This is one of the many incredible stories about pensioners. Once upon a time there lived an old couple. When they died they ascended straight to heaven, since - as most Bulgarian pensioners - they were pious and righteous in every way.

You can imagine their surprise when they saw green glades, the sun shining, the birds singing, lots of food piled up on tables reaching as far as the horizon. No queues, no central heating system, no tax officers....

Tut-tutting, the pensioners took a walk, had a drink and a good feed, laid in the sun and just as they stood under an olive tree the old man slapped his wife hard on the face.

"What did you do that for?", the woman started.

"Well, don't you know? If it was not for your diets of oatmeal porridge we could have come to heaven five years earlier!"

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