CURTAIN
RODS --- PRICELESS
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 centre 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 the curtain
rods!


I
LOVE A HAPPY ENDING, DON'T
YOU?

Brilliant.

worth remembering should it be needed for the future