After being married for 50 years, I took a careful look at my wife one day and said, \u2018Fifty years ago, we had a cheap house, a junk car, slept on a sofa bed, and watched a 10-inch black and white TV, but I got to sleep with a hot 23-year-old girl every night. Now, I have a $500,000 home, a $45,000 car, a nice big bed, and a large-screen TV, but I\u2019m sleeping with a 69-year-old woman. It seems to me that you\u2019re not holding up your side of things.\u2019 I said it half-jokingly, half-testing my luck, expecting at least a mild protest\u2026 but there was a strange pause in the air that made me suddenly regret my honesty.<\/p>\n
My wife is a very reasonable woman. She didn\u2019t shout. She didn\u2019t argue. Instead, she just looked at me with that calm, knowing expression that usually means trouble is coming. Then she told me to go out and find a hot 23-year-old girl, and she would make sure that I would once again be living in a cheap house, driving a junk car, sleeping on a sofa bed, and watching a 10-inch black and white TV. Her voice was so steady, so certain, that for a moment I actually pictured it all happening exactly as she described. I quietly stopped talking. Aren\u2019t older women great? They know how to solve an old guy\u2019s problems.\u201d<\/p>\n
An old married couple went camping.<\/p>\n
An old married couple was going camping. They pitched their tent under the stars and fell asleep, surrounded by an eerie stillness of the wilderness. In the middle of the night, the wife suddenly woke her husband and said, \u201cLook at the stars and tell me what you see.\u201d Her tone had a strange urgency, as if she had noticed something he hadn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
The husband replied, rubbing his eyes, \u201cI see millions and millions of stars.\u201d He paused, squinting deeper into the night sky as if trying to find meaning hidden between them.<\/p>\n
The wife said, \u201cAnd what do you make of that?\u201d<\/p>\n
The husband replied, \u201cWell, if there are millions of stars and even some of them have planets, it\u2019s quite likely there are some planets like Earth out there. And if there are a few planets like Earth out there, there might also be life.\u201d He seemed quite pleased with his thoughtful conclusion, waiting for approval.<\/p>\n
There was a slight pause before the wife said, \u201cNo, honey, it means that somebody stole our tent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After being married for 50 years, I took a careful look at my wife one day and said, \u2018Fifty years ago, we had a cheap house, a junk car, slept on a sofa bed, and watched a 10-inch black and white TV, but I got to sleep with a hot 23-year-old girl every night. Now, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":24492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tales"],"yoast_head":"\n