That Tired Business Man (1916)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Comedy, Short
Release: 1916-08-09
Director: N/A
Writers: N/A
Language: None | English
Stars: Harry Myers , Rosemary Theby
Runtime: min
Awards: N/A
AKA: That Tired Business Man , That Tired Business Man (United States of America)
Plot: Hubby after the day's work is done usually stops for a little lunch and a few cocktails while Wifey waits at home for him with a hot supper. Hubby usually reaches home in an ugly mood finding nothing to his liking for supper and usually leaving the table without eating. Wifey finally insists on knowing what is wrong when Hubby tells her if she had to work for one day as hard as he has to she would be tired too. Wifey thinks for a moment and tells Hubby that she will take his place at the office for one day and he must take her place at home. Hubby thinking he has a snap consents. The next morning Wifey give Hubby a taste of what she receives each morning eating in silence and then asking what time it is to find she must rush off to the office. Hubby asks if she hasn't forgotten something. She remembers and gives him a long list of things to be done for the day. That does not satisfy him as he wants to be kissed. She hastily kisses him and leaves. Hubby goes over the list then decides that his wife has been too easy with the maid. He goes into the kitchen and there discovers a speck on a dish. The maid is very angry, looks at the plate and slams Hubby with the dish cloth and quits her job. Hubby does not know what to do; he phones his wife who now is in the office working, that the maid has left. Wifey tells Hubby the work must be done and that he should do it. Hubby does not like the idea, but decides he might try. He goes into the kitchen and begins to wash the dishes, but somehow cannot do it. After an hour or two of waiting without having washed the dishes he empties them into the ice chest and phones his wife again to send up a maid, but to his surprise the clerk answers the phone. When Wifey finds her husband is on the phone, she tells the clerk to tell him that she has gone to get a drink with a friend.
IMDB:tt0922635