The housewife answered a knock on the door

The housewife answered a knock on the door and found a total stranger standing on the doorstep.


“Excuse me for disturbing you, ma’am,” he said politely,

“but I pass your house every morning on my way to work, and I’ve noticed that every day you appear to be hitting your son on the head with a loaf of bread.”


“That’s right.”


“Every day you hit him on the head with a loaf of bread, and yet this morning you were beating him with a chocolate cake.”


“Well, today is his birthday.”