Jocop Redux: The Spinster

At day's end, a woman well along in her thirties and still single, wearily trudges through the garden gate and up the walk.

Her mother, seeing her daughter's approach through the window, suddenly rushes out onto the porch and clutches at her wildly beating breast.

"Oh, Praise Jaysus, Chelsea, there's rice all over your hair! You've gotten married!!"

"No, Ma. A chinaman threw up on me."