The following
conversation took place one
morning between a wife and her husband. They
were discussing
government cost cuts that they recently heard about in
the
paper.

“Steve,” his wife said, while reading the newspaper, “it looks like

our government is going to cut overhead and trim down the military

forces. They are going to eliminate six overaged
destroyers.”

To which the husband replies, “Sorry to hear that, dear. I’m sure

you’ll miss your mother being gone.”