A few
months ago, there was an opening with the CIA for an assassin.
These highly classified positions
are hard to fill, and there's a lot of testing and background checks involved
before you can even be considered for the position. After sending some
applicants through the background checks, training and testing, they narrowed
the possible choices down to 2 men and a woman, but only one position was
available. The day came for the final test to see which person would get the
extremely secretive job.
The CIA men administering the test
took one of the men to a large metal door and handed him a gun. "We must
know that you will follow your instructions no matter what the
circumstances", they explained. "Inside this room, you will find your
wife sitting in a chair. Take this gun and kill her."
The man got a shocked look on his
face and said "You can't be serious! I could never shoot my own
wife!"
"Well", says the CIA
man, "you're definitely not the right man for this job then."
So they bring the second man to
the same door and hand him a gun. "We must know that you will follow
instructions no matter what the circumstances", they explained to the
second man. "Inside you will find your wife sitting in a chair. Take this
gun and kill her." The second man looked a bit shocked, but nevertheless
took the gun and went in the room.
All was quiet for about 5 minutes,
then the door opened. The man came out of the room with tears in his eyes.
"I tried to shoot her, I just couldn't pull the trigger and shoot my wife.
I guess I'm not the right man for the job."
"No" the CIA man
replied, "You don't have what it takes. Take your wife and go home."
Now they're down to the woman left
to test. Again they lead her to the same door to the same room and hand her the
same gun. "We must be sure that you will follow instructions no matter
what the circumstances, this is your final test. Inside you will find your
husband sitting in a chair. Take this gun and kill him."
The woman took the gun and opened
the door. Before the door even closed all the way, the CIA heard the gun start
firing. One shot after another for 13 shots. Then all hell broke loose in the
room. They heard screaming, crashing, banging on the walls. This went on for
several minutes, then all went quiet. The door opened slowly, and there stood
the woman. She wiped the sweat from her brow and said "You guys didn't
tell me the gun was loaded with blanks! I had to beat him to death with the
chair!"