A man and his wife had a fight and were giving each other the silent treatment.

After a day or so the man realized that he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 a.m. for an early morning business flight to New York. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence, he wrote on a piece of paper, “Please wake me at 5:00 a.m.”

The next morning the man woke up, only to discover it was 9:00 a.m., and that he had missed his flight. Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn’t woken him when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed … it said… “It’s 5:00 a.m.; wake up.”