24th October 2006 16:12
> A man and his wife are dining at a table in a plush restaurant, and the
> husband keeps staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sits
> alone at a nearby table.
>
> The wife asks, "Do you know her?"
>
> "Yes," sighs the husband, "She's my ex-girlfriend. I understand she
> took to drinking right after we split up seventeen years ago, and I hear
> she hasn't been sober since."
>
> "My Goodness!" says the wife, "Who would think a person could go on
> celebrating that long?"