A pretty and wealthy woman was serving life sentence in prison. Angry
and resentful about her plight she had decided that she would rather
die than to live another year in prison.
Over the years she had
become good friends with one of the prison caretakers. His job, among
others, was to bury those prisoners who died in a graveyard just outside
the prison walls. When a prisoner died, the
caretaker rang a bell,
which was heard by everyone.
The caretaker then got the body and
put it in a casket. Next, he entered his office to fill out the death
certificate before returning to the casket to nail the lid shut.
Finally, he put the casket on a wagon to take it to the graveyard and
bury it.
Knowing this routine, the woman devised an escape plan and
shared it with the caretaker; The next time the bell rang, the woman
would leave her cell and sneak into the dark room where the coffins were
kept. She would slip into the coffin with the dead
body while the caretaker was filling out the death certificate...
When the care-taker returned, he would nail the lid shut and take the
coffin outside the prison with the woman in the coffin along with the
dead body. He would then bury the coffin. The woman having pre-arranged
with the caretaker for special vents in the coffin knew there would be
enough air for her to breathe until later in the evening when the
caretaker would return to the graveyard under the cover of darkness, dig
up the coffin, open it, and set her free.
She would also carry along a small flashlight to cope with the darkness beneath until the hour of expected freedom.
The caretaker was reluctant to go along with this plan, but since he
and the woman had become good friends over the years, and knowing that
he stands to gain a lot from this pretty and wealthy woman, he more than
agreed to do it.
The woman waited several weeks before someone
in the prison died. She was asleep in her cell when she heard the death
bell ring. She got up and slowly walked down the hallway. She was nearly
caught a couple of times. Her heart was beating fast. She opened the
door to the darkened room where the coffins were kept. Quietly in the
dark, she found the coffin that contained the dead body, carefully
climbed into the coffin and pulled the lid shut to wait for the
caretaker to come and nail the lid shut. Soon she heard footsteps and
the pounding of the hammer and nails. Even though she was very
uncomfortable in the coffin with the dead body, she knew that with each
nail she was one step closer to freedom.
The coffin was lifted onto
the wagon and taken outside to the graveyard. She could feel the coffin
being lowered into the ground. She didn't make a sound as the coffin hit
the bottom of the grave with a thud. Finally she heard the dirt
dropping onto the top of the wooden coffin, and she knew that it was
only a matter of time and she would be free at last. After several
minutes of absolute silence, she began to laugh...happily feeling free
already and chanting she was free! she was free! Feeling curious, she
decided to light the flashlight to find out the identity of the dead
prisoner beside her. To her horror, she discovered that she was lying
next to the CARETAKER... Her only hope to freedom.
Many people
believe they have life all figured out...that they are well connected
and can arrange and pre-arrange things to their favour... but sometimes
it just doesn't turn out the way they planned it. Think of a 'Plan B'!!!
Cos at times, even the BEST; plans FAIL... There's only one person that
will never fail you: .GOD.
Nana Sarfo
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