Vegas cockroach trap

There is a very plain, household method of trapping cockroaches. Vegas Cockroach Trap . Wiki explains the method :-
"An inexpensive roach trap can easily be made from a deep smooth-walled jar with some roach food inside, placed with the top of the jar touching a wall or with sticks leading up to the top, so that the roaches can reach the opening. Once inside, they cannot climb back out. An inch or so of water or stale beer (by itself a roach attractant) will ensure they drown. The method works well with the American cockroach but less so with the German cockroach. A bit of Vaseline can be smeared on the inside of the jar to enhance slipperiness. The method is sometimes called the "Vegas roach trap" after it was popularised by a Las Vegas-based TV station. This version of the trap uses coffee grounds and water"

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A's soul met B's soul on doors of another world transport station (readers are allowed to have their share of imagination here). They were queued alongwith fellow souls to be allotted a place in hell or heaven.  A and B entered a into a friendly chit chat (you are allowed to debate on social skills of soul, here..). The only norms that I have followed here, is keeping souls free of gender discrimination and form/shape differences.

Intending to start a conversation, A asked B "So.. How did you get here??" B, although in no mood of talking, yet felt obliged to answer the question , good manners you see... "Oh nothing, really.. I used to live on that tiny planet down there.. you see that one.. the one covered with grey clouds.. part them.. yeah you see some brown land, some black water.. that is it.. It is called Earth there.. I was born there.. One day from distance, I saw a place which appeared to have some better food, a glamorous location, some free beer, saw several others spending their lifetime there. So I left all that I had with me, and moved to the place. When I reached there, I realized I was a fool to fall in the trap. It was no better than the place I used to live in, infact worse, and others had not spent their lifetime in that place.. They had been killed while trying to rescue themselves, just the way I was killed"

A exclaimed "Hola Amigo!!! Even I died the same way..Wow.. we ARE soul mates!! Its a pity I did not come across you on Earth. Hope to see you in next life! "

As the queue advanced, and many more joined in, A got engaged in conversations with other souls. Meanwhile B brooded over his condition. Probably he was still left with a dash of  moh-maya sprinkled on his soul, which was to be purified in the next decisive step, of hell or heaven. A rebuked him "Hey, you are no longer online now.. You should RELAX! Come join me for a song ". And it was no longer than a minute, when A had gathered a mob, and they began chanting " Sadda haq.. aetthe rakh.. mann se jeena ya marr jaana..aaaaa....".

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 We are back on earth. Ground realities. Laxman's wife was beating her chest, at the suicide of her husband " arey kuchh batate bhi to nahi thhe.. bass apne mein hi pareshaan rehte thhe.. kuchh bola hota kabhi.. arey kuchh bol kar to jaate.." She wailed , and other women of neighborhood, stuffed cloth in their mouths sobbing in an inconsolabe fashion. Every body thought.. "poor poor widow.. and how will she get money.. oh yess she has rich brothers. "
Men thought "She is young and beautiful, what a waste!" Women thought " Oh I better stop my husband from visiting this house frequently now".
And Laxman's wife thought " I was better off back in our small town.. So many men drooling after me.. and father married me to this SOFTWARE ENGINEER. It was when I came to city I realised that he owned a cyber cafe.. He never loved me..  was busy chasing his dreams.. Earning money , taking loans, burdening himself with EMIs,and thinking ways to earn more money. Did not even let me have children.. His father had such good shop back in town, and he thought it to be a bad business, only to come and own a cyber cafe here!! What is the use.. Why should I lead a love-less life??Why???? And now this house will be sold, and all my jewels. Any ways I never asked for jewels, or palatial house.. Maybe I would get some peace when I go back to my brother's house.. Will take up some job there.."

Two blocks away, a maid swept off dead cockroaches from the trap-jar (Vegas Cockroach Trap) which her malkin had set to get rid of cockroaches.


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God's assitance sat on the door of hell/heaven.

Assistance to A - "Laxman, you have had your share of miseries and hardships and tensions. You will go to heaven".

Assistance to B - "You stupid cockroach,you were given a peaceful life, but you killed yourself out of  greed. Now you will take birth on earth again as a human, and become a preacher, teaching the world about malefic greed, suffer hardships of being a human-being, will get involved in a sex-scandals, as most preachers do, and die. Come back to us then, will decide your fate."