cuckoo clock

Why it is hard to have a boys night out when you are in a
relationship:
The other night I was invited out for a night with the "boys." I told
my wife that I would be home by midnight, "I promise!" Well, the
hours passed and the beers went down way too easily. Around 3
door, the cuckoo clock in the hallway started up and cuckooed 3
times. Quickly, realising my fiance would probably wake up, I
cuckooed another 9 times. laas really proud of myself for coming
up with such a quk: solution, in order to escape a possible
conflict with her. (Even when totally smashed... 3 cuckoos plus 9
cuckoos totals 12 cuckoos = MIDNIGHT El The next morning my
fiance asked me what time I got in, I told her "MIDNIGHT''... she
didn' t seem pissed off in the least. Whew, I got away with that one!
Then she said "We need a new cuckoo clock." When I asked her
why, she said, "Well, last night our clock cuckooed three times,
then said "oh shit" Cuckooed 4 more times, cleared its throat,
cuckooed another three times, laughed, cuckooed twice more, and
then tripped over the coffee table and faded.