My wife and I were sitting at a table at her school reunion and she kept staring at a drunken man swigging his drink as he sat alone at a nearby table.
I asked her, ""Do you know him?""
""Yes"", she sighed. ""He's my old boyfriend. I understand he took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago and I hear he hasn't been sober since.""
""My God!"" I said, ""Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?""
And then the fight started...
My wife sat down next to me as I was flipping channels. She asked ""What's on TV?""
I said, ""Dust.""
And then the fight started...
That morning I had arranged to go fishing so I went into the garage, hooked the boat up to the van and proceeded to back out.
However, the wind was blowing 50mph and there was a torrential downpour going on so I pulled back into the garage and turned on the radio - to discover that the weather would be bad all day.
I went back into the house, quietly undressed, slipped back into bed and cuddled up to my wife's back - now with a different anticipation.
I whispered, ""The weather out there is terrible.""
My loving wife replied, ""Yes, and can you believe my stupid husband is out fishing in it?"" And then the fight started...