Birthday

Every morning a man passes a house in his street and every morning he sees a woman in her front garden beating her husband over the head with a French loaf.

This goes on for months until one morning he passes the house and sees the woman is beating her husband
with a large éclair. Later that day he meets the woman in the street.

‘Aren’t you the woman who beats her husband with a French loaf?’ asks the man.

‘Only, today, I could have sworn you were hitting him with a big cake.’

‘Oh, I was,’ replies the woman. ‘Today is his birthday.’