{"id":533,"date":"2025-07-21T06:42:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2025-07-21T06:42:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:42:56","slug":"a-married-couple-is-driving-along-a-highway-doing-a-steady-40-miles-per-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"A married couple is driving along a highway doing a steady 40 miles per hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A married couple is driving along a highway doing a steady 40 miles per hour.<br \/>\nThe husband is behind the wheel.His wife suddenly looks across at him and speaks in a clear voice. \u201cI know we have been married for over twenty years, but I want a divorce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The husband says nothing.He keeps looking at the road ahead but slowly increases his speed to 45mph.<\/p>\n<p>The wife speaks again. \u201cI don\u2019t want you to try to talk me out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She says, \u201cBecause I\u2019ve been having an affair with your best friend, and he is a far better lover than you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Again the husband stays quiet but grips the steering wheel more tightly and slowly increases the speed to 55mph.She pushes her luck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want a house.\u201d She says insistently.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 60 mph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want the car, too.\u201d She continues.<\/p>\n<p>65mph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd,\u201d she says, \u201cI\u2019ll have the bank accounts, all the credit cards, and the boat!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The car slowly starts veering towards a massive concrete bridge.<\/p>\n<p>This makes her nervous, so she asks him, \u201cIsn\u2019t there anything you want?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The husband at last replies in a quiet and controlled voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I\u2019ve got everything I need, \u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, really,\u201d she inquires. \u201cSo what have you got?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just before they slam into the wall at 65mph, the husband turns to her and smiles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe airbag!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A married couple is driving along a highway doing a steady 40 miles per hour. The husband is behind the wheel.His wife suddenly looks across at him and speaks in a clear voice. \u201cI know we have been married for over twenty years, but I want a divorce.\u201d The husband says nothing.He keeps looking at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}