Posted on 08/26/2017 10:15:42 PM PDT by Beowulf9
The man had been using the site for some months, to hire prostitutes and meet them for sex at hotels in neighboring areas. Last weekend the man told his wife he was going out drinking with work colleagues when in reality he was traveling to a motel on the outskirts of town.
(Excerpt) Read more at countyweekly.com ...
Remember when there was talk of unionizing prostitutes?
Things were swinging along fine until some wag remembered the Seniority rules.
If one wanted that 23 yo doll, and it was the toothless hag of 75 turn, and the ‘house’ could do nothing because of ‘right to work for card carrying union members’, she had as much ‘right’ as anyone to be there.
Caveat emptor brought to life in real time.
Bwaaahaaahaaa.... so much for getting a little something different. Too freaking funny. They deserve each other for sure.
You beat me to it.
I probably read that short story 55 years ago in English Lit. but it is still worth the read, so I did. O. Henry could write a story. Wonder if he is still celebrated as a good story writer in this day of common core standards?
Husband-turned-John: "So... anyways... how much?"
Wife-turned-Hooker: "20 bucks, same as in town."
She probably told him she was going shopping for quilting fabric. Paducah is the quilters’ Mecca.
I think this perennial urban legend made the rounds here about two weeks ago as well, in a different little town. Fake News.
Ah here we go http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3577513/posts
It’s a word for word copy, except being in Elgin IL.
Fake News.
As I recall there was a Marquis de Sade story along these lines
I thought that your link would lead to an O’Henry story I had neither read nor imagined—instead it leads to the one that everyone who knows an O’Henry story knows.
“Honey, I have something to tell you.” “Me too honey.”
cue Rupert Holmes - Escape
This how the world should function. But alas their are no consequences for your actions..well at least not emediately...
That didn't take long.
I read the title, and thought, "The over/under line for a Freeper mentioning the Pina Colada song is 5 posts. Well Fungoking, you did it in 3. Well done.
“Paducah, Kentucky man booked prostitute finds it’s his own wife”
Have you ever seen Paducah? You don’t want to.
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