Both worked full time,
but he never did anything around the house and certainly not any
housework. But one evening Mary arrived home from work to find the children
bathed, a load of wash in the washing machine and another in the
dryer, dinner on the stove and a beautifully set table, complete with
flowers.
She was astonished, and she immediately wanted to know what was going
on. It turned out that Charley, her husband, had read a magazine
article that suggested working wives would be more romantically
inclined if they weren't so tired from having to do all the housework
in addition to holding down a full-time job.
The next day, she couldn't wait to tell her friends in the office.
"How did it work out?" they asked.
"Well, it was a great dinner," Mary said. "Charley even cleaned up,
helped the kids with their homework, folded the laundry and put
everything away."
"But what about afterward?" her friends wanted to know.
"It didn't work out," Mary said. "Charley was too tired."
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