The mayor of a local town, in urgent need to use the bathroom, walks into a local bar. The bar is jumping with loud music and lively conversation, but every few minutes a bell rings. Every time the bell rings, the bar crowd bursts into loud whoops and applause, but when they see the mayor enter, the place becomes absolutely quiet.

The mayor walks over to the bartender and asks, "Can you please tell me where your bathroom is?"

"Sure, but I have to tell you sir, inside there are some naughty verses in the third cubicle and you being the mayor and a good man we wouldn't want you to see it and be scandalized by those lines."

"No problem, as you rightly thought I'm not that kind of man, I just won't use the concerned cubicle," said the mayor.

The bartender then shows the mayor to the far side of the bar where the bathroom is located. After a short while, the mayor comes out of the bathroom and the bar crowd pauses only long enough to give him a rousing cheer. Perplexed he goes over to the bartender and asks, "I'm puzzled. Why did they cheer for me as I came out of the bathroom just now?"

"Well, sir, it's because you just proved that you are as human and hypocritical like all of us," said the bartender. "May I pour you a drink?"

"No thank you I don't drink, but I'm still puzzled," says the mayor.

"You see, sir," chuckles the bartender, "every time somebody opens the door of that third cubicle where those naughty words are written, a bell starts ringing outside. And if you noticed sir, there were no words written inside, we just want to see how people behave when they think no one is watching! Now, what do you say to that drink? Or would you rather go home and have one alone?"

What if we had a bell that rang every time we did something wrong?

"Ding, dong, ding, dong!"

"Why's the bell ringing?"

"That altar boy sitting in the exam hall just glanced at his neighbour's paper!"

"Ding, dong, ding, dong!"

"What's the problem, hey it's that girl next door whose bell is ringing!"

"Yes, she's managed to hack the Facebook account of her pretty sister and sent out some lewd messages from there!"

Isn't it time we become accountable in our private lives?

Because even if a bell doesn't ring, even if people outside the bathroom didn't know what the mayor did inside, still Someone up there knows, and you my friend are accountable to God!