Linda's Perfect Boring Ex Husband

If you can't have a good laugh you're in trouble You've got to see the brighter side of life Perhaps if John did not always feel so serious He may well still be living with his estranged wife For Linda told her friends she found him boring Her disappointment in him she can't hide She left him after twenty years of marriage The gulf between them it had grown too wide. He does not drink or smoke or chat up women Yet Linda his wife with him did not stay She says who needs a perfect boring husband I'd prefer one with humour any day. I stayed with him on account of our children But now i ask myself was it worth while? For the first few years he did show bits of humour But his face would crack now if he had to smile. Linda doesn't need john her perfect boring ex husband So very far apart from him she's grown 'She says' he's one i could not share a joke with And i'm better by far living on my own. So there you have it John the perfect husband Is seen as boring by his estranged wife And there's a simple lesson in this story If you can't laugh then you can't enjoy life.