THE DIVORCE; A RECENT CASE OF NOTE

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Every day we hear of sad cases of marriage ending in Divorce. There is rarely, any sense of satisfaction in the end;rarely

On the first day she sadly packed her belongings into boxes, crates and suitcases.

On the second day she had the movers come and collect her things.

On the third day she sat down for the last time at their beautiful dining room table by candlelight.  She put on some soft background music and feasted on a pound of shrimp, a jar of caviar, and a bottle of spring water.

When she'd finished her meal, she went into each and every room and deposited a few half-eaten shrimp dipped in caviar into the hollow center of the curtain rods (the same curtain rods that they had bought while traveling on their honeymoon - the ones she loved).  She then cleaned up the kitchen and left.

On the fourth day, the husband came back with his new girlfriend, and all was bliss.

But gradually the house began to smell.

They tried everything; cleaning, mopping, and airing out the place.  They checked all the vents for dead rodents and steam cleaned all the rugs, drapes, and furniture.  They placed air fresheners everywhere.  They hired exterminators to set off gas canisters, during which time the two had to move out for a few days, and in the end they even paid to replace the expensive wool carpeting.

Nothing worked.  People stopped coming over to visit.  Repairmen refused to work in the house.  The maid quit.

At this point they couldn't take the stench any longer and decided they had to move, but a month later - even though they'd cut their price in half - they couldn't find a buyer.  The word had gotten out, and eventually the local realtors even stopped returning their calls.  Finally, unable to wait any longer, they borrowed a huge sum of money to purchase a new place.

At about that time the ex-wife called the man and asked how things were going.  He told her the saga of the rotting house.  She listened politely and said that she missed her old home terribly and would be willing to reduce her divorce settlement in exchange for having the house.

Knowing she couldn't possibly comprehend how bad the smell really was, he agreed on a price that was only a tenth of what the house had been worth, but only if she would sign the papers that very day.  She agreed, and within two hours his lawyers delivered the completed paperwork.

A week later the man and his girlfriend stood smiling as the moving company packed everything to take to their new home...

…and in a last gesture to spite the ex-wife, they took the curtain rods she had loved so dearly.

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