For two years a man was having an affair with an Italian woman. One night, she confided in him that she was pregnant. Not wanting to ruin his reputation or his marriage, he gave her a large sum of money to return to Italy to have the child in secret. If she stayed in Italy to raise the child, he told her he'd also provide child support until the child turned 18.
She agreed, but asked how he would know when the baby was born. He told her to simply mail him a postcard and write "Spaghetti" on the back, to keep it discrete. On receipt of this card, he would arrange for the child support payments to begin.
One day, about 9 months later, he came home to his confused wife.
"Honey!" she said. "You got a very strange postcard in the mail today."
"Oh? Let's see it." he said.
The wife handed it over and watched as her husband read the card, turned white, and fainted.
On the card was written:
Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti.
Three with meatballs, two without.
Send extra sauce.
