celebrating

[les-patots]

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 asked, '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!' said my wife, 'who would think a person could go on celebrating

that long?'