My Wife the Engineer

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Miriam arrives home quite late one night and says to her worried Moishe, “Sorry I’m late. I had to come home by train because I couldn’t get the car to start.”

“Why?” asks Moishe

“I think there’s water in the carburetor,” replies Miriam.

“How on earth can you know that?” says Moishe. “You don’t even know how to open the hood or to change the time on the car’s clock yet alone know where the carburetor is.”

“Maybe so,” says Miriam, “but I still think there’s water in it.”

Moishe then says, “OK, I’ll go along with you. Maybe you’ve been taking some classes at the auto body shop without me knowing. Let’s check it out. Where did you leave the car?”

Miriam replies, “In the lake!”