The wife is in a good mood for weeks, and then the lice are back. So she gets a little grumpy and the husband says he's concerned about her mental health which drives the wife crazy.
A husband recovers from a state of dangerous paranoia. The shrink tells the wife that it's her job to bring in the husband the moment he shows any signs of regression. So every few minutes the wife asks, "Are you feeling paranoid now?", which makes the husband feel exactly how one would think it would make the husband feel.
Then, she meets a man who she thinks has cerebral palsy, until she realizes he's just really groovy.
She has a minor surgery that leaves a 2 inch scar across her adam's apple. She can tell, people are disappointed when she tells the truth about how she got the scar. So she asks her husband, the writer, to write her a better story.
The next night, at a dinner party, the husband tells his story about how his wife got the 2 inch scar across her adam's apple.
The story is:
A. So shocking that it throws the party into a chaos that subsides only after a visit by the police.
B. A beautiful tribute to the wife's best qualities and sensibilities that inspires applause and admiration for both the husband and the wife.
C. A work of utter nonsense, causing one guest with asperger's to laugh hysterically and everyone else to whisper that perhaps the husband is indeed slipping.
Beyond her wildest dreams. And illustrated as well.
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