Mine was not that happy a story. Wife and I had not worked out any age and she was too nervous to work one out. That's ok.
But then one day I had traded in a gun I did not like and was sitting on a $90 credit I needed to use up. My older daughter was always asking about the pink rifle at the store and that day it was on sale at $90 out the door. My daughter was with me and giving me those big goggly eyes, so...
30 minutes later I am holding a cardboard box and all I have to do is get it in the safe without spousal discussion. I get the door open, the kids rush past me and in the house, I get one foot over the threshold, and the I see my wife is at her computer with her back turned to me.
Mission impossible just became possible, except....
As I lifted my rear foot to compete entry, my daughter yells "Hey, Ima! Guess what Abba bought for me? A Pink Rifle!"
I froze and in that instant my wife's head pivoted 180 degrees like a screech owl, or a woman possessed by a calderian demon, and her eyes locked onto mine full of rage.
The only words I could muster were a weak, "Kids, go upstairs..."
But then one day I had traded in a gun I did not like and was sitting on a $90 credit I needed to use up. My older daughter was always asking about the pink rifle at the store and that day it was on sale at $90 out the door. My daughter was with me and giving me those big goggly eyes, so...
30 minutes later I am holding a cardboard box and all I have to do is get it in the safe without spousal discussion. I get the door open, the kids rush past me and in the house, I get one foot over the threshold, and the I see my wife is at her computer with her back turned to me.
Mission impossible just became possible, except....
As I lifted my rear foot to compete entry, my daughter yells "Hey, Ima! Guess what Abba bought for me? A Pink Rifle!"
I froze and in that instant my wife's head pivoted 180 degrees like a screech owl, or a woman possessed by a calderian demon, and her eyes locked onto mine full of rage.
The only words I could muster were a weak, "Kids, go upstairs..."