One day St. Peter was standing at the pearly gates checking people into heaven. The first man comes up and St. Peter “What did you do on earth?” The man says “I was a doctor.” St. Peter says “That’s wonderful…go right in.” The next man comes up and St. Peter says “What did you do on earth?” The man tells St. Peter that he was a research scientist and St. Peter says “that’s wonderful. Go right in.” As the third man comes up St. Peter says to him “And what did you do on earth?” The third man says “I was a musician.” St. Peter says “That’s great. Follow the fence around to the right, use the staff entrance and take the freight elevator up to the third floor….”
The kicker about this joke is how true it is–musicians know this well. In the ’80s I was playing tons of private parties and had gone through this routine 100′s of times.
Years back, I took a friend out for a birthday dinner at a fancy hotel in Santa Monica. I was driving into the hotel area so we could check in, when she said to me, “Where are we going?” I found this to be an odd question, when I looked around and saw that I was at the loading dock! Habits, habits, habits!
