Fun with Forwards

Early today, I was sent this joke:

On their wedding night, the young bride approached her new husband and asked for $20.00 for their first lovemaking encounter.

In his highly aroused state, her husband readily agreed. This scenario was repeated each time they made love, for more than 30 years, with him thinking that it was a cute way for her to afford new clothes and other incidentals that she needed.

Arriving home around noon one day, she was surprised to find her husband in a very drunken state. During the next few minutes, he explained that his employer was going through a process of corporate downsizing, and he had been let go. It was unlikely that, at the age of 59, he'd be able to find another position that paid anywhere near what he'd been earning, and therefore, they were financially ruined.

Calmly, his wife handed him a bank book which showed more than thirty years of steady deposits and interest totaling nearly $1 million. Then she showed him certificates of deposits issued by the bank which were worth over $2 million, and informed him that they were one of the largest depositors in the bank. She explained that for the more than three decades she had "charged" him for sex, these holdings had multiplied and these were the results of her savings and investments.

Faced with evidence of cash and investments worth over $3 million, her husband was so astounded he could barely speak, but finally he found his voice and blurted out, "If I'd had any idea what you were doing, I would have given you all my business!"

That's when she shot him.

Sometimes it's better to keep your mouth shut!

Ignoring the awkward grammatical construction ("...each time they made love, for more than 30 years" -- assuming you can do that, is it likely to happen more than once?), the math didn't seem right to me.

Here's my reply:

Not to be a spoilsport... but if she made $1 million, that means that they had sex 50,000 times, which averages out to 1667 times per year, or approximately 4.5 times per day.

Assuming the average session lasts 20 minutes, that means, out of the last 30 years of marriage, nearly 2 years has been spent just having sex.

It's no wonder he got fired.