Secret to a Happy Marriage ( joke)

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> The Secret to a Happy Marriage

> >

> >There was once a man and woman who 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

> > shoebox and took it to his wife's bedside. She agreed that it was

> >time that he should know what was in the box.

> >

> >When he opened it, he found two crocheted doilies and a

> > stack of money totaling $25,000.

> >

> >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 doily.

> >

> > " The little old man was so moved, he had to fight back tears.

> >Only two precious doilies 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

> >doilies, but what about all of this money? Where did it come from? "

> >

> > " Oh, " she said, " that's the money I made from selling the doilies. "