What did you do today?

One afternoon a man came home from work to find total mayhem in his house.  His three children were outside, still in their pajamas, playing in the mud with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all around the front yard.

The door of his wife's car was open, as was the front door to the house.  Proceeding into the entry, he found an even bigger mess.  A lamp had been knocked over and the throw rug was wadded against one wall.  In the front room the TV was loudly blaring a cartoon channel, and toys and various items of clothing were strewn around the family room.  In the kitchen, dishes filled the sink, breakfast food was spilled on the counter, dog food was spilled on the floor, a broken glass lay under the table, and a small pile of sand was spread by the back door.  

Quickly he headed up the stairs, stepping over toys and more piles of clothes, looking for his wife, worried she might be ill or that something more serious had happened.  He found her lounging in the bedroom, still curled in the bed in her pajamas, reading a novel.  She looked up at him, smiled, and asked how his day went.

He looked at her incredulously, asking "What happened here today?" 

She answered, smiling, "You know every day when you come home from work, you ask me what in the world I did today?"

"Yes," he replied.

"Well, today I didn't do it."

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