From my inbox:
Subject: Married Men
A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband is not in bed. She puts on her robe and goes downstairs to look for him. She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a hot cup of coffee in front of him. He appears to be in deep thought, just staring at the wall. She watches as he wiped a tear from his eye and takes a sip of his coffee.
‘What’s the matter, dear?’ she whispers as she steps into the room, ‘Why are you down here at this time of night?
The husband looks up from his coffee, ‘It’s the 20th Anniversary of the day we met’.
She can’t believe he has remembered and starts to tear up.
The husband continues, ‘Do you remember 20 years ago when we started dating? I was 18 and you were only 16,’ he says solemnly.
Once again, the wife is touched to tears thinking that her husband is so caring and sensitive. ‘Yes, I do’ she replies.
The husband pauses. The words were not coming easily. ‘Do you remember when your father caught us in the back seat of my car?’
‘Yes, I remember’ said the wife, lowering herself into a chair beside him.
The husband continued. ‘Do you remember when he shoved the shotgun in my face and said, ‘Either you marry my daughter or I will send you to prison for 20 years?’
‘I remember that, too’ she replied softly.
He wiped another tear from his cheek and said ‘I would have gotten out today.’
Sure wish we could make the rally tonight. JK's got a huge job to shoot tomorrow and isn't anywhere near set up for it.....so, we will have to try for April.
Looks like it is going to be a beautiful evening for a rally too!
My dad often mused that it was possible he and mom weren’t legally married.
“I don’t think your father had a license for that shotgun,” he said.