Our guru told us this joke when my mom told him I got scared by a stray cat at night while taking out the garbage.

There was this one cowardly guy who was scared of many things and once he took a journey to another town. While at it, he came upon a tunnel. He quickly got scared of the tunnel and started to look around for help. He saw a person standing by and asks him for help. The person says he's a guide and you came to right person. So, they enter the tunnel with the guide leading the way. After a while, they came across spiders and the coward got scared. "Don't worry, there are rats upfront. Rats will eat all the spiders" says the guide. The coward with full courage moved forward slowly and after few meters the rats start appearing. "Rats! I'm also scared of rats" said the coward and again the guide comforts him that there is snake upfront and snake will eat all the rats. The coward now has come so far now that he cannot return back so he thought it is better to move forward. Both walk for minutes and suddenly big snakes start crawling. "Snakes! I'm most scared of snakes" said the coward. Again, the guide tries to comfort the coward and says "Don't worry, a bit ahead there are ghost of dead ones. They will kill the snakes." The coward asks " What if the ghosts don't kill the snakes?". Then, the guide says "I don't know. I was eaten by snakes a while ago. So.."