A couple was dressed and ready to go out for the evening. They turned ona night light, turned the answering machine on the phone line, coveredtheir pet parakeet and put the cat in the backyard.

They phoned the local cab company and requested a taxi. The taxiarrived and the couple opened the front door to leave their house.The cat they had put out into the yard scoots back into the house.

They don’t want the cat shut in the house because “she” alwaystries to eat the bird. The wife goes out to the taxi while thehusband goes inside to get the cat.

The cat runs upstairs, the man in hot pursuit.The wife doesn’t want the driver to know the house will be empty.Sheexplains to the taxi driver that her husband will be out soon.”He’s justgoing upstairs to say goodbye to my mother.”

A few minutes later, the husband gets into the cab. “Sorry I took solong,” he says, as they drive away.

“Stupid bitch was hiding under the bed. Had to poke her with a coathanger to get her to come out! Then I had to wrap her in a blanket tokeep her from scratching me. But it worked. I hauled her fat assdownstairs and threw her out into the back yard!”

The cabdriver hit a parked car…