Good – Having the ability to save a little money each month toward a gun-related purchase
Better – Being within one month of achieving a level of saving that will allow you to buy a new gun
Even Better – Your gun shop has the gun you want and the clerk says that no-one else has asked about it.
Good – Doing your fair share around the house
Better – Recognizing that your spouse is a little overwhelmed and trying to help out
Even Better – Scrubbing the kitchen from top to bottom, gathering up the laundry from the sundry hampers, and doing several loads of laundry on a hot Sunday afternoon.
Even Better Than That – Noticing that your lovely and very hard-working spouse has not done her own laundry for quite a while, so you do a load specifically made up of her clothes, but throw in one of your work shirts and a pair of pants so you’ll have something fresh to wear on Monday.
Not So Good – Not noticing the pen in the pocket of your work shirt when you throw it in the washer.
Definitely Not Good – Not noticing the pen when you throw the load of laundry in the dryer
Bad – Your loving and very worthy spouse being the one to find that almost all of her favorite shirts, shorts, work pants, and work tops are now dotted with black permanent ink.
Worse – Your clothing in the same load doesn’t have a dot on it.
Even Worse – It’s not the first time you’ve done this.
Not Sure If It’s Good Or Bad – You fixed your leather recliner over the weekend, so you at least have somewhere to sleep.
Good – Your loving, wonderful spouse, after becoming emotional about the loss of her best clothes, both of the work and play variety, decides that she needs you alive, so you continue to breathe for another day.
Definitely Bad – Emptying your “Gun Fund” to give to your loving, worthy, irate, and hopefully forgiving spouse to replace all of the clothes you’ve ruined.
Maybe Bad – She refuses the money, for now, while she investigates how much it’s going to cost to replace said clothing.
Probably Bad – Your spouse informs you that the stores have a very limited selection of summer clothes, as they are stocking up on fall collections at the moment, so she may not be able to find replacements as inexpensively as she did with the originals.
Good – I’m still breathing. I may be an idiot, but I’m a live idiot.
Yep, it’s been one of those days for the past 24 hours. How have all of you been?
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Mad Jack
/ July 3, 2012How am I doing? Better than you, and that’s for sure.
I may be an idiot, but I’m a live idiot.
The benefit of this state is clearly debatable.
I am trying to remember just when it was that I pulled a bone headed stunt like that one, and I’m coming up empty – but we’ve got six months left in the year, so I’ll probably step in something.
I think I’m going to send a link to this post to Main Lady and see if she appreciates me just a little more. I’ll bet she does.
Well, take heart. The dog loves you. The kids probably think you’re pretty much okay, and if they don’t a trip to Disney!!! during the school year will put their attitude right. Your S.O. will likely forgive and may even forget once she calms down and surrounds a few shots of gin.
Sorry about the gun money.
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daddybear71
/ July 3, 2012The gun will come. Irish Woman seems to have forgiven me, and we’ll work through the clothing issue as best we can.
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Wing and a Whim
/ July 3, 2012Good: It’s only clothes. The house didn’t burn down, the kids aren’t in the ER (or sporting fresh new casts), the minivan isn’t wrecked, there was no tornado, you’re still employed. And you had enough cash to cover replacement costs
Also good: you still have your loving spouse, and she still loves you.
My sympathies; I’ve had attempts to be helpful go all wrong like that, too.
Should you see if this would be a good time for a trip further south, to a land where “fall collections” are for approximately the same weather as “summer collections” where you are? (If vacation time is available…)
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daddybear71
/ July 3, 2012Wing, you’re a genius!
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Auntie J
/ July 4, 2012If it makes you feel any better, I washed an ant trap today.
Yeah.
Discovered that when I was moving clothes from the washer to the dryer.
Oh, and Small Fry, after being told to NOT pour water on the neighbor’s cat (who was frolicking with my kids out in the yard), decided it would be a great idea to stop filling a quart jug with water from the kitchen…and instead turned on the hose outside, so she could give the cat a bubblebath.
That was around 11 this morning.
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