A woman was in bed with her lover when she heard her husband unlock the front door. Thinking fast, she told the man to stand in the corner. She rubbed baby oil on him, dusted him with talcum powder, and whispered, “Don’t move. Pretend you’re a statue.”
When her husband entered and saw the strange figure in the corner, he asked, “What’s that?”
“Oh, just a statue,” she replied casually. “The Smiths got one, and I liked it—so I got one too.”
Her husband didn’t question it further, and the night went on.
Around 2 a.m., he got out of bed, went to the kitchen, and returned with a sandwich and a beer. He walked up to the “statue,” handed him the food and drink, and said:
“Here, you must be hungry. I stood like that for two days at the Smiths’ house and didn’t get so much as a glass of water!”