20th April 2007 11:04
NINE MONTHS LATER
Jack decided to go skiing with his buddy, Bob. They loaded up Jack's
minivan
and headed north. After driving for a few hours, they encountered a
terrible
blizzard. They pulled into a nearby farm and asked the attractive lady
who
answered the door if they could spend the night. "I realize it's
terrible
weather out there and I have this huge house all to myself, but I'm
recently
widowed," she explained. "I'm afraid the neighbors will talk if I let
you
stay in my house."
"Don't worry," Jack said. "We'll be happy to sleep in the barn. And if
the
weather breaks, we'll be gone at first light." The lady agreed, and the
two
men found their way to the barn and settled in for the night.
Come morning, the weather had cleared, and they got on their way. They
enjoyed a great weekend of skiing.
About nine months later, Jack got an unexpected letter from an
attorney.
It
took him a few minutes to figure it out, but he finally determined that
it
was from the attorney of that attractive widow he had met on the ski
weekend.
He dropped in on his friend Bob and asked, "Bob, do you remember that
good-looking widow from the farm we stayed at on our ski holiday up
North?"
"Yes, I do."
"Did you happen to get up in the middle of the night, go up to the
house
and
pay her a visit?"
"Yes," Bob said, a little embarrassed about being found out. "I have to
admit that I did."
"And did you happen to use my name instead of telling her your name?"
Bob's
face turned red and he said, "Yeah, sorry, buddy. I'm afraid I did. Why
do
you ask?"
"She just died and left me everything."