Once upon a time there lived a woman who had a maddening passion
for baked
beans. She loved them but unfortunately they had always had a
very
embarrassing and somewhat lively reaction to her. Then one day she
met a guy
and fell in love. When it became apparent that they would marry she
thought
to herself, " He is such a sweet and gentleman, he would never go
for this
carrying on." So she made the supreme sacrifice and gave up
beans.
Some months later her car broke down on the way home from work.
Since she
lived in the country she called her husband and told him that she
would be
late because she had to walk home. On her way she passed a small
diner and
the odor of the baked beans was more than she could stand.
Since she still had miles to walk, she figured that she would walk
off any
ill effects by the time she reached home. So, she stopped at the
diner and
before she knew it, she had consumed three large orders of baked
beans.
All the way home she putt-putted. And upon arriving home she felt
reasonably
sure she could control it. Her husband seemed excited to see her
and
exclaimed delightedly, "Darling, I have a surprise for dinner
tonight." He
then blindfolded her and led her to her chair at the table. She
seated herself and just as he was about to remove the blindfold
from his wife,the telephone rang. He made
her promise not to touch the blindfold until he returned. He then
went to
answer the phone. The baked beans she had consumed were still
affecting her and the pressure was becoming almost unbearable, so
while her husband was out of the room she seized the opportunity,
shifted her weight to one leg and let it go. It was
not only loud, but it smelled like a fertilizer truck running over
a skunk in
front of pulpwood mill. She took her napkin and fanned the air
around her
vigorously. Then, she shifted to the other cheek and ripped three
more, which
reminded her of cooked cabbage. Keeping her ears tuned to the
conversation in the other room, she went on like this for another
ten minutes. When the phone farewells signaled the end of her
freedom, she fanned the air a few more times with her napkin,
placed it on her lap and folded her hands upon it, smiling
contentedly to herself. She was the picture of innocence when her
husband returned, apologizing for taking so
long, he asked her if she peeked, and she assured him that she had
not. At
this point, he removed the blindfold, and she was surprised!!
There were twelve dinner guests seated around the table to wish her
a "Happy
Birthday"!!!
