Old Fred Very Sick

Fred was very old, sick, and doctors said he would not dying.

Fred was at home in his bed.

He smelled the aroma of his favorite chocolate chip cookies baking in the kitchen downstairs, and he wanted to the one last cookie eat before he died.

His life fading, he made his way down the stairs and drag into the kitchen where his wife was busily baking cookies.

With his last remaining strength, he crawled to the table and was just barely able to lift his withered arm to the cookie sheet.

As he grasped a warm, moist chocolate chip cookie, his wife suddenly  whacked with a spatula his hand .

Gasping for , he asked her,

“Why did you do that?”

“Those are for the funeral.”