>
> My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high school reunion, and
> I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sat alone
> at a nearby table. My wife asks, "Do you know her?"
>
> "Yes," I sighed, "She's my old girlfriend. I understand she took to
> drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear she
> hasn't been sober since."
>
> "My God!" says my wife, "Who would think a person could go on
> celebrating that long?"