Her Late Husband

A woman, who had just been married to a gambling man, had learned upon marrying him that he always came home well after midnight.

She didn’t like this one bit, and no amount of reasoning with him would make him miss a night out with the guys, so every night for a week she would stay up till he came home, and when she heard him enter the house she would call out:

“Is that you, Ben?”

She did this for a week, and then he started coming home promptly at 7:00 every night. Why, you might ask?

His name was Jacob.