The other night I was invited out on the town with “the boys.” I told my wife I would be back before midnight. I promised.
Well, the hours passed and the beer was going down WAY too easy. At around 3 a.m, drunk as a skunk, I headed for home. Just as I got in the door, the cuckoo clock in the hall started up and cuckooed three times. Quickly I realized she’d probably wake up so I cuckooed another nine times. I was really proud of myself having a quick, witty solution, even when smashed – to escape a possible conflict with the wife.
The next morning my wife asked me what time I got in, and I told her 12 o’clock. She didn’t seem disturbed at all. Whew. Got away with that one.
Then she told me that we needed a new cuckoo clock. When I asked her why, she said, “Well, it cuckooed 3 times last night, then said oh shit, cuckooed four more times, cleared its throat, cuckooed another three times, giggled, cuckooed twice more and then farted.”