Quick Thinking
Snails
A wife was hosting a lavish dinner party at the family apartment and had invited the cream of San Franciscan society to attend. To ensure that she was serving only the freshest food at the party, that afternoon she sent her husband down to the beach to fetch some snails. But while he was collecting snails on the beach, he met a beautiful woman. Well one thing led to another and they ended up going back to her place, drinking some wine and making passionate love.
He was so smitten with her that he completely forgot about the time and it was the following morning before he woke up. "My God," he thought. "My wife's dinner party." He frantically got dressed and ran back to the apartment just as the sun was rising. But he was in such a hurry that as he reached the top of the stairs leading to the apartment, he dropped the bucket of snails and they fell to the floor. There were snails all the way down the stairs.
Just then his wife opened the door. She was furious. "Where have you been all night?" she screamed.
He looked at her and then at the trail of snails down the stairs. "Come on guys," he said, "we're almost there."
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