A Chicago cab driver reaches the Pearly Gates and announces his presence to St. Peter, who looks him up in his Big Book. Upon reading the entry for the cabbie, St. Peter invites him to pick up a silk robe and a golden staff and to proceed into Heaven.

A Southside priest is next in line behind the cabby and has been watching these proceedings with interest.

He announces himself to St. Peter. Upon scanning the priest's entry in the Big Book, St. Peter furrows his brow and says, "Okay, we'll let you in, but take that cloth robe and wooden staff."

The priest is astonished and replies, "But I am a man of the cloth. You gave that cab driver a gold staff and a silk robe. Surely I rate higher than a cabbie!?"

St. Peter responded matter-of factly:

"This is heaven and, up here, we are interested in results. When you were at the pulpit, people slept. When the cabbie drove his taxi, people prayed."