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.
Just realized how much I miss the Weekly World News.
And he would probably still be in woods if he hadn’t run out of beer?
The drinking, drugs and multiple mistresses were tolerable, but a person really must draw the line at excessing gardening.
And there’s an ad for “In the Woods with Phil” right beside the article lol.
Very instructive.
Then again.
And again.
(Then she made a big deal of finding it in her garden, hidden behind a shrub...)
Stella, dear...
Women are socialized to nag men to solve problems.
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.
The woods are full of guys during deer season for the same reason.
Advertising algorithms are getting more and more effective.
Clicked the link, instantly regretted it. I mean, what is it with the Brits and their wonky teeth? Simply disgusting and unhealthy. Yuck!
I saw this story om FBN this week and everybody got a good laugh. I failed to see the humor. The guy slunk off to the woods like a coward instead on establishing boundries with his wife or telling her he was leaving. Meanwhile she spent 10 years looking for him because he never had the decency to let her know that he was leaving. Great guy. Funny story.
I think he’s awesome.
Hope they put his mug on a postage stamp.
The wife would have been happier with a welfare cheat.
Sounds like Sidney James’ nagging wife in the Carry On movie series.
Reminds me of a joke an old comedian said once:
“One can understand what would compel a grown man to wake up four hours before sunrise, drive into the middle of the deep, dark forest, get down in a freezing pond wearing waders and holding a shotgun.
Until you hear the man say, “B*tch won’t find me here!” “
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