Some people tend to cover up the truth when they show up in
public with a black eye, broken arm or using crutches, and then try to
explain what happened.
Elaborate stories are concocted, but nearly every time the truth comes
out, sometimes quite soon, sometimes years later.
TRUE STORY #1:
There was this young couple
who had a terrific argument one morning before leaving for work. The wife
couldn't get her dress zipped up in back, so she backed up to her husband
and motioned for him to zip up her zipper. "I'll show you zipping", he
thought, and briskly whipped it up and down the slide till it broke. He
had to cut her out of her favorite dress, which didn't make her happier
with him. They went their separate ways to work, both boiling mad at each
other.
The wife did a slow burn all day. When she got home that evening, she
walked through the garage and saw her husband under the car fixing something,
with only his legs sticking out. She decided her moment of REVENGE had
come.
She leaned over, grabbed his pants zipper, and whipped it up and down.
Quite contented, she walked into the kitchen, where she found her husband
standing by the sink. Sheepishly, she asked him, "Who is in the garage,
under the car?" She was told it was a neighbor who had come over to help
work on the car.
The acutely embarrassed wife asked her husband to help explain the
situation to the neighbor, and they both returned to the garage. They asked
him to come out from under the car, but he didn't respond.
When they finally dragged him out, he was unconscious and bleeding,
from slamming his head into the underside of the car each time he got zipped
by surprise!!
TRUE STORY #2:
Our story is not complete
without telling of a man who could not give a convincing explanation about
his broken arm. He kept muttering something about trying to stick his arm
through his car window that he thought was down.
That was the public version, in private, he confessed that it happened
when his wife brought some potted plants indoors after they had been out
on the patio all day. A friendly garter snake had hidden in one of the
pots, and later slithered out across the floor, and the wife spotted it.
"I was in the bathtub when I heard her scream," he related. "I thought
she was being murdered, so I jumped out of the tub, and ran to help her.
I didn't even grab a towel. When I ran into the living room, she yelled
that a snake was under the couch. I got down on all fours to look for it,
and just then my dog came up from behind and 'cold-nosed' me. I guess I
thought it was the snake, and I fainted dead away.
"My wife thought I'd had a heart-attack and called for an ambulance.
I was still groggy when the medics arrived, and lifted me onto a stretcher.
Just as they were carrying me out, the snake came out from under the couch,
and obviously frightened one of the medics. He dropped his end of the stretcher.....and
that is when I broke my arm."
