Randy D is thinking: (((Gee, not only does she laugh at my jokes, she also has perfect sandwich-making hands! Getting her down into my basement will be a cinch!)))&n... more
Randy D is thinking: (((Gee, not only does she laugh at my jokes, she also has perfect sandwich-making hands! Getting her down into my basement will be a cinch!))) She is thinking: (((His jokes aren’t funny at all, but I’ll humor him at least until lunch is over. I’m glad I received that alert about him and the sandwich factory he keeps in his basement dungeon. I’ll give him the slip at dessert by using poor grammar. Grrrrrrrr.)))~
I joke around all the time about deciding to get married (I was 22 years old when I dreamed up that gem), about my wife, about being married, but in actuality, I really do know it&... moreI joke around all the time about deciding to get married (I was 22 years old when I dreamed up that gem), about my wife, about being married, but in actuality, I really do know it’s been better for me than the life I was leading and would have continued to lead had I stayed single. Sure, in retrospect I can now see that I was way too young and definitely too immature to handle married life. At the time, I thought I knew everything.One of the most glaring and truly positive things that marriage has meant in my life is that had I not settled down, I probably would have been dead from AIDS or some other STD by now. I was drilling anything in a skirt, as the saying goes, a true hit-and-run artist. I couldn’t have kept track with notches on the bedpost, because it would have been reduced to sawdust. Being faithful in marriage was already ingrained in me as a principle, so when I said, “I do” to her, it also meant “I don’t” to all others.~ less
My wife seems to think that when I’m watching television or listening to the radio that I keep the volume much too high, which causes her to have to raise her v... more
My wife seems to think that when I’m watching television or listening to the radio that I keep the volume much too high, which causes her to have to raise her voice in order to be heard over the program. I contend that when she knows I’m trying to hear a program and she starts talking over the dialogue, that’s what causes me to raise the volume. If I were not trying to hear a program, it would be quite a different thing, and we do talk with each other on those occasions.She often seems to have no inkling whatsoever that the precise reason the program is on is that I am following what’s being said.When the situation is reversed and she is the one watching a show, her way of listening and following dialogue differs so greatly than mine in that she doesn’t focus on nor care about each word that’s being said.It sometimes boils down to, “Why is the volume so loud?”“Because I’m trying to hear it.””But I’m talking to you.”... less
