Subject: The Trunk
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Tue Oct 16 2001 - 02:24:28 EDT
"The Trunk"
One day, a newly married farmer goes to the attic
of his new home to put a few things in storage.
While there, he notices a large steamer trunk sitting
in the corner. He tries to open it and finds it is locked.
Puzzled, he calls his new bride up to the attic and
asks her about it. She tells him that it is hers and
only contains some personal things. He accepts her
answer and eventually forgets the matter.
Three years later, while cleaning out the attic, the man
runs across the trunk again and asks his wife what's
in it. She again tells him that it contains only personal
things, but this time he is more persistent. So she sits
him down and reminds him that she makes him happy
when he's feeling down, that she keeps the house
meticulously clean, that she cooks him fantastic meals
seven days a week, and that she gives him all the sex
he wants, anytime he wants it. Then she tells him if he
is happy with all of those things, that he should forget
about the trunk because she will not talk about it. "Fair
enough," says the husband, and he finishes cleaning
out the attic.
On their 25th wedding anniversary, he pulls the trunk
down the stairs, into the middle of the living room floor,
and calls to his wife. "Honey," he says, "We've been
married for 25 years and I think it's time we had a
heart-to-heart talk. "What the hell is in that trunk?"
The wife protests reminding him once again about the
clean house, the good food and the great sex. "I don't
care," he tells her. "After 25 years we ought to be able
to talk about anything. Now open this damn trunk." She
takes a key from a chain hanging around her neck and
opens the trunk.
Inside are three ears of corn and 25 thousand dollars
in cash. "Hell!" shouts the husband. "What's going
on here? Where did all this come from?"
"Well, sweetie," replies the wife, "you said we could
talk, so I'll tell you what you wanted to know. Over
the years. I've tried to stay faithful to you, but I wasn't
always successful. Every time that I cheated on you,
I put an ear of corn into the trunk."
The husband could not believe the shocking confession.
He mulled it over in his mind for a few moments and
finally said, "All right, I admit I'm not too thrilled about
this, but I did say we should be honest with each other,
so I guess I can live with three ears of corn in 25 years.
But where did all the money come from?"
"Well," she replies, "Whenever the trunk got full,
I sold the corn."
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