DEAR ABBY: I howled when I read the letter you printed from the wife who asked her husband, "Honey, if your mother and I were in a canoe, and the canoe tipped over and we were both drowning, and you could save only one of us -- which one would you save?" She said she was devastated because her husband replied, "I'd save my mother because I owe her more."
I know if my daughter-in-law were to put that question to my son, he would reply, "Of course I would save you -- my mother can walk on water." How about that? -- BETTE IN SEAL BEACH, CALIF.
DEAR BETTE: You are a wit! It's a wise son who knows his own mother, and a diplomatic husband who knows when to throw a life preserver to his wife.