A husband and wife were having problems one evening and were giving one another the silent treatment. Being a heavy sleeper, the man realized that he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 AM the next morning for an early morning business flight to Chicago. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence AND LOSE, he wrote on a piece of paper, "Please wake me at 5:00 AM." The next morning the man woke up, only to discover it was 9:00 AM and that he had missed his flight. Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn't woken him when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed. The paper said, "It is 5:00 AM. Wake up."