A man’s love for alcohol landed him in hot water with his wife. She issued a stern warning: “Come home drunk again, and I’m leaving.” But, undeterred, he stumbled into his favorite pub and indulged in one too many.
As fate would have it, his night out ended with him drenched in vomit. Panicked, he confided in a friend, “If I go home like this, my wife will leave me for sure.” His quick-thinking friend devised a plan.
“Put a twenty-pound note in your jacket pocket,” he advised. “Tell your wife someone threw up on you, and they gave you the money for dry-cleaning.” The man followed the plan, hoping to salvage his situation.
Upon arriving home, his wife was livid. “I’m leaving you!” she declared. But the man pleaded his case, showing her the twenty-pound note. “Someone was sick on me, and they gave me this for the dry-cleaning bill.”
His wife’s skepticism turned to curiosity as she dug into his jacket pocket. Her expression changed from anger to shock when she pulled out not one, but two twenty-pound notes. “Why do you have two?” she asked, eyes narrowing.
The man’s swift response left her speechless: “Oh, the other one’s from the guy who shit in my pants.” The absurdity of the situation was too much, and the wife couldn’t help but laugh at her husband’s ridiculous excuse.
Though this tale is likely apocryphal, it showcases the creative lengths people will go to avoid trouble – and the unpredictable power of humor to diffuse even the most tense situations.
