A Chicago woman reportedly decided she had endured enough of her husband’s sense of humor, especially after he refused to remove a provocative sign hanging in their living room.
The sign read, “If you want to know who’s boss around here, start something.”
Mrs. William H. Zeno told the court in 1913 that she repeatedly asked her husband to take it down because visitors saw it as an insult. Some guests, she claimed, stared at the message and then abruptly left the house.
Her husband refused to budge. Mrs. Zeno responded by asking for a divorce, leaving the court to decide whether one obnoxious household sign had helped bring a marriage to its end.
Sues Over Husband’s Sign
CHICAGO. — Because her husband would not remove a sign from their living room which read, “If you want to know who’s boss around here, start something,” Mrs. William H. Zeno wants a divorce from her husband.
“My husband insisted that sign must remain on the wall in our house where everybody could see it,” Mrs. Zeno testified. “I protested right along, but he wouldn’t take it down, and now I just won’t stand it any longer. Everyone that calls stares at it and construes it as an insult to themselves. I had callers who eyes the sign and then abruptly left.”
The court has the affair under advisement.
Source: The Bamberg Herald. Bamberg, S.C. March 20, 1913.
