Ninety-four-year-old Mrs. Hatcher showed up at her lawyers

office one Monday morning. I want you to begin divorce

proceedings, she announced.

The lawyer was aghast. When he regained his composure, he said, Mrs. Hatcher, you and your husband have been married for over seventy years. What in the world could have happened to make you want to get divorced at this stage in your life?

Mrs. Hatcher looked him squarely in the eye. She cleared her throat and said, We wanted to wait until all the children were dead.