Sam’s Final Exam

Sam Goldberg was a student at the University of Oklahoma. He was from Oklahoma City and active in its small Jewish community so he wanted to stay close to home.

At the end of his first semester he approached one of his profs with a problem.

“I’m sorry sir,” said Sam. “But I won’t be available for the final exam because of a funeral.”

"No problem," the professor told him. "Make it up the following week." That week Sam came and again he couldn't take the test due to another funeral.

"You'll have to take the test early next week," the professor insisted. "I can't keep postponing it."

"I can take the test next week if no one dies," Sam said.

The professor became suspicious. "How can you have so many people you know pass away in three weeks?"

"I don't know any of these people," Sam said. "But I'm the person on the chevra kadisha (burial society)."