An attorney got home very late one evening after a very long, taxing day trying to get a stay of execution for a client named Samuel Wright who was due to be hanged for murder at midnight. His last-minute plea for clemency to the governor had failed and he was feeling tired and depressed.
As soon as he got through the door his wife started on him, "What time of night do you call this? Where the hell have you been?" and so on.
Too shattered to play his usual role in this familiar ritual, he went and poured himself a very large whiskey and headed off to the bathroom for a long hot soak -- pursued by his wife making her predictable sarcastic remarks.
While he was in the bath the phone rang, which the wife answered only to be told that her husband's client had been granted his stay of execution after all.
Realizing what a day he must have had, she relented a little and went in to the bathroom to give him the good news. As she opened the bathroom door she was greeted by the sight of her husband's rear end as he bent naked over the bath cleaning the tub.
"They're not hanging Wright tonight," she said.
The attorney whirled 'round and shouted hysterically, "For crying out loud. Don't you ever stop!"
