The Preacher's Secret

There was this preacher who couldn't keep his congregation awake on Sunday morning for love nor money. On any given Sunday, you would see at least half of the pews filled with sleeping people. So this preacher decided to go to a preacher seminar to learn how to keep his congregation awake. He gets to the seminar, and the preacher there is so dull that half of the preachers at the seminar start nodding off. When they are almost gone, the guest speaker stops and says, "I just want you to know that I've spent some of the happiest years of my life in the arms of another man's wife." Well, this surely wakes these sleepy preachers from their slumber, and when they are all good and awake, he looks at them and says, "It was my mother!"

So our boring preacher decides that this is a really good way to keep his congregation awake, and he can't wait to get home to try it on his unsuspecting group at home. The first Sunday comes, the people start to nod off, and he sees his opportunity, so he stops the sermon and announces, "I just want you to know that I've spent some of the happiest years of my life in the arms of another man's wife."
The people start to stir and then to stare, and when all eyes are on him, his mind goes blank, and he says, "And I can't for the life of me remember who she was!"

“And I can't for the life of me remember who she was!”