The Silent Treatment
A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment. This went on for an entire week, with neither one being willing to give in and communicate verbally.
At the end of the week, the man realized that he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 AM the next day for an early morning business flight to Chicago. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (AND LOSE), he wrote on a piece of paper, "Please wake me at 5:00 AM."
The next morning the man woke up, only to discover it was 9:00 AM and that he had missed his flight. Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn't wakened him, when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed. The paper said, "It is 5:00 AM. Wake up."
(MEN JUST AREN'T EQUIPPED FOR THESE SORT OF CONTESTS)