A man and his wife have been married for 40 years. On the day of their wedding, though, the man said to the woman:

"My love, I only have one thing to ask of you. From this day forward I am going to keep a small wooden box under the bed. Please... never, ever open it. Ever. That's all I want."

Being the faithful wife she is, she happily agreed. And for the entire 40 years of her marriage, she managed to keep herself from opening it. But on their 40th anniversary, she could no longer hold back, and opened the box.

Inside it were two empty beer bottles, some dimes, and a huge wad of bills. There must've been almost two thousand dollars in that box. Confused, she closed the box, returned it to its place, and got ready for her anniversary dinner with her husband.

At dinner, she admitted what she had done. The husband seemed surprised at first, but not angry.

"Well, you've been such a faithful wife to me for 40 years now, so I guess you deserve to know about it. You see, dear... I'm ashamed to say it, but whenever I was unfaithful to you, I put an empty beer bottle in that box to remind myself never to do it again."

So... there were two beer bottles.

She loved him so much, and after all, they'd been together for 40 years. She forgave him.

"But, what about all the money in the box?" she asked.

he said, "Well, every time the box filled up with bottles I cashed them in."