I thought this was very appropriate for all the chickies with shdh's lately
THE SILENT TREATMENT
A man and his wife were having some problems at home and
were giving each other the silent treatment.
The next week, the man realized that he would need his wife to
wake him at 5:00 AM for an early morning business flight to
Chicago. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (AND
LOSE), he wrote on a piece of paper, "Please wake me at 5:00 AM."
The next morning the man woke up, only to discover it was 9:00AM
and that he had missed his flight. Furious, he was about to go and see
why his wife hadn't awakened him, when he noticed a piece
of paper by the bed. The paper said, "It is 5:00 AM. Wake up."
Men are not equipped for these kinds of contests.