Posted on 10/18/2017 12:01:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It sounds like something from a comedy, but a British man who was believed missing for 10 years has returned after he said he hid in the woods to escape his nagging wife.
Fox News reports that 62-year-old Malcolm Applegate left his wife of three years after she would argue with him over his increased work as a gardener.
“For three years it was all right, we got on with one another and the gardening got too much for her,” Applegate told the Daily Mail.
Applegate told the news outlet that his wife did not like the increased amount of work he took on, and when she demanded him to lower his hours, he decided to leave instead.
“I just upped and left, I got fed up with her,” he said.
Applegate said he entered the woods and camped with two others and worked on the gardens at a community center for the elderly for an entire decade, during which he had no contact with his wife or family.
Fox News reports that Applegate eventually reconnected with his sister after he wrote her a letter.
“It had been a decade years since I’d last seen her, and in that time she had been to all of the Salvation Army hostels in the south trying to find me,” Applegate told the Daily Mail.
Truly, a hero for these troubled times.
Like my grandfather always said: "Tis better to live off the land in the woods than put up with a bitch".......
This story could only have ever come out of Britain.
Is this guy related to Andy Capp?
Andy Capp escaped to the pub to drink his beer... something that a nagged man in any culture might do. This fellow ran away to live in the woods so he could GARDEN. Only the Brits take their gardening so seriously.
Sometimes a man gotta do what a mans gotta do....
True. A tragic story would be one where he sent her to the woods. Permanently.
Runnin’ like a dog through the Everglades.../
i don’t get it, why did he leave the woods
Those Proverbs are something to put in a sampler on the wall.
"BATBOY!"
I miss it too.
“Prov 21:9 It is better to live in a corner of a roof Than in a house shared with a contentious woman. Prov 21:19 It is better to live in a desert land Than with a contentious and vexing woman.”
That door swings both ways. How about doing Ctrl + H and Find: “woman”; replace: “man”.
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"Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by American author Washington Irving published in 1819. Written while Irving was living in Birmingham, England, it is part of a collection entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
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Maybe it's something in the water.
Or maybe Birmingham women are just that unbearable.
I miss the World Chronicle
from "The Chronicle" (2001-2002) 
Because it was getting too crowded with other men
all of whom had the same thought !
you and i are destined to be friends.
Looking forward to meeting you in the woods
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