A Husband Waits

Patience is not only a virtue, but the course of wisdom.

A Husband Waits

 

By Elton Camp

 

“I had better go powder my nose.”

You know all about words like those.

Women seldom say what they mean.

So, the lines you must read between.

 

When the wife enters that room,

It won’t do you any good to fume.

You know what she intends to do,

But not when she will be through.

 

It must have really big insides.

Since dozens of women it hides.

Two go in while five come out.

Just how does that come about?

 

Stand, shift and wait some more.

Surely she will soon exit the door.

The door opens just a tiny crack.

Maybe at last she’s coming back.

 

The restroom door swings out wide.

A three-hundred pounder it did hide.

In the car you wish you’d said to wait.

But you didn’t think of it until too late.

 

After what seems to have been an hour,

She appears and sees you looking sour.

“You haven’t been waiting very long.

If you claim you have, you’re wrong.”

 

A husband with an ounce of brain,

Knows that he better not complain.

So that there won’t be a big fight,

You reply, “Yes, dear, you are right.”