"PENDEJO!"

A nurse marries a cardiologist and together they have four children and a prosperous life, but she is restless. A statement she uttered early in their courtship haunts the doctor: "After I have had sex with a person once, he bores me."

The husband accepts that his wife is promiscuous from the many stories that she has told him recounting her single years, but he fears she may be a nymphomaniac. The truth he has suspected for many years he learns the hard way.

Bored with her spouse and tired of the monotony of her marriage, she breaks down and has an affair with a balding, pot-bellied, crooked-tooth, part-time mechanic. She brazenly parades with him in public.

After the divorce the doctor asks himself, "How could she give herself to such a loser? Is it because she conceives of sex as a dirty act best shared with trash? How could a mother and a wife have so little respect for herself that she could make the most depraved, disgusting and despicable decision a woman can make--become an adulteress!"

Liberated from both her husband and lover--the latter proved to be nothing more than a passing fancy--she returns to the rush of her youthful years going from man to man as if she were a deep dish of spaghetti being passed around the table.

The ex can only shake his head in bewilderment.

He says to his friend, "Will she reach a fork in the road as she ages that the cheap thrills aren't paying the bills and dupes some poor fool into marrying her and providing her with financial security? Will her maturing children fill her with shame and inspire her to rescue her tarnished reputation? Or is she everything I feared from the beginning of our relationship--a puta? Believe it or not, compadre, I still love her."

"Pendejo!"