Lessons For a Life Long Marriage

I recently attended a 50th wedding anniversary for a couple. As we mingled among the crowd I spotted the husband and went to congratulate him. Of course, the only intelligent thing I could think to ask him was the same thing everyone else was asking him. How did you make it 50 years? His answer, "We never argued." I said, "yeah, seriously, how did you do it." He said, "No Seriously." and he proceeded to tell me this story. The day of their wedding he had prepared a horse and buggy to rid them off into the sunset after the wedding ceremony was over. The wedding came and went and they hopped into the buggy to drive off. He grabbed the reigns and they began down the road. After a few feet, the horse stopped. His wife got down from the buggy and walked in front of the horse. She said, "thats one!" She got back up and the horse started forward again but then stopped. Again, his wife got down in front of the horse and said, "thats two!" Again, the horse continued for a short distance and then stopped. This time when the wife got down she said, "thats three!" She pulled out a pistol and shot the horse dead. He said he was mortified! He began yelling and screaming at her. She looked up at him and softly said, "Hunny, thats one..." He said from that day on, they never had another argument.