Billie: The Sheltons' children threw them a sixty-fifth anniversary party and things got out of hand.

Mr. Sheldon: I didn't know she was gonna to be there.

Harry: Sixty-fifth anniversary?

Mrs. Sheldon: That's lead. If I had a gun, I'd give Mr. Shelton a little present.

Harry: Pardon the presumption, but I'm getting the impression that you two lived through sixty-five years of marital...

Mr. Sheldon: Agony.

Harry: Thanks. Why?

Mrs. Sheldon: We were waiting for the children to die.

Mr. Sheldon: Aw, not that we wanted them to die, of course.

Harrye: Of course.

Mrs. Sheldon: It's just that divorce can be so damaging. We were only thinking of the boys.

Harry: The boys?

Mr. Sheldon: Little Freddie will be sixty-four in April.

Mrs. Sheldon: And the baby just retired. This would kill him.

Harry: I have no reason to doubt that.

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