Double-Blind

A young, married couple was invited to a swanky Halloween party, but the day of the party, the wife got a terrible headache and told her husband to go to the party alone. He protested, but she argued and said she was going to take some aspirin and go to bed, and there was no need of his good time being spoiled by not going. So he took his costume and mask and away he went.

The wife, after sleeping soundly for one hour, awakened without pain, and as it was still early, decided to go to the party. She also realized her husband did not know what her costume was, so she thought she would have some fun by watching her husband to see how he acted when he was unaware that she was watching him.

She joined the party and soon spotted her husband by his costume cavorting around on the dance floor, dancing with every attractive woman in sight. She sidled up to him and started dancing with him in a very comely way. Somewhat distressed at how eagerly he was responding to her, she decided to see how far he would go and began whispering salacious things in his ear--taking care to disguise her voice as much as possible. To her chagrin, he accepted by nodding eagerly. At this juncture, she wanted to reveal herself but was curious as to how far he was willing to go. Needless to say his hands were all over her and there was much inappropriate behavior.

Just before unmasking at midnight, she slipped away and went home, put the costume away, and got into bed while wondering what kind of explanation he would make for his behavior.

She was sitting up reading when he came in. She asked what kind of a time he had. He said, “Oh, the same old thing. You know I never have a good time when you’re not there.”

Then she asked, “Oh, really? Did you dance much?”

He replied, “I’ll tell you, I never even danced one dance. When I got there, I met some of the other guys and we were just bored so we went into the den and played poker all evening. But I’ll tell you… there was a guy there who hadn't realized it was a masquerade ball, and he was about my size so I just loaned him my costume. Apparently he had quite a wild time!

Moral of the Story: Making decisions based on superficial assumptions can be dangerous.