The husband came seeking escape, convinced his wife’s demands were unbearable. Yet as the judge casually listed tricks for peeling garlic, cutting onions, soaking dishes and laundry, the man saw something deeper: this respected authority was drowning in the same domestic grind, just wearing a robe instead of an apron. When he asked to withdraw his petition and admitted, “Your condition is worse than mine,” the courtroom laughed, but the joke cut both ways—marriage, work, and exhaustion spare no one.
Far away, young Chuck in Montana faced a different kind of problem: a dead horse and a broke farmer. Instead of accepting the loss, he turned misfortune into a raffle, selling 500 tickets without revealing the truth. Only the winner complained, and Chuck quietly refunded two dollars. One man stayed in his marriage, another profited from a disaster—both surviving by changing how they played the game.
