A traveling salesman was driving along a lonely highway one cold, snowy, December night when, to his misfortune his car broke down. He remembered seeing a Monestary about half a mile back, so he got out, put on his thickest coat and trudged back to the Monestary.
When he got there, he knocked, and one of the Monks opened the door. He explained to them his problem and asked if he could stay the night, then call a mechanic in the morning. They said "Of course" and took him upstairs to the room he would be staying at.
The room was gorgeous, with a huge confortable bed and even a fireplace. The salesman thanked the Monks a dozen times for taking him in.
He fell into a nice, cozy sleep at midnight. But, a couple of hours later, he was awakened by a terrible, blood-curdling scream, coming from the room down the hall.
The salesman jumped out of bed, opened the door, and ran to the room where the scream had come from. He opened the door, and inside the room was a large wooden chest. The scream occured again, and it was coming from the box. But when the salesman went to open the chest, a few Monks rushed into the room and stopped him.
"WHAT is in that box?!" The salesman asked them.
"We can't tell you, for you are not a Monk." They replied.
The salesman begged them to tell him, but they resisted, explaining only Monks could know.
Finally, in the morning, the salesman called a mechanic and was back on the road again.
But as the months went by, it really began bothering him. What was in that box? In fact, it bugged the salesman so much, that a few years later he actually quit his job and became a Monk, all just to know what was in that chest.
Ironically, he was located to the same Monestary he had stayed years before. On his first day there, he asked "Well, I'm a Monk now, can you show me what's in that chest?"
So the Monks took him to the same room that horrible scream had come from and there was the same wooden chest.
He stood by and watched with anxiousness as the Monks unlocked the box, opened the lid, and in the chest, there was...
<SORRY, CAN'T TELL YOU, YOU'RE NOT A MONK>