Another from the Joke-master Roland…

Beggars Belief

A veteran officer from the Falklands War is in London. He’s walking along a passageway that leads to one of the underground platforms at Piccadilly Station when he sees a beggar in a wheelchair. He stops to read the cardboard sign that the beggar is holding, “Homeless, hungry and unwanted  Falklands veteran”.

“Poor beggar,” he thinks to himself, “to be in such a state after all these years. What a shame. But for the grace of God that could be me.”

He draws his wallet from a trouser pocket. He normally fulfills his moral obligation to the needy with a golden coin but on this occasion he is so moved that he takes out a twenty-pound note.

“Here we are, good man,” he says, placing the crisp note into the beggar’s grimy hand.

The beggar’s eyes light up, he smiles and says:

“Gracias amable señor!”