You Have To Be A Monk To Find Out.

This is a long one, it's a good campfire story.

One day a tourist was driving down a road when suddenly his rental car breaks down outside of a monastery. He has no where to go so he decides to ask the monastery if he can stay the night. The monks kindly allow him to stay the night in a spare room, they also offer him food and allow him to bathe. Everything was fine until that night, when he was trying to sleep he kept on hearing a ticking noise coming from somewhere in the monastery. He decided it was nothing and went to bed. The next morning he was having breakfast and he asks the monks what the noise was. All the monks replied by saying, "You have to be a monk to find out." After hearing this all morning he decides to ask the monks how he can become one of them. The head of the monastery says that he has to count all the grains of sand in the world and then he will be allowed to become a monk. Being a dedicated man he decides to accept the challenge and spent the next 25 years of his life counting all the grains of sand on the Earth. He returns to the monastery and gives the head of the monastery the answer. The head then accepts him into the monastery and tells him where he can find the source of the noise. The man reaches a set of wooden doors, he proceeds to open them and walk through. He can hear the noise getting louder as he advances through a set of bronze and then silver doors. Finally he reaches a set of pure gold doors, he opens them and finds out what the noise was.

What's the noise?

You have to be a monk to find out.