Married couples enjoy all sorts of benefits to their relationship. There are also some strange difficulties one does not fully comprehend when standing next to their beloved in front of the priest.
There’s the issue of how one squeezes the toothpaste tube: from the bottom carefully or just squeeze that b@stard in the middle for all you’re worth? Pick up your clothes immediately upon changing or let them “relax” for a while? Hang towels up to dry or fire them into a pile somewhere? Whatever the case, arguing about every simple disagreement is a sure recipe for marital discord. One must choose one’s battles carefully.
This morning I had a fight with Victor about towels. I can’t tell you the details because it wasn’t interesting enough to document at the time, but it was basically me telling Victor I needed to buy new bath towels, and Victor insisting that I NOT buy towels because I “just bought new towels“. Then I pointed out that the last towels I’d bought were hot pink beach towels, and he was all “EXACTLY” and then I hit my head against the wall for an hour.
Unlike our faithful protagonist Victor, I’ve learned that arguing over towels or something similar can bring the law of unintended consequences into play.
And not in an exactly good way.
…as Victor gave me a kiss goodbye he lovingly whispered, “You are not allowed to bring any more *&^%$# towels in this house or I will strangle you“. And that was exactly what I was still echoing through my head an hour later, when Laura and I stopped our shopping carts and stared up in confused, silent awe at a display of enormous metal chickens, made from rusted oil drums.
One must learn to carefully negotiate and calmly and politely state one’s case. Otherwise, one just might end up with a huge steel chicken on one’s porch.
Pick your battles carefully. And be careful what you demand; someone may just give it to you.
(sticking head out of LurkCave after nap –yawn…) #84 mharper, This was about two weeks ago I went there. It is the place right on the freeway, “between Tidwell and Parker” that was rebuilt after the fire. The fire was mostly in the warehouse behind it but the showroom had considerable damage as well and the whole thing was rebuilt.… Read more »
Yeah, tell that to the two closers who threw 107 and 95 pitches in the Virginia/South Carolina game tonight.
All-SEC championship series – Go Gators!
How the White House press corps and Chrissy the Spitter continue to report on Obumma.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geZ7MV8bXYE&feature=related
#73 Lurker The Gallery Furniture on I45N burned down a few years ago and I don’t know if they rebuilt at the same location — I am rarely on the North Frwy. I once tagged along with my husband when he was shopping for a TV chair, and we stopped by the original Gallery that was in a different location… Read more »
tRick Dastardly Perry will always talk a tough game about securing the border but when it comes to action, he’s just a CL.
The Republicans were okay with supporting the anti-sanctuary city bill when they knew the dems could block it by procedure. Now they find themselves in the briar patch. They will bail, Hat Trick will claim he tried, and we get another Straus sandwich.
Need to go to bed now.
Any comment I could make on this story is likley to get me in trouble.
It would make my Weiner entendres pale in comparison,
Explains cinco de mayo.
The family and I will be leaving for Florida in an hour. We’re talking ot the house sitter now. You all behave.
#77 Darren
France surrendered.
Mexican leaders say the soldiers, who had just been deployed to Nuevo Laredo, didn’t know the area, got lost and then made their way through Bridge Two. Is it me or does it seem that the Mexican military gets lost alot around the southern United States’ border? It’s important to note that CBP did not tell us about the potentially… Read more »
CHICAGO (WLS) – Chicago’s new top cop says the accessibility to firearms in America is an extension “of government-sponsored racism” that goes back to the days of slavery and Jim Crow. Speaking to parishoners at St. Sabina Church earlier this month, Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy took to the microphone after Father Michael Pfleger spoke about gun control. So, lack… Read more »
Hey gang! Lets have three cheers for the Proven Conservative Leadership of the People’s House of the State of Texas! AUSTIN – A bill that would prohibit federal Transportation Security Administration agents from conducting intrusive pat-downs at Texas airports suffered a potentially lethal setback today after House Speaker Joe Straus said that the bill, as written, would not be considered… Read more »
RE: Japanese Sunflowers: The article mentioned that they wanted to plant thousands of them so that they could be seen from space and also to help buoy the Japanese spirit. I am really glad that they are our allies, they were dayam scary as enemies.
sorry, I’m heat-exhausted and got my days confused. From yesteday’s posts: (sticks head out of LurkCave, into mild humidity and wildly growing green grass –YAY!! ) Hello Hamsterousians! So many topics, so little time… First of all, prayers and stuff to those who request ’em. Second, the mention of boring furniture stores jogged my recent memory of my first trip… Read more »
At least they make the place look “happier”.
This is interesting:
I never knew that sunflowers could decontaminate radioactive soil; has anybody else heard such a thing?
This whiney beyotch first response was to contact CAIR, that in and of itsself tells me it was a set-up from the beginning. Osman is a proud Muslim from Herndon who wears a head scarf, or hijab, as a sign of her faith – a sign of her faith that she says got her fired from Air France. /snip “He… Read more »
Heh
I am reluctant to post this ‘cuz ST and Adee head may splode but here goes. Congress imposed a back-door ban on horse slaughter in 2006 to try to improve humane conditions, but a new government report says it has backfired and the same horses are now being exported for slaughter in Canada and Mexico, and they likely are suffering… Read more »
Still a buncha nancys.
Gators beat Vandy 6-4 to play for the national championship. And…
further to my #62 Her beauty only works if you know nothing else about her and have never heard her speak. If one knows anything about her, her beauty turns to warts.
#63 Shannon: you could be right, I think the A-10 Warthog is beautiful as well – but for different reasons.
Hmmmmm.
Hotness is clearly in the eye of the beholder.
#58 Adee: While the K family may be vile and a-moral, from a purely physical point of view, the woman is smokin hot! Once you witness the behavior or listen to the stoooooopidity coming from her mouth all that gets washed away.
#59 SD: I had the incredible pleasure of watching my dad make a hole in 1 a couple of years ago, I did not follow suit, so I lost the hole – dammit!
#25 Geezer: I hope they have to take double handfuls of their bovine excrement and lather their entire bodies in it and lay out in the sun til it turns into rock hard adobe. bovine excrement is waaaaaaaay too nice, I say human excrement, but first they need to make a few sammiches out of same and eat them! That… Read more »
Lightning Strikes Twice;
Kansas golfers hit consecutive holes-in-one on same hole in Hesston
DAYAAM!
What a waste of electrons.
Whew! Our long national mystery is finally over! Now we can get on with less important things.
Actor Peter Falk. R.I.P.
Good afternoon Hamsters. Started off at a pleasant 72 at 6 and enjoyed a brief light misting about 9 from a lonely dark cloud that drifted off. Have been partly to mostly cloudy most of the day and steadily breezy but no more rain. The ground is still slightly damp from Wednesday’s bounty–yea. Another day we can sip the sprinklers.… Read more »
There’s a guy on 290 in Brenham that sells those metal chickens. I can pick one up for
you, TT.
#51 SD:
The mind shudders to think of that. What kind of a moron would put his “florida” where his rape-victim could bite it?
#44 TT
The guys gots their own troubles and woes at the doc’s.
Well it could have been a LOT worse;
Woman bites tongue of Stamford sex attacker
Police arrest man seeking medical treatment
That’s okay, Katfish. I think I know where I can get a fugly big metal chicken that I can put in Boney’s front yard. 😉
#48 Katfish: IFn you aint on the edge your takin up to darned much space.
#45 – Man you are treading on the ragged EDGE!
*stepping S L O W L Y away from the BoneCrusher Dude………………*
He was very nice.
There were no cigarettes after.
/nuff said
#30 OletimerLin 😀
#44 TT: Can we SPECulate as to which procedure was performed? Did he at least talk nice to you first?
Just got back from the wimmin doctor.
You guys better be glad you’re guys.
NO details will be forthcoming.
#s 40 & 42 – Ya buncha racists!
/sarc OFF
🙂
#40 Its about wissin time. I hope that other malls institute the same policy. The whole glorification of being an ex-con is absurd. To me it is real simple, look and act like a thug and you get treated like one: NO WISSIN THUGS ALLOWED – PULL UP YOUR PANTS OR WISS-OFF
#40 hamous
What about female foundational garments?
Gunspoint draws a line:
#2 Sarge: What “offs me with urine” even more than the d!sh!t in chief making such an absurd gaffe, is that the LSM who will do everything possible to bury this story among the many more they bury in order to protect their party and their prez. Dya remember how many times they gave Dan Quayle crap about mis-spelling tater… Read more »
Bonecrusher #8;
Mrs. Darren and I are on our 14th and she’s fallen into the potty a couple of times. 😳