Dances With Tripods

A husband wrote the following letter for his
wife and left it on the dining room table:


"To My Dear Wife,You will surely understand that
I have certain needs that you, being 54 years old, can no longer
satisfy. I am very happy with you, and I value you as a good wife.
Therefore, after reading this letter I hope you will not wrongly
interpret the fact that I will be spending the evening with my
18-year-old secretary at the Comfort Inn Hotel. Please don't be upset -
I shall be back home before midnight."


When the man came home late that night he found
the following letter on the dining room table:

"To My Dear Husband, I received your letter and
thank you for your honesty. About my being 54 years old. I would like
to take this opportunity to remind you that you are also 54 years old.
As you know, I am a math teacher at our local college. I would like to
inform you that while you're at the Comfort Inn, I will be at the Hotel
Fiesta with Michael, one of my students, who is also the assistant
tennis coach. He is young, virile, and like your secretary, he is 18
years old. As a successful businessman with an excellent knowledge of
math, you will understand that we are in the same situation, although
with one small difference; 18 goes into 54 a lot more times than 54 goes
into 18. Therefore I will not be home until sometime tomorrow."