Reality Check by Dave Whamond for September 18, 2021

I didn’t know Satan worked in an escrow office.

The devil is in the detail.

Hell for bureaucrats! ;D

I can’t sign this contract. There’s not enough fine print!

If he forgets to dot one “i” or cross one “t”, the demon takes the form away from him, tears it up and makes him do it all over, and over, and over…forever.

He satanly has, doesn’t he.

Presumably he doesn’t want to enter. But no doubt he can be made just as miserable outside as in.

Before you enter? Take your time….

Hell hath no fury like an unfulfilled bureaucrat.

Clever wordplay on the ‘Satan takes many forms’ fact. He even disguises himself as an Angel of Light (which he once was). Did you know that hell is only mentioned once in the Bible? And never as a place for humans. Nor, is satan on charge of it. He IS in charge of the world (for now), tho.

The Hell you say …!

And you’ve got an eternity to fill them out.

And get it right! We have checkers checking the checkers. It’s much the same as the recent vote recounts.

If you don’t you can’t stay?

After you finish the forms they spontaneously combust (because, you know, fire & brimstone) so you need to redo them.

I’m sure he’s in no hurry.

I wouldn’t trust him, so you best read all the fine print first. Remember a lot of people think Satan started out as a lawyer.

I assume you’re in Purgatory while you filling out the forms.

In Dante’s Inferno there’s the Vestibule of self-centered opportunists. Allowed neither in Hell or Heaven they must eternally envy every other fate. These dudes wish they were in Hell.

“Start with your W-4, then the 1040notEZ, then we’ll visit the auditor who will have more forms.