MASQUERADE

A COUPLE was invited to a swanky masked Halloween party. But on the night, the wife got a terrible headache and told her husband to go to the party alone. He, being a devoted husband, protested, but the wife said there was no sense in both of them not having a good time, and insisted he go. So he put on his costume and mask and away he went.

The wife took some aspirin and went to bed. After sleeping soundly for about an hour, she awakened to find her headache had gone. So, as it was still early, she decided to go to the party. She knew her husband had never seen her costume, so she thought she would have some fun by watching to see how he acted when he thought she wasn’t around.

She joined the party and soon spotted her husband cavorting around on the dance floor, dancing with every beautiful girl he could, stealing kisses here and there. His wife went up to him, and, being a rather seductive lady herself, the husband immediately left the girl he was with high and dry and devoted his time to this new woman.

After a while, he whispered a little proposition in her ear and she agreed, so off they went to one of the cars, had a good time, and then went back to the party.

Just before unmasking at midnight, the wife slipped away and went home. She put the costume away and got into bed, wondering what kind of explanation he would make for his behaviour.

She was sitting up reading when he came home. “How was the party, dear? Did you dance much?” she asked him.

“Actually, I never danced at all,” the husband replied. “When I got there, I met Pete, Bill and some other guys, so we went into the games room and played poker all evening. But you’re not going to believe what happened to the guy I loaned my costume to!”

Iggot Luckie, email