Twenty Dollars

"Twenty Dollars"

On their wedding night, the young bride
approached her new husband and asked for
$20.00 for their first lovemaking encounter.
In his highly aroused state, her husband
readily agreed.

This scenario was repeated each time they
made love, for more than 30 years, with him
thinking that it was a cute way for her to afford
new clothes and other incidentals that she
needed.

Arriving home around noon one day, she was
surprised to find her husband in a very drunken
state. During the next few minutes, he explained
that his employer was going through a process
of corporate downsizing, and he had been let go.

It was unlikely that, at the age of 59, he'd be able
to find another position that paid anywhere near
what he'd been earning, and therefore, they were
financially ruined.

Calmly, his wife handed him a bankbook which
showed more than thirty years of steady deposits
and interest totaling nearly $1 million.Then she
showed him certificates of deposits issued by
the bank which were worth over $2 million, and
informed him that they were one of the largest
depositors in the bank.

She explained that for the more than three
decades she had "charged" him for sex, these
holdings had multiplied and these were the
results of her savings and investments.

Faced with evidence of cash and investments
worth over $3 million, her husband was so
astounded he could barely speak, but finally
he found his voice and blurted out, "If I'd had
any idea what you were doing, I would have
given you all my business!"
Received on Tue Aug 1 06:49:48 2006