not wrongly interpret the fact that I will be spending the evening with my 18-year-old secretary at the Comfort Inn. Please don’t be upset, I shall be back before midnight.”
When the man came home late that night, he found a reply to his letter on the dining room table:
“My Dear Husband,
I received your letter and thank you for your honesty about my being 54 years old. I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that you are also 54 years old. I would like to inform you that, while you read this, I will be at the Hotel Fiesta with Michael, one of my students, who is also an assistant tennis coach. He is young, virile and, like your secretary, he is 18.
You, being a successful businessman with excellent knowledge of math, will understand that we are in the same situation, although with one small difference – 18 goes into 54 a lot more times than 54 goes into 18…
