Monday, January 19, 2015

FAMILIARITY BREEDS… FAMILIARITY


Dazza is driving over the Brooklyn Bridge one day, when He
sees His Girlfriend Shazza about to throw herself off.

Dazza slams on the brakes and yells, "Shazza what in the Blazes d'ya think ya doin'?"

Shazza turns around with a tear in her eye and says,
"G'Bye, Dazza. You got me pregnant, so now I'm gunna kill meself".

Dazza gets a lump in his throat when he hears this.
"Shazza", he says "Fair dinkum love, not only are ya a top root, but
you're a real sport too!" and drives off

Spending a lot of time with TLW (The Little Woman) has led to certain anticipation and understanding from both of us, as she heals from her recent ruptured Achilles tendon. The problem is we are communicating.

For instance, since she became a cripple, albeit on a short-term basis, she has decided to take on things that she shouldn’t be doing. Recently we went to rehab and then we had to run some errands. Normally I would go into the store and she would wait in the car. The reason being that she hurts if she stands too much because she is uneven. Now don’t get me wrong, mentally I think she is balanced, but when she stands, she is uneven, because her boot that protects her bad foot is higher than her shoe on her other foot.

And the conversations are getting complicated. Once I needed distilled water for my CPAP machine. She decided she would go into the drug store to pick up her prescription and pick up a gallon of the water.

Her: “Now what kind of water do you need?”
“Distilled water”
Her: “Distilled water, gotcha.”
“Remember: distilled water runs deep.”
Her: “DISTILLED water runs deep”.

We stop at another store and we park in a parking space that is handicapped.
“This is a handicapped space!”
Her: “Well right now I am handicapped and you are staying in the car, if anyone shows up handicapped, just give them the space.”
Suddenly this guy pulls up to the curb next to the entrance and she says:
“You should do like that lazy sun of a gun!”
Into the store she limps, dragging her booted foot, just like Bigfoot rambling through the forest! I’m thinking if anyone sees this, they will think: WHAT KIND OF A lazy S.O.B. HUSBAND LETS HIS WIFE HOBBLE INTO A STORE WHILE HE SITS IN THE CAR COMFORTABLY?

The lazy sun of a gun leaves and I decide to pull up in his spot so TLW doesn’t have to struggle. Suddenly the door opens and she is coming, carrying her purchases and says as she opens the door: “I was looking for the car and saw this other car here, thinking another lazy sun of a gun pulled up!”

Anticipation is everything in a marriage: you have to know when to duck, when to keep your mouth shut and when to do something. It helps to do something out of the ordinary that brings happiness to the other side of the equation. In TLW’s case, tea is big. You have tea over everything, with lunch, and afternoons, you better be loaded with tea bags for TLW. On hot summer days when we eat lunch, I’m hankering for a cold brew and we get hot tea. Yearning for the nice cup of coffee? Tea it is, I guess it is that Irish pallet of hers that tea is so important. So what do I do, every now and then I put on the tea kettle and do it without her asking, set up the cups and pour, even providing the milk! She has gone from surprised happiness to taking it in stride. I’m thinking along the lines of maybe Irish whiskey.




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