One Thing Certain

Two men who had not seen each other for a long time met by chance one evening in an all-night diner. They became so engrossed in talking about old times that, before they realized it, the time was three-thirty in the morning. Both expressed concern that their wives would be upset when they arrived home at such a late hour. Several days later, the men again happened to meet. “What happened when you got home so late the other night?” one asked the other. “Everything was O.K.,” he replied. “I simply told my wife about how we had met and talked about old times and she understood perfectly. By the way, what happened when you arrived home?” The second man replied, “When I walked in at four in the morning my wife became historical.” “You mean hysterical,” said the first man. “No,” said the other, “I mean historical. My wife spent the next hour bringing up everything that happened in the twenty-five years of our…