Man: “What you have prepared to eat today?”
Wife: “Nothing.”
Man: “But you did nothing yesterday.”
Wife : “I made it for two days.”
Two women were discussing marriage, and one said,
“We’ve been married twenty-five years, and every night my husband has complained about the food. Not one night without complaining about the food.”
The other woman said, “That’s awful. Doesn’t it bother you?”
The first one said, “Not in the slightest.”
Said the other woman, “You must be a saint!”
To which, the first woman replied, “No. Why should I object? Many people don’t like the food they cook.”
A bricklayer at my husbands construction job routinely complained about the contents of his lunch box.
“I’m sick and tired of getting the same old thing!” he shouted one day. “Tonight I’ll set my wife straight.”
The next day the men could hardly wait until lunch time to hear what happened.
“You bet I told her off,” the bricklayer boasted. “I said, ‘No more of the same old stuff. Be creative!’ We had one heck of a fight, but I got my point across.”
He had indeed. In front of an admiring audience, he opened his lunch box to find that his wife had packed a coconut- and a hammer.
An overweight business associate of mine decided it was time to shed some excess pounds.
He took his new diet seriously, even changing his driving route to avoid his favourite bakery.
One morning, however, he arrived at work carrying a gigantic coffee cake. We all scolded him, but his smile remained cherubic.
“This is a very special coffee cake,” he explained.
“I accidentally drove by the bakery this morning, and there in the window was a host of goodies. I felt this was no accident, so I prayed, ‘Lord, if you want me to have one of those delicious coffee cakes, let me have a parking place directly in front of the bakery.’
“And sure enough,” he continued, “the eighth time around the block, there it was!”
