Kenny Rogerson: Suicide Surprise

Last Thursday, there’s an ambulance outside my house, loading a body in. So, I go up to the cop at the door and say, ‘What’s going on?’ He says, ‘Looks like your wife committed suicide.’ I’m thinking, ‘Oh great. Right before the weekend.’ So I go down to the morgue to identify her body, and I spend half the day there browsing. The morgue guy pulls up the tray, pulls back the sheet, and I said, ‘Yeah, that’s her.’ All of a sudden, he starts laughing. I said, ‘What’s so funny?’ Next thing I know, the lights come on, she pops up — ‘Surprise! Happy Birthday!’ I couldn’t believe I fell for that two years in a row.