The Ex Wife

[4.3LXJ]

People
stopped coming over to visit. Repairmen refused to
work in the house. The
maid quit.


Finally, they
couldn't take the stench any longer,
and decided they had to move, but a month later -
even though they'd cut
their price in half - they couldn't find a buyer
for such a stinky house.


Word got out,
and eventually even the local realtors
refused to return their calls.


Finally,
unable to wait any
longer for a purchaser, they had to borrow
a huge sum of money from
the bank to purchase a new
place.


Then the
ex-wife called the man and asked how things
were going. He told her
the saga of the
rotting house.

She
listened politely and said that she missed her old
home terribly and
would be willing to reduce her divorce settlement in
exchange for having
the house.


Knowing she
could have no idea how bad the smell
really was, he agreed on a price that was only 1/10
th of what the house
had been worth .... but only if she would sign the
papers that very day.


She agreed,
and within two hours his lawyers
delivered the completed
paperwork.


A week later
the man and his
girlfriend stood smiling as they watched the moving
company pack
everything to take to their new
home.


... And to
spite the ex-wife, they even took the
curtain rods!

[BlueXJ]

You missed the part where she sabatoged the house by stuffing the curtain rods. Not your best work 4.3L

[4.3LXJ]

You missed the part where she sabatoged the house by stuffing the curtain rods. Not your best work 4.3L

My bad, I will repost.


On the first
day, she sadly
packed her belongings Into boxes,
crates and
suitcases.



On the second
day, she had the movers come and
collect her things.



On
the third day, she sat down for the last time at
their beautiful
dining-room table, by candle-light; she put on
some soft background
music,
and feasted on a pound of shrimp, a jar of
caviar, and
a bottle of spring-water.



When
she'd finished, she went into each and every room
and deposited
a few half-eaten shrimps dipped in
caviar into the
hollow center of the curtain
rods. She then
cleaned up the kitchen and left.



On
the fourth day, the husband came back with his new
girlfriend, and at
first all was bliss. Then, slowly, the house began to
smell.



They
tried everything; cleaning, mopping, and airing-out
the place.



Vents
were checked for dead rodents, and carpets were steam
cleaned.


Air fresheners
were hung
everywhere. Exterminators were brought in to set off
gas canisters,
during which time the two had to move out for a few
days, and in the end
they even paid to replace the expensive wool
carpeting. Nothing worked!



People
stopped coming over to visit. Repairmen refused to
work in the house. The
maid quit.


Finally, they
couldn't take the stench any longer,
and decided they had to move, but a month later -
even though they'd cut
their price in half - they couldn't find a buyer
for such a stinky house.


Word got out,
and eventually even the local realtors
refused to return their calls.


Finally,
unable to wait any
longer for a purchaser, they had to borrow
a huge sum of money from
the bank to purchase a new
place.


Then the
ex-wife called the man and asked how things
were going. He told her
the saga of the
rotting house.

She
listened politely and said that she missed her old
home terribly and
would be willing to reduce her divorce settlement in
exchange for having
the house.


Knowing she
could have no idea how bad the smell
really was, he agreed on a price that was only 1/10
th of what the house
had been worth .... but only if she would sign the
papers that very day.


She agreed,
and within two hours his lawyers
delivered the completed
paperwork.


A week later
the man and his
girlfriend stood smiling as they watched the moving
company pack
everything to take to their new
home.


... And to
spite the ex-wife, they even took the
curtain rods!

[BlueXJ]

Much better 4.3L thanks. I always liked that joke and wanted everyone else to get the full impact.