“The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion it has taken place.” (George Bernard Shaw)

A man and his wife had been arguing all night, and as bedtime approached neither was speaking to the other.

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It was not unusual for the pair to continue this war of silence for two or three days. However, on this occasion the man was concerned; he needed to be awake at 4:30am the next morning to catch an important flight and being a very heavy sleeper, he normally relied on his wife to wake him.

Cleverly (so he thought), while his wife was in the bathroom, he wrote on a piece of paper: “Please wake me at 4:30am – I have an important flight to catch.”

He put the note on his wife’s pillow, then turned over and went to sleep.

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