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This familiar tale melds two elements common to adultery legends: the spouse who receives poetic justice after unjustly suspecting a partner of unfaithfulness (Guise and Dolls) and the revenge-seeking mate who ends up harming the wrong person by mistake (Rubber Check). Examples: Variations: In his article It Was a DeSoto, Louie W. Attebery writes about locating three articles that ran in the Denver Post on consecutive days in 1960 and reported a story similar to the legend. In this case, a driver hired to deliver a load of concrete for a house addition grew irate after he waited for an hour and no one showed up at the home to take delivery. Suspecting that the owner was getting even with him for winning a $20 bet, the driver dumped his load of wet mix into the left rear window of the owner's DeSoto. The owner, in turn, claimed he had called the concrete company 90 minutes earlier and canceled the order. Attebery notes, however, that the two men were friends, and that the whole incident might have been planned as a publicity stunt for the concrete company. The legend has been repeatedly told about Don Tyson of Tyson Foods Inc. In that version of the tale, Tyson's wife spots the chicken king's expensive new Cadillac convertible parked in front of some other woman's house, calls a cement company, and has a truck come over to fill his car with concrete. In 1992, public relations folks at Tyson headquarters said the story was apocryphal and that they'd been hearing it for 20 years. Holt, David and Bill Mooney. Spiders in the Hairdo. Little Rock: August House, 1999. ISBN 0-87483-525-9 (pp. 18-19). The Big Book of Urban Legends. New York: Paradox Press, 1994. ISBN 1-56389-165-4 (p. 24).
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