Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Joke: Domestic Issues
There was an attorney who got home late one evening after a very taxing day trying to get a stay of execution for a client, named Jack Wright, who was due to be hanged for murder at midnight. His last minute plea for clemency to the state governor had failed and he was feeling tired and depressed.
As soon as he got through the door his wife started with, "What time of night do you call this? Where the hell have you been?" and so on.
Too shattered to play his usual role in this familiar ritual, he went and poured
himself a very large whisky and headed off to the bathroom for a long hot soak --
pursued by the predictable sarcastic remarks.
While he was in the bath the phone rang, which the wife answered to be told that her husband's client had been granted his stay of execution after all. Realizing what a day he must have had, she relented and went upstairs to give him the good news. As she opened the bathroom door she was greeted by the sight of her husband's rear view as he bent naked over the bath pickin up his rubber duckie.
"They're not hanging Wright tonight," she said, at which he whirled round and screamed hysterically, "For crying out loud . . . don't you ever stop critisizing?"
As soon as he got through the door his wife started with, "What time of night do you call this? Where the hell have you been?" and so on.
Too shattered to play his usual role in this familiar ritual, he went and poured
himself a very large whisky and headed off to the bathroom for a long hot soak --
pursued by the predictable sarcastic remarks.
While he was in the bath the phone rang, which the wife answered to be told that her husband's client had been granted his stay of execution after all. Realizing what a day he must have had, she relented and went upstairs to give him the good news. As she opened the bathroom door she was greeted by the sight of her husband's rear view as he bent naked over the bath pickin up his rubber duckie.
"They're not hanging Wright tonight," she said, at which he whirled round and screamed hysterically, "For crying out loud . . . don't you ever stop critisizing?"
# posted by HST Overdrive @ 2:06 PM 
