The Sheer Negligee

One day Grandpa is feeling romantic. He decides to buy grandma a sheer negligee.

He goes to the local Fredrick’s of Hollywood store and asks for a sheer negligee. The clerk says “here’s a nice one for $50.”

Grandpa looks and says “got anything even sheerer?”

“Here’s one for $100.”

“Good, but got anything even nicer?”

“Here’s one for $200.”

“Is that your absolutely best, sheerest negligee?”

“Well, sir, if you want to spend $500, here is our very best, very sheerest negligee.”

“I’ll take it!”

Grandpa takes the package home and hands it to grandma. “Here’s something I bought for you! Why don’t you run upstairs and put it on and model it for me?”

So grandma goes upstairs and opens the box. The negligee is beautiful and so sheer and transparent you can hardly tell it’s there. In fact, she decides that it’s so sheer that grandpa (whose vision is failing a bit) probably wouldn’t even be able to tell if she’s wearing it. So, not wanting to damage the delicate negligee, grandma comes downstairs naked.

“Damn!” exclaims grandpa.

“What’s the problem, dear?” says grandma.

“For $500, they could at least have ironed the thing!”