Time Off with Girl Friends

Four friends spend weeks planning the perfect girls getaway trip - shopping spree, casinos, massages and facials, the whole works.

Two days before the group was to leave Mary's husband put his foot down and told her she wasn't going. Her pals were very upset but since they'd already paid for the holiday, they reluctantly decided to go anyway.

On Friday when the three get to the hotel, there was Mary sitting in the bar drinking a martini.

"Wow, how long have you been here?" they asked.

"I've been here for hours," Mary said with a sly grin.

"But tell us, how did you talk your husband into letting you go?"

"Well, last night as I was sitting on the couch my husband came up behind me, put his hands over my eyes and said 'Guess who?'

"When I pulled his hands off I saw all he was wearing was his birthday suit. Whispering sweet nothings, he led me to our bedroom. It was dark and scented with lovely perfume. He had lit a dozen candles and strewn rose petals over the bed. There, on the sheets he had set out handcuffs and ropes!

"He told me to cuff him and tie him to the bed, so I did. And then he said, 'Now you can do whatever you want.'

"So here I am."

Here's a little music to send you into the weekend: http://oldfortyfives.com/DYRT.htm