need a new clock

[mcamp999]

> New Clock
>
> The other night I was invited out for a night with "the girls." I told
> my
> husband that I would be home by midnight, "I promise!" Well, the hours
> passed and the margaritas went down way too easy.
>
> Around 3 a.m., a bit loaded, I headed for home. Just as I got in the
> door, the cuckoo clock in the hall started up and cuckooed 3 times.
>
> Quickly, realizing my husband would probably wake up, I cuckooed another
> 9
> times. I was really proud of myself for coming up with such a
> quick-witted
> solution, in order to escape a possible conflict with him.
>
> (Even when totally smashed...3 cuckoos plus 9 cuckoos totals 12 cuckoos
> =
> MIDNITE!)
>
>
> The next morning my husband asked me what time I got in, and I told him
> "Midnight". He didn't seem upset at all. Whew! Got away with that
> one!
> Then he said, "We need a new cuckoo clock."
>
> When I asked him why?, he said, "Well, last night our clock cuckooed
> three
> times, then said, "Oh. sh--.", cuckooed 4 more times, cleared it's
> throat,
> cuckooed another 3 times, giggled, cuckooed twice more, and then tripped
> over the coffee table and farted."