Recently I received a joke through e-mail which tickled my funny bones. It went on like this;
A little girl asked her mother: ‘How did the human race begin?’ The mother answered: ‘God made Adam and Eve and they had children and all mankind was made.’ Two days later, the girl asked her father the same question: ‘How did the human race begin?’ The father answered: ‘Many years ago, there were monkeys from which the human race evolved.’ The confused girl returned to her mother and said: ‘Mom, how is it possible that you told me the human race was created by God and Dad said it developed from monkeys?’ The mother answered: ‘Well, dear, it’s very simple. I told you about my side of the family and your father told you about his.’
You hear many marriage jokes and you will be amused to find that the wife would have an upper hand in encounters with husband and the situation is often the same in real life too. A couple drove down a country road for several miles, not saying a word. An earlier discussion had led to an argument and neither of them wanted to concede their position. As they passed a barnyard of mules, goats, and pigs, the husband asked sarcastically: ‘Relatives of yours?’
‘Yep,’ the wife replied, “In-laws.”
In our society the wife-husband relationship is normally very intense. By and large the two are loyal to each other despite occasional tensions. Divorces and separations are not order of the day. But they are on the rise especially in urban areas where everyday tensions take toll of the mutual warmth. On the whole, however, the scenario is much better. There may be thousands of children marriages every year across the country. More than 90 per cent of them hold good in the long run. It is a healthy feature of our lives. The above-mentioned two verbal exchanges can take place in any nuclear family in particular in this country.
The one that follows is in the same category goes like this: A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment. Suddenly, the man realized that the next day, he would need his wife to wake him at 5 a.m. for an early morning business flight. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and lose), he wrote on a piece of paper, “Please wake me at 5 a.m.” He left it where he knew she would find it. The next morning, the man woke up, only to discover it was 9 a.m. and he had missed his flight. Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn’t wakened him, when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed. The paper said; “It is 5a.m. Wake up.”
Have you ever wondered why should women have the last word in all jokes? Probably that God might have created man before woman but there was always a rough draft before a masterpiece. Think over it on as you keep laughing.