While in Italy on business, a married man has an affair with a young Italian woman. Before he is scheduled to catch a flight back to the United States, she tells him that she may be pregnant. Concerned about financial support, the woman brings up the subject as to how he will care for her child without his wife finding out.

He then tells her that when she has the child, to send him a post card with the word "spaghetti" written on the back of it. Then he will set up an account at an Italian bank so she can have money to take care of the child.

Nine months later, he comes home from work, only to find his wife holding a post card from Italy. With a puzzled look on her face, she asks her husband about the post card and hands it over for him to read.

As she watches her husband read the card, his hands began to shake as a sullen look appears on his face. As his face loses all color, he attempts to read the message his Italian mistress wrote to him.

It reads:

Spaghetti. Spaghetti. And spaghetti. Two with meatballs. One without. Send extra sauce!