A soldier was running down the road, completely out of breath, when he spotted a nun walking nearby.

He rushed over to her and pleaded, “Sister, please, may I hide under your skirt? I promise I’ll explain everything later.”

The nun hesitated for a moment, then agreed.

The soldier quickly disappeared beneath her long skirt.

Only seconds later, two military police officers came running up.

“Sister,” one of them asked, “have you seen a soldier come this way?”

The nun calmly pointed down the road.

“Yes. He ran in that direction.”

The officers thanked her and hurried away.

Once they were out of sight, the soldier crawled out from beneath the nun’s skirt and breathed a huge sigh of relief.

“I can’t thank you enough, Sister,” he said. “You see, I don’t want to go to S*ria.”

The nun nodded sympathetically.

“I understand completely.”

The soldier smiled, then added, “I hope I’m not being rude, Sister, but you have a great pair of legs!”

The nun replied:

“If you had looked a little higher, you would have seen a great pair of balls…. I don’t want to go to S*ria either.”