Breaking Up the Routine
Illustration
by Wallace H. Kirby

A woman called a packing house and ordered the complete carcass of a horse. She met the delivery men and asked them to put the horse in the bathtub. As they left, the men could not resist asking the woman about this curious project. She told them that she and her husband had been married for over thirty years. Things were going well, but the routine was taking its toll. So she had decided to break out of this trap and ordered the horse. "Each evening," she said, "my husband comes in, goes into the bathroom, to wash up, and calls out to me, ‘Well, dear, what's new today?'" Blessed are those who decide that routine and monotony will not blind them to their big moment.

CSS Publishing Company , If Only…, by Wallace H. Kirby