On my first day in prison, my cellmate said to me “If you ever come close to me, I’ll skin you alive. When we’re sleeping, you don’t touch me. You hear me? Don’t ever talk to me, either.”
“Great.” I thought, “First day in here and I’m already married.”
In the early 1930’s, a farmer and his wife went to a fair. The farmer was fascinated by the airplanes and asked a pilot how much a ride would cost. “$10 for three minutes,” replied the pilot.
“That is too much,” said the farmer.
The pilot thought for a second and then said, “I will make you a deal. If you and your wife ride for three minutes without uttering a sound, the ride will be free. However, if you make a sound, you will have to pay $10.”
The farmer and his wife agreed and went for a wild ride. After they landed, the pilot said to the farmer, “I want to congratulate you for not making a sound. You are a brave man.”
“Maybe so,” said the farmer, “but I have to tell you, I almost screamed when my wife fell out.”
“Yeah, I’ll never forget the time we took this trip to Del Rio, Texas…”, when my wife chimed in with, “Oh, no sweetie. It wasn’t Del Rio, it was Galveston. Don’t you remember? We stopped at that nice bed and breakfast?”
“Galveston? Really? Okay, well, it doesn’t matter. Anyway, we took this trip to Galveston and we were driving our old Buick…”
She piped up again. “Darling, no. Don’t you remember? It wasn’t the Buick – we took the Bronco! Remember? You spilled your coffee on the seats?”
“Was it? I thought it was… okay, again, it doesn’t matter. So, okay, we took the Bronco to Galveston. And on the way, we stopped at this Cracker Barrel restaurant…”
“Sweetheart,” she interrupted again, “Oh, your memory is so bad! It wasn’t a Cracker Barrel. It was a Denny’s!”
I’d finally had enough. I turned to her and I said, “Woman, that is the last time you’re going to bust in to my story and correct me. I am the MAN of the family, and what I say is LAW! If you interrupt me just one more time, I’m going to smack you into tomorrow!”
You know, I didn’t see that woman again for five days. For five days I didn’t see that woman.
On the sixth day, I could see her a little bit out of my left eye…