A 50-year-old woman suddenly decided to learn how to swim.
Her friends were surprised because she had always spent her free time going to church.
One day, someone asked,
“Why have you suddenly become so interested in swimming?”
The woman sighed and replied,
“Whenever my son and daughter-in-law argue, my daughter-in-law always asks him, ‘If your mother and I both fell into the water, who would you save first?’”
“I don’t want my son to be put in that position, so I decided to learn how to swim.”
A few weeks later, the couple were arguing again.
The daughter-in-law turned to her husband and asked,
“Now tell me. If your mother and I both fell into the water, who would you save first?”
The husband calmly replied,
“I wouldn’t need to jump in. My mother knows how to swim. She’d save you.”
His wife frowned.
“No. You have to jump into the water and save one of us.”
The husband smiled and said,
“Then you’d definitely be in trouble…”
“I can’t swim.”
“And my mom would save me first.”