Marty arrives home from work and as soon as he sets foot in the house, Sadie is on to him, telling him that their friend Marvin has finally quit smoking.
“Imagine that, Marty,” she says, “someone who smoked 3 packs a day for 20 years has stopped smoking all of a sudden. Now that’s what I call will power – something that you definitely don’t have.”
But, Sadie hadn’t finished.
“And that’s not all. I hear that Bernie, that drunken friend of yours, is finally giving up drinking – another example of the kind of will power that you don’t have.”
“OK, Sadie,” said Marty, “you want to see will power, do you? Well here’s will power. I am going to sleep on the couch in the spare room from now on. I am going to prove to you that I won’t be affected at all by not sleeping with a woman.”
Marty keeps to his word.
One night, when he had been sleeping alone for a week, there is a knock on his door.
Marty shouts out, “What do you want?”
Sadie replies, “Marvin has started smoking again.”
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