Melissa, you can recategorize this one if you want - I couldn't figure out where a joke would fit, but since it's about married people...

A man and his wife were having some problems, and were giving each other the "silent treatment". The next week, the man realized that he needed his wife to wake him for a 5:00 am flight to Chicago for a business meeting. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence, (AND LOSE), the man wrote a note and left on his wife's pillow "Please wake me at 5:00 am". Waking the next morning and finding it was 9:00 am, and he had missed the important flight, he was furious and arose to ask his wife why she hadn't awakened him. Upon getting out of bed, he found a piece of paper that had fallen on the floor. Picking it up, he read

"It is 5:00 am. Get up!"

-- Christine in OK (cljford@mmcable.com), February 12, 2002