When an elderly man picked up the phone to call his son, his voice sounded serious. \u201cListen,\u201d he said, \u201cyour mother and I are getting divorced. Forty-five years of misery is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His son was stunned. \u201cDad, what are you talking about?\u201d he shouted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t stand each other anymore,\u201d the old man continued. \u201cI\u2019m tired of seeing her face. I\u2019m done talking about it. Call your sister and let her know.\u201d Then he hung up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Panicking, the son immediately called his sister and told her everything. She couldn\u2019t believe what she was hearing. \u201cWhat? They\u2019re getting divorced after all these years?!\u201d she screamed. Without wasting a second, she called their father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDad! You are NOT getting divorced! My brother and I are flying home tomorrow to talk this through. Until then, don\u2019t call a lawyer, don\u2019t sign anything, do you hear me?\u201d she said firmly before hanging up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The old man smiled, turned to his wife sitting quietly beside him, and said: \u201cGood news, sweetheart \u2014 they\u2019re both coming home for Christmas, and they\u2019re paying for their own tickets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After years of trying to convince their grown-up children to visit, he finally found a plan that worked. Sometimes it doesn\u2019t take guilt, money, or gifts\u2026 just a little clever thinking and a sense of humor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moral of the story:<\/strong> Parents always know how to get what they want \u2014 and this time, it only cost a phone call! \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When an elderly man picked up the phone to call his son, his voice sounded serious. \u201cListen,\u201d he said, \u201cyour mother and I are getting divorced. Forty-five… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5098,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions\/5098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}