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Things went badly with Isabeau?

1,281 posted on 10/30/2014 6:03:35 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I am not tense. I am very, very alert.)

Haz funz!

(What did you do?)

1,282 posted on 10/30/2014 6:06:31 AM PDT by ArGee (What are you reading this for? It's a tagline for Pete's sake!)

Good morningall.

Long night last night. I made the mistake of doing the time warp again. It took a while to get back to now.

1,283 posted on 10/30/2014 6:07:31 AM PDT by ArGee (What are you reading this for? It's a tagline for Pete's sake!)

1,284 posted on 10/30/2014 6:09:21 AM PDT by ArGee (What are you reading this for? It's a tagline for Pete's sake!)

STILL. I’m here. Why don’t these words work anymore?

1,285 posted on 10/30/2014 6:09:57 AM PDT by ArGee (What are you reading this for? It's a tagline for Pete's sake!)

I think I spelled it right. It’s supposed to take me into the cave, not Kalifornnia.

1,286 posted on 10/30/2014 6:11:10 AM PDT by ArGee (What are you reading this for? It's a tagline for Pete's sake!)

1,287 posted on 10/30/2014 6:12:03 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Advent begins in one month. Clean house!)

Using a tablet or “smart device”?
Autocowrecker is killing your words if you are.

1,288 posted on 10/30/2014 6:25:21 AM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)

To: ThomasThomas

At my age, I don’t think they will turn me down.

1,289 posted on 10/30/2014 6:27:14 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Please don't feed the Park Bears. They will become dependent and soon want cell phones.)

1,290 posted on 10/30/2014 6:28:07 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Please don't feed the Park Bears. They will become dependent and soon want cell phones.)

1,291 posted on 10/30/2014 6:34:34 AM PDT by null and void (And I think Kevin Bacon is doomed.)

xyzzy and plough. They used to take me to this really interesting cave with dragons and trolls and a pirate.

1,292 posted on 10/30/2014 7:08:34 AM PDT by ArGee (What are you reading this for? It's a tagline for Pete's sake!)

A cold voice says “plough”...

1,293 posted on 10/30/2014 7:09:07 AM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)

OK. To be fair, I was using a computer called a ‘Vax’ when I last used those words.

1,294 posted on 10/30/2014 7:09:17 AM PDT by ArGee (What are you reading this for? It's a tagline for Pete's sake!)

There are so few who remember those....

1,295 posted on 10/30/2014 7:51:14 AM PDT by Silentgypsy (Mind your atomic bonds.)

To: Tax-chick; Darksheare; ArGee; null and void

Isabeau was a good guess, but no.

I was a jerk by asking what would have been a perfectly innocent question 35 years ago, about a topic that is no longer moot. I was also a jerk for asking a totally unnecessary and rude question.

Almost verbatim, 9:15± p.m., October 29, 2014, MSM in her bathroom, SM in living room.

MSM: Are you going to mail anything tomorrow?: SM: I don’t plan to. You need me to mail something for you?
MSM: No.: SM: You need stamps?
MSM: No.
[Thinking]: SM: Need an errand run somewhere around the post office?
MSM: No.: SM: [said sincerely, but with ominous hint of where this will go] Well, what is it you wanna know or want me to do?
MSM: Nothing. I was just curious.
[Silence. SM is frustrated. He's played this game, but he's never played the following card.]: SM: Are you going shopping tomorrow for some red knee-high socks? [said far too cheerfully]
[Referee starts to pull yellow card, decides to leave it in his pocket. Boxing ref admonishes "below the belt."]
MSM: What? No. [Pause] What was that for?: SM: I was just curious. [said too manner of factly]
[Yellow card! My name goes in the referee’s book. Football referee throws flag. Fifteen yards, personal foul, unnecessary roughness.]
[Silence.]: SM: I’m sorry. But I know how you think. You wanted to ask something or find out something when you asked about mail. What do you want to ask? [said sincerely]
[Silence]
MSM: Well . . . if you don’t have to go to the post office . . . I was wondering if you could mop the kitchen floor and clean the girls’ tub tomorrow. [partly because she never wants to inconvenience anyone, but primarily because: 50% genetic material from one side of her family, as that side will endearingly laugh about].: SM: Yeah. Sure. I can do both.
[Pause - Knowing not to ask the next question because I’ve asked similar questions countless times over 30+ years and always received the same angry and true answer, so as the words come out of my mouth I realize I have committed a serious breach of marital etiquette and respect . . . but the words start coming out of my mouth): SM: Why didn’t you . . . [no. don't go there. danger will robinson] . . . just ask me [no. all thrusters in reverse, but I can't find the off switch for my mouth] . . . if I would mop the kitchen floor and clean the girls’ tub tomorrow? [said sincerely but with a noticeable skootch of topic-specific experienced peevishness]
[The referee doesn’t hesitate. Red card!!!! No argument.. I begin walking off the pitch and toward MSM's bathroom.]
MSM: Because my brain doesn’t work like that!! [anger, tears].
[Sincere apologies and hugs]. I feel this tall, as I should.]
Ultimate result: Doghouse. Tub cleaned last night and kitchen floor mopped by 7:45 this morning. Will be cooking a special dinner for tonight.

1,296 posted on 10/30/2014 8:06:14 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational)

Wow, that’s complicated and indirect even by my standards.

On the other hand, Pat just asked, apropos of nothing, “Is there anywhere else you plan to go today?” I’m sure his real point could be figured out, if anyone cared to make the effort ...

1,297 posted on 10/30/2014 8:45:16 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Advent begins in one month. Clean house!)

And that’s it for you.

1,298 posted on 10/30/2014 8:45:42 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Advent begins in one month. Clean house!)

Pat probably wants to use his Invisible Ability to psych someone out.

My aide is just finishing, and he always does such a good job!

1,299 posted on 10/30/2014 8:59:17 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Please don't feed the Park Bears. They will become dependent and soon want cell phones.)

I might go to the post office and get stamps, and then Pat could stare at people and freak them out. Or we could go to Walmart for potatoes: Pat’s going to make a large quantity of mashed potatoes to take to the Missionaries of the Poor on Saturday.

1,300 posted on 10/30/2014 9:10:57 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Advent begins in one month. Clean house!)

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