My wife and I have open lines of communication. I eavesdrop on her phone conversations and she reads my Blog. But we have trouble getting on the same wavelength. On October 7, 2021, she read about the ketchup prank our granddaughter Zofia played on me and asked if this actually happened and if so, was it a long time ago. I wondered where she had been because the ketchup stains were the talk of the household that very week. And why did she think I would make up something so innocuous. Yet if I write that my Uncle Hector grew a third head in his armpit, the conversation goes like this:
Mol: Who is Uncle Hector?
Geoff: Surely you remember him. He was the one arrested at our wedding reception for setting fire to the juggler’s car.
Mol: We did not have a juggler at our wedding.
Geoff: Right, Hector set fire to the car at the Bachelor Party but he was arrested at the wedding reception.
Mol: Why didn’t you tell me you had a juggler at the Bachelor Party? I thought we agreed not to keep secrets from each other.
Geoff: I had to sign a confidentiality agreement. Technically we now have to give up our third born son which is why I am breaching the agreement.
Mol: Is Hector the one married to Aunt Mary?
Geoff: Who is Aunt Mary?
Mol: Don’t you remember? She smashed your hand into a plate of ketchup at our wedding reception.
You guys would have been great on the Newlyweds game show!
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We have missed many opportunities to seize our promised 15 minutes of fame.
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We all wish we had been guests at your wedding, sounds a lot of fun!
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I was in a daze. As far as I know, you were all there.
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I remember it distinctly being that I was stuck at a table with both Hector & Mary
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Whoever put you at that Table should be fired.
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I believe we got an invite from your brothers pet iguana Malevolence the Righteous
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I can just tell that you have been to some crazy parties in your day!
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I wish I had been invited to that wedding, though some may not have remembered me being there. or what the acrobats did to the chandelier.
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I cannot believe I forgot about the chandelier, considering how many years it took for us to pay it off.
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This sounds like a perfectly normal conversation.
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To us, our conversations are normal but we disagree on who is responsible for causing that.
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Well, sad to say, but sometimes normal just happens to the best of us.
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A year ago I got hearing aids. I preferred the conversations that followed the lines of what I thought I heard. I have to moderate a student panel. Your mother ate what animal? My mother never ate an animal. Oh, she navigated the channel. No, I said I have to moderate a student panel. But you just said she didn’t eat an animal… Ashley’s coming over. What ashtray got tumped over? Do we even have an ashtray? … yeah. You never told me about that that! Why would I? You were there. I was?
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I think I was there!
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I have to say often people remember different things about the same event. And even they remember the same thing, they interpret them differently. That’s normal. I am not saying that consensus is not normal. LOL.
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An interesting thought. Perhaps consensus is an indication that a common memory must be faulty!
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Wait, you had me at, “she reads my Blog”. My sister is the only one I know who reads my blog. My husband is singularly uninterested, which is probably a good thing considering some of the things I post about him.
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My wife’s readership is inhibitor enough but then I have to fear that she will email non-readers about posts that get me in trouble.
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totally relate Judy — I’m lucky if peeps I know in RL read even the headlines… Geoff, this must be what keeps marriages fresh?
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Sometimes you do not do things on purpose but they work out for the best anyway!
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Such conversations are good for the imagination. I hope they continue and that you two discover the past in more creative ways. Thanks for making me laugh this Sunday morning, Geoff. 🙂
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Imagination and laughter are definitely two of the good things in life.
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Haha this is excellent it reminds me of an advert that ran in the UK some years back about a couple having a conversation where he remembers one thing and his wife remembers it differently.
Him “Oh yes l remember when we first met, you wore that lovely red dress!
Her “It was blue!”
Him “We had a great meal in a fancy restaurant and a lovely evening after at yours…
Her “We had chips and then you had me down a darkened lane!!”
They were the days eh? Uncle Hector would remember.
Hey Geoff, I noticed you requested access to the new blog a few days back. I don’t often check that email yet as the blog is still in build mode. Sorry for my later response now.
You are more than welcome to come on board the small team working with me on the blog creation itself; however, the blog isn’t yet live. It is being constructed, and new features are being added and tweaked weekly.
Hence, the ‘reader’ ‘s initial role is to observe and comment on the flow of navigation, structure, content, and how well the administration looks visually. There is current and archived content to view anyway also. But if this quiet initial role appeals to you before Earthly Comforts goes to public viewing, you are more than welcome to join the small team. Just let me know how you feel about.
The blog will be going live sometime in mid-July
Regards Rory 🙂
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Looking forward to your Blog going live next month. You are always up to something and I don’t want to miss any of it.
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Hey Geoff, worry not, you’ll not miss anything 🙂
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LOL! Humor in marriage is so important and I am guessing you all don’t have problems with that. 🙂
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Yep, my wife laughs at me and I feel obliged to laugh along too.
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😄
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The best strategy!
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Our problem may be too much humor!
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I would choose that problem over many others. 🙂
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Now appearing in Vegas for two shows nightly… By the way, my wife rarely reads my blog. 🤣
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She probably trusts you more than my wife trusts me!
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#dadjokes
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The very best kind of jokes!
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You should definitely sell this story to the Heinz Corporation.
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An excellent idea, the kind of thing I never think of!
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My wife and I occasionally veer off-track when one of us is kinda-sorta-not really paying attention when the other is speaking. For example, I find it now of no value to speak to her when she is working on her computer. Several times we have had conversations while she is logged on, of which she later has no recollection of – ones she actively participated in at the time. She also knows to wait on commercials when I am watching sports – same thing happens – I’ll engage her in conversation and later think she’s talking about the same subject for the first time. And now that we’re getting older…this should be fun…
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My wife used to be defensive when I caught her not listening. Now she just admits, “Yeah I wasn’t listening. You keep saying the same boring things!”😎
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I hope Zofia doesn’t read your blog with your wife, otherwise she might say exactly the same line to her teacher😂
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I stir up a lot of trouble. That way I will be remembered!
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I am late getting here. Have they taken your son yet? I have wondered about the utility of those clauses that create liens on children after some time has passed. Especially if the child has grown
up to be a juggler who works bachelor parties. I have thought about taking those provisions out of my contracts.
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No one has come for my son yet. They are still spouting excuses about Covid-19 and labor shortages.
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My husband and I had this exact same conversation. Except for the ketchup thing. And neither of us has an Aunt Mary or an Uncle Hector. But he has definitely never told me there was a juggler at his bachelor party. So, basically the exact same conversation.
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Ha, so many shared experiences!
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