A mustard-yellow suitcase with two mismatched knitted mittens hanging from its handle against a lilac background.

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Rita Rudner

Whenever I date a guy, I think, "Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?"

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A joke that flips the usual dating worry. Instead of asking whether a man is good partner material, the speaker jumps ahead to a future divorce-style arrangement and asks whether he'd be pleasant company for the kids on weekends. The humour is in that pessimistic planning.

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