Two guys were talking at the office.
"I've got a problem," said the first one.
"What is it?"
"My wife has done it to me again. I'm supposed to buy my mother-in-law a present for her birthday, from the two of us. And I am fresh out of ideas. I mean it's her mother, why can't she buy it?"
"What did you buy her last year?" the other one asked.
"Last year I bought her a very expensive cemetery plot."
"Hmm, it'll be hard to top that one," said the other.
The two guys couldn't come up with anything, so the son-in-law didn't buy his mother-in-law anything for her birthday.
When the big day arrived the next weekend, the mother-in-law was a bit upset. At the family gathering for her birthday, she announced out loud to everyone, "Thank you all for the wonderful gifts. Too bad my daughter and son-in-law weren't so thoughtful!"
Thinking quickly, the son-in-law responded, "Well, you haven't used the gift I gave you last year!"
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