Tit for Tat

Heavy Silence hung around the room, as the husband and wife sat at a corner each, with their back to each other. They had  a massive fight about managing their finances and neither was willing to accept their mistake. Arguments and fights were a frequent occurrence among them but the husband was particularly worried about his wife’s refusal of his pleas for truce. He had an important flight to board the next morning and being a heavy sleeper he wanted to make sure his wife woke him up on time. He understood that his wife was in no mood to forgive him.                                                                                                       

He hit upon a bright idea and quickly wrote a few lines on a piece of paper and placed it on his wife’s pillow while she was away. It read: “Wake me up at 4 a.m. since I have an important conference to attend and I need to catch the early morning flight. ”

The husband slept soundly in the fond hope that his wife, would see the note on the pillow. He woke up the next morning with a shock to find that it was 7 a.m. and he had missed his flight. Feeling angry, he was about to yell for his wife when a note at his bedside caught his attention. Written in bold letters was the following line: “Wake up—its 4.30 a.m.”