I Don't Know His Name
Submitted by: HOST GFS Susi@aol.com

 

The Pope visits America and decides to do some sightseeing without his regular entourage. A limousine is ordered and as the driver holds the door open he notices the Pope hesitate.

"Hey! Is there something wrong, Mr. Pope?" the driver ask in heavily accented English.
"Why you not seated yourself in this excellent limo?"

"Well, to tell you the truth," says the Pope, "they never let me drive at the Vatican, and I'd really like to drive."

"That is very much against the rules!" protests the driver, wishing he'd never left Calcutta.

"There might be something extra in it for you," says the Pope.

Reluctantly, the driver gets in the back as the Pope gets in behind the wheel. He quickly regrets his decision when, after getting out of the city and onto the highway, the Pope accelerates the limo to 105 mph. "Please be driving not so rapidly, Mr. Pope," pleads the worried driver, but the Pope keeps the pedal to the metal. Then they hear the siren. "Oh, my God, now I am surely losing my license," moans the driver.

The Pope pulls over and rolls down the window as the patrolman approaches, but the cop takes one look at him, goes back to his motorcycle, and gets on the radio. "I need to talk to the Chief," he says to the dispatcher.

The Chief gets on the radio and the cop tells him that he's stopped a limo going a hundred and five miles an hour.

"So bust him," answers the Chief.

"I think the guy in back is a big shot," says the cop.

"All the more reason," barks the chief.

"No, I mean a really, really big, BIG shot," said the cop.

"Who ya got there, the Mayor?"

"Bigger than the Mayor."

"Governor?"

"Bigger."

"Not the President?"

"Nope, a whole lot bigger!"

"Well," said the chief, "who is it?"

"I don't know for sure," said the cop, "but the Pope is his chauffeur!"

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