This popped into my head during an idle moment at work - so it may not be original - but I seem to recall reading or dreaming up a story prompt or Tumblr convo or something, around the lines of what should happen to someone who’s not, like, Hitler bad, but kind of vaguely a bit of an asshole sometimes.
The idea is, the guy still goes to Heaven, buuuuuut …
What I think was the original was, “You still get to go to Heaven, but there’s a popcorn shard stuck in your teeth for all eternity.”
My idea was, “You still get to go to Heaven, but you intermittently hear a random beeping sound, for all eternity.”
… thought it would make for a fun lil’ game. Aaaaand … go!
This couple is driving down the road when they miss a curve & plunge over an embankment & tragically they both die & go up to Heaven. The wife is first in line & when it’s her turn with St. Peter he explains that she was hardly a model citizen & they will let her in but ::click:: she is now handcuffed to a bum for all eternity as her penance.
A couple of days go by & she sees her husband, handcuffed to a gorgeous bikini-clad supermodel. She turns on her heels right back to the Pearly Gates, steam coming from her ears enraged, furiously dragging her bum off his feet, & well, bouncing along his bum as he’s dragged along. She barges to the front of the line & starts to yell at St. Peter - “WTF he was no saint; how the 'eck did he get a supermodel to spend eternity with” on & on with her ranting when St. Peter can finally get a word in edgewise he calmly explains that she has it all wrong…& that her husband is the supermodel’s penance!
And men don’t get penances? I mean, the joke falls flat to me in the sense that it just says he’s bad, too, but there’s no reference to punishment for him. I mean, yeah, sure, the supermodel is bad enough to have to do some penance, but we don’t get any details about what actually makes this unpleasant to the guy. Which may give us a “guy joke” where even in being undesirable himself, the husband wins (and the wife loses). I guess not all guys win (like the guy handcuffed to her, presumably), but yeah, totally unfunny from this woman’s perspective