Baked Bean

    Judy loved cooking baked beans for her husband John.  John, being a
very picking person, would taste them and say, "These aren't like Mom used
to make." This went on for months, while Judy tried different baked bean
recipes.  All John could say was, "Not like Mom used to make."
    Finally Judy got a brilliant idea.  Why not ask Mom for her recipe?
She did.  Mom gave the recipe to her and she cooked it right up.  John
tasted it and said, "Not yet like Mom made."
    Judy thought, that dirty rat, Mom gave me the wrong recipe to make me
look bad in front of John.  So she looked at Mom's recipe card.  It was
all dog-eared.  Well used.  Judy concluded that the recipe was probably
genuine after all.  She went back and tried the recipe again.  But John
again said, "Not like Mom used to make."
    This continued for a long time.  Judy finally decided that since John
complains about everything else, why not at Mom's recipe?
    One day, while making the baked beans, there is an emergency with
their Jimmy at school.  Judy rushes to the Emergency room.  After many
hours Judy finally brings Jimmy home.  After stepping one foot into the
door one sniff tells Judy that she had forgotten about the beans.
    Judy starts to throw the beans down the sink when she thinks, "What
the heck do I care?  Let that idiot John of mine just eat it anyway.  He
won't know the difference."
    So, John comes home tastes the baked beans and says, "Wow, just like
Mom used to make!"

THE END