A traveling salesman from New York was traveling through Georgia around Christmas time and stopped at a convenience store next to a church.

He told the lady cashier that the nativity scene next door was really beautiful but he couldn't understand why the three wise men had firemens helmets on.

The lady said "that's the trouble with you yankees, you never read your Bibles or you would know."

He said "maam, I have read my Bible through three times and I have never seen anything to explain this."

She said, " I will show you" and opened up her bible. " It says right here that the three wise men came from a "far".