[SOC] The hidden shoebox...

[Rob Matherly]

There was once a man and woman who had been married for more than 60 years. 
They had shared everything. They had talked about everything. They had kept 
no secrets from each other except that the little old woman had a shoebox in 
the top of her closet that she had cautioned her husband never to open or ask 
her about. 

For all of these years, he had never thought about the box, but one day, the 
little old woman got very sick and the doctor said she would not recover. In 
trying to sort out their affairs, the little old man took down the shoebox 
and took it to his wife's bedside. She agreed that it was time that he should 
know what was in the box. 

When he opened it, he found two crocheted doilies and a stack of money 
totaling $25,000. He asked her about the contents. "When we were to be 
married," she said, "my grandmother told me the secret of a happy marriage 
was to never argue. She told me that if I ever got angry with you I should 
just keep quiet and crochet a doily." 

The little old man was so moved, he had to fight back tears. Only two 
precious doilies were in the box. She had only been angry with him two times 
in all those years of living and loving. He almost burst with happiness. 

"Honey," he said, "that explains the doilies, but what about all of this 
money? Where did it come from?" 

"Oh," she said, "that's the money I made from selling the doilies on Ebay."

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