."

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