Posted on 03/15/2009 7:14:23 PM PDT by Loyalist
Builder Gary Bates was so fed up with his wife's nagging he put an ad in Trade-It magazine and tried to sell her!
After getting a tongue lashing from wife Donna, Gary placed a spur of the moment ad in the Trade-It magazine. He described her as "very high maintenance – some rust."
To Gary's astonishment, he received a host of calls from men offering to take her off his hands.
"I didn't think anyone would ring up but I've had loads of people calling up about her," said Gary, of Orchard Avenue, Ebley, near Stroud.
The 38-year-old was watching a TV soap when Donna, 40, suddenly piped up about something, he said.
"She was nagging me for doing something so I just thought I'd put an ad in to get rid of her," said self-employed builder Gary.
He got at least six or seven calls before Donna rumbled what was going on. When he told her what he'd done Donna gave him "a bit of an ear-bashing" for it.
Gary added: "She's seen the funny side of it now." But he'd better watch out because Donna, who works for City Plumbing in Gloucester, is planning to get her own back.
She said: "I accepted it as the joke it was. If you take offence at something like that you shouldn't really be married, should you?"
The couple, who wed last June, have children from previous marriages. Donna is mum to James, 20 and Oliver, 14 while Gary has two daughters, Jessica, four, and Bethany, three, who live with their mum.
No comment.
Didn’t some woman do this as a joke once, and got like a thousand offers for her husband? Or maybe it was an urban legend.
Read this.
Cheers!
Cheers!
Wife: What are you up to, you no good thing..."
Husband: "Oh, nothing, light of my life..."
Believe me, he should’ve gone with the high bid...
Men nag just as much as women do.
Just goes to show you, one man’s trash is another mans treasure........
Paging Mr. Clinton, Mr. Clinton to the advertising desk please.
"HARCOURT! WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO!"
Remember the Rodney Dangerfield joke: “How’s your wife?” “Compared to what?”
I offered $10,000 cash to a fella if he’d marry my ex. She would’nt do it because the alimony would stop. I even tried to shame her. I told her she was so ugly and mean that nobody would ever marry her. She got all huffy, but thought better of losing her alimony.
He would have done better if he had used the term “constant encouragement”.
Perfect.
I heard the same joke with Bill Clinton getting razorback piglets for Hillary and Cheslea.
“Builder Gary Bates ....”
Is he a Master builder now?
Lemme guess: second from right?
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