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February 11, 2009 | weird news
Joey Greco will track you down. Unless of course, his show is canceled during these turbulent economic times
Most men will go to great lengths – crafting intricate alibis, destroying evidence, bribing the family pet – to avoid being caught two-timing their spouses.
Horrified by tales of divorced men who were found cheating and left with nothing but a toaster and a fork (and a diagram suggesting on how the two could best be employed in tandem) from their vast fortunes, the need to keep “what she doesn’t know” from “not hurting her” becomes all the more pressing.
Interestingly though, these days, during tough financial times as the economy is going south, it seems fewer relationships are as well. According to no less a source than a bunch of dicks in Massachusetts, (private investigators that is), infidelity tapers off in a depressed economy.
While it might be tough to blame the old lady if she succumbed to the relative charms of some other guy who hasn’t yet grown comfortable enough to pass wind in her presence, you can, especially if there are dishes to do—rest easy.
Carnal expeditions have been so reduced in number, that, like the comely secretary’s bottom, even PIs are feeling the pinch.
You might want to grab the nearest hankie and wipe a tear away from your moistening eyes as you find out why this is.
“A lot of people can’t afford to (mess) around because they no longer have the expense accounts to write the dinners off. Corporate travel is down, where before they had the hotel,” notes a Boston attorney.
Regardless of origin, the essential wrongness of, say, throwing a leg over cousin Fred’s low-cut-blouse-wearing flirtatious dish of a wife before the ink on divorce papers is dry and their boy Billy is shunted off to boarding school, has become an accepted part of civil society.
According to reports though, jilted not-so-significant others may also be swallowing their pride, rather than pushing confrontations that could lead to a pricey divorce, as PI business is dropping faster than a John’s drawers at brothel closing time.
“There’s a phrase, ‘It’s cheaper to keep her,’ ” the head of the Licensed Private Detectives Association of Massachusetts. “Perhaps they’re giving their marriage a second bite at the apple.” That’s an interesting phrase to use, but given their line of work, ‘one more kick at the can’ just doesn’t have that same sense of inevitability.
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