The $13,000 kiss: Saudi man pays hefty price for extramarital peck

You wouldn’t mind making your first mortgage payment of $100,000, nor would you mind making your first down payment of $10,000 on a new vehicle, but would you struggle to make a payment of $13,000 for one kiss?

A man in Saudi Arabia paid his wife $13,000 so that she can forgive him for making out with their Ethiopian maid, According to the Saudi Gazette.

The man’s six-year-old daughter reportedly saw her dad kissing the maid and she went and informed her mother. It was initially reported that the two were engaged in an affair.

But a close source to the family said, “The kiss was not a love affair, it was but a kiss.”

Saudi Gazette

The furious wife was getting ready to call the police when neighbors intervened to stop her and to mediate a deal between her and her husband. According to the deal, the maid’s sponsorship will be reassigned while the husband is restricted to recruit maids over the age of 50.