I had been cornered into an intellectual showdown with a ceiling fan, and it was fighting dirty. I mean, the ceiling fan was all dirty, and the The Wife had “persuaded” me to clean the ceiling fan in preparation for having the...
I had been cornered into an intellectual showdown with a ceiling fan, and it was fighting dirty. I mean, the ceiling fan was all dirty, and the The Wife had “persuaded” me to clean the ceiling fan in preparation for having the...
It’s a fantastic Saturday afternoon. I’m horizontal on the couch with a great comic book. The Wife: “Do you want to clean the ceiling fans?” Me: “Not one bit” And I returned my nose back into the adventures of Asterix, just as he was about to thrash up Julius Ceaser’s bodyguards. The comic book...
I am convinced that the whole industry built around buying gifts has been erected by the female species to keep their husbands and boyfriends in check. They have craftily managed to put all men into this corner where we feel guilty before the occasion because we can’t think of what gift to buy, during...
A close friend of ours got married recently, but the wife and I couldn’t attend his wedding. So when we decided to catch up for dinner with them the first time after the wedding, we thought a nice, sweet little wedding gift would be appropriate. The wife was quite excited about buying them a...
Legend has it that Jon Nash invented Game Theory to figure out the best strategy that can be used to pick up girls in a bar. This eventually led to the Nobel Prize in Economics (and he also got the girl, By the...
“You don’t do any work around the house!” the wife said, making no effort to hide her obvious displeasure. A conversation that starts like this is rarely going to end agreeably, and at some level, I already knew that. But my consciousness thought it could squirm out of this one too, just as it...
I get back from work one day and notice that the wife is in a very good mood. She’s singing and all, and generally in a happy mood. This instinctively puts me on the defensive, I smell a trap. But even after some time, when I don’t get assigned to cut tomatoes, I’m begin...
It’s nearly one year since the wedding day, and it has been a very interesting learning experience for me. I have made the startling discovery that there is a secret code-language called “wifeese” that the wife speaks. It sounds and has words just like regular language, but has hidden meanings that take a lot...
As all you already know, I’ve been working on strategies to try to avoid watching movies. The wife is a big movie buff, and she drags me along to watch ALL movies. Her theory is that watching movies together helps us “connect and rejuvenate” our relationship, but the only thing I’m connecting with while...
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