In a candlelit room, peering into a crystal ball, a fortune teller delivered devastating news to a woman who had come seeking answers about her alcoholic husband.
“There’s no easy way to tell you this, so I’ll just be blunt,” said the fortune teller. “Prepare yourself to be a widow. Within a year your husband will die a sudden, unfortunate death.”
Visibly shaken, the woman stared at the fortune teller’s face, then at the crystal ball, then at the flickering candle, and finally down at her own hands. She took a few deep breaths to compose herself and to stop her mind from racing. She simply had to know. She looked up at the fortune teller’s eyes, steadied her voice, and asked, “Will I be acquitted?”
Joke stolen from the July 2020 Grapevine