Stay of Execution

Date: 02-03-2010 9:35 am (14 years ago) | Author: Sheenor
- at 2-03-2010 09:35 AM (14 years ago)
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> An attorney arrived home late, after a very tough day
> trying to get a stay
> of execution.
>
> His last minute plea for clemency to the governor had
> failed and he was
> feeling worn out and depressed.
>
> As soon as he walked through the door at home, his wife
> started on him
> about, "What time of night to be getting home is this?
> Where have you been?
> Dinner
> is cold and I'm not reheating it."
>
> And on and on and on. Too shattered to play his usual role
> in this familiar
> ritual, he poured himself a shot of whiskey and headed off
> for a long hot
> soak in the bathtub, pursued by the predictable sarcastic
> remarks as he
> dragged himself up the stairs.
>
> While he was in the bath, the phone rang. The wife answered
> and was told
> that her husband's client, James Wright, had been granted a
> stay of
> execution after all. Wright would not be hanged tonight.
>
> Finally realizing what a terrible day he must have had, she
> decided to go
> upstairs and give him the good news.
>
> As she opened the bathroom door, she was greeted by the
> sight of her
> husband, bent over naked, drying his legs and feet.
>
> "They're not hanging Wright tonight," she said.
>
> He whirled around and yelled, "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WOMAN,
> DON'T YOU EVER
> STOP?!"
>
>
>
> -------------------------


Posted: at 2-03-2010 09:35 AM (14 years ago) | Hero