My mate Steve
went out with Velma from Scooby Doo. We could all see that she was trouble, but he wouldn't have listened, no matter how big our hints were.
Anyway, they got wed and after a very short marriage (they still had cake left) he found out she was having an affair with someone from work, so he packed his bags and left before she even got home, leaving a note for her to find.
We pointed out that we almost told him so and he agreed that he wouldn't have listened anyway.

Now, it wasn't so much the mariage that was the waste of money. No, the person who wasted the money was the new bloke. He was, as sad as it sounds, still living with his mum. The upshot of this is that he had little overheads and apart from going halves on the household bills, he had quite a shedload of cash accumulating in the bank.

Then he met my mate's wife, and then moved in with her, who then promptly mined away at all his savings and now he has hardly any spare cash at all every month. He was due to retire early on his savings, but can't now and as such has to work another 16 years until mandatory retirement age, after which he'll most likely need to get a job at B&Q or somewhere similar.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 13:56, 2 replies)

I was really expecting a terrible pun at the end
...since "went out with Velma from Scooby Doo" was such an obvious set-up.

Congratulations! Rather than convincing us it was a real story, with a surprise pun, you've invented the "anti-shaggy-dog-story" ("shaved dog story"?) -- convince us it was a pun, then surprise us with a real story.

Well played, sir!
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 14:01, closed)

and kudos yourself
for shoe-horning in a Scooby Doo based pun with 'shaggy dog'
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 14:31, closed)