A man and woman had been married for more than 60 years.
They had shared everything.
They had talked about everything.
They had kept no secrets from each other except that the little old woman had a shoebox in the top of her closet that she had cautioned her husband never to open or ask her about.
For all of these years, he had never thought about the box, but one day the little old woman got very sick and the doctor said she would not recover.
In trying to sort out their affairs, the little old man took down the shoe box and took it to his wife’s bedside.
She agreed that it was a time that he should know what was in the box.
When he opened it, he found two crocheted dolls and a stack of money totalling $95,000.
He asked her about the contents.
‘ When we were to be married,’ she said, ‘ my grandmother told me the secret of a happy marriage was to never argue. She told me that if I ever got angry with you, I should just keep quiet and crochet a doll.’
The little old man was so moved; he had to fight back tears.
Only two precious dolls were in the box.
She had only been angry with him two times in all those years of living and loving.
He almost burst with Happiness.
‘Honey,’ he said,
‘that explains the doll, but what about all of this money? Where did it come from?’
‘Oh,’ she said,
‘that’s the money I made from selling the dolls.’
--Little Johnny comes to mommy--
Little Johnny comes to mommy and says:
“Mommy, I want a dog.”
“No way!” says the mother.
“Dogs are dirty, messy, leave hair everywhere and smell!”
Johnny says again: “I want a dog!”
Mother: “I already said there won’t be any dog here. Wish anything else.”
Little Johnny thinks for a minute and then says:
“Fair enough, mom. I wanna play a mother and a father.”
Mother, thinking it kinda sounds like incest, thinks about it for a minute and then says:
“OK. One cannot hurt. We can do that, Johnny.”
Little Johnny looks at her and continues:
“Go get a bath, put on some nice clothes and wait for me in your bedroom.”
Mom does as Johnny wants and patiently waits for her son.
Suddenly little Johnny storms into the room, sees his mother laying on the bed and screams:
“What are you just lying around here, old woman? Put on some clothes! We are buying our son a dog!”
