Some secret marital codes are flawless—until you factor in bad timing and a five-year-old messenger.
To keep their private life completely hidden from their kids, a husband and wife agreed on a clever, old-school code word for intimacy: “the typewriter.”
One evening, feeling lucky, the husband sent his five-year-old daughter to the kitchen with a message:
“Go tell Mommy that Daddy needs to type a very important letter right now.”
The little girl delivered the news, but her mother didn’t hesitate. “Go back and tell your father that he can’t type any letters tonight,” she sighed. “There’s a red ribbon in the typewriter.”
Message received. The husband backed off and waited patiently.
A few days later, the obstacle had cleared. The wife smiled and told her daughter, “Go tell Daddy that the typewriter is finally open and he can type that letter now.”
The little girl skipped off to the living room, delivered the green light, and ran back to her mother with her father’s final update:
“Daddy said never mind about the typewriter, Mommy… he already wrote the letter by hand.”
