A man named Greg once saw his bestie Sam answering a number with the name "Home" showing up on the display. Greg observed how animated and happy Sam became each time he picked up that call.
"So, what's this thing with 'Home', on your phone there?" Greg asked one time.
"Oh it's just my girlfriend," Sam promptly replied. "She is my home. And wherever she is, there is where my home is." And he followed that sentence with a grin so stupid that it demanded a suitable answer.
That was the last anyone ever heard of Sam. The man disappeared under mysterious circumstances. That night, Greg was in the kitchen muttering, "Gee, I wonder how their story would've turned out." He made a non-committal sound and sighed as he washed the blood off his hands.
A week later, when the girlfriend disappeared too, the police grew suspicious of Greg, who was the last-person-seen in both cases.
When they grilled him at the precinct, he spilled the beans by saying, "Sam may not have gone home, but home certainly went to him." And he followed that sentence with a laugh so raucous that rumour has it Greg was still laughing when he was thrown into a high-security mental asylum for the criminally insane.
Published on November 25, 2022 09:42