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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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People ask "how are you?" I reply, "I dunno...wife hasnt told me today"
This is after 50 years of marriage...to the same person.
This is after 50 years of marriage...to the same person.
People learned not to ask my grandpa "how are you?" because he would tell them... in great detail.
I consider myself very fortunate...my wife does the cooking, dishes and even the laundry. Only she can do those things right! Am I blessed or what?
You and me, both, Soul Man! You and me both! Many say I'm spoiled, and I can't disagree. But, I think I spoil her right back, in other ways.
Our kids call us co-dependent. And as I just now got off the phone with her, being gone a few days, we heartily agree. We're co-dependent and proud of it!!
I'm a grumpy old bacheloring fart, dangitall! Now, git off my lawn!
Your wife sounds great. Is she married?
I agree with you, @G-Dog. It took me three tries to finally find the one who fully appreciates how helpless I am
. Seriously though, a couple who recognizes each other's strengths and weaknesses and whose relationship grows from there, has a foundation that is rock solid. Luck, no...working together...yes.
Yes, and I would not give her up for anything. She is one of a kind, a true soulmate!
On my first cruise in the Navy, all the junior enlisted guys in the band were required to make coffee for all the senior guys-one of those big commercial/restaurant makers(1966). I didn't drink coffee back then and I told them that I didn't know what I was doing. They said to fill the thing about 1/2 way from the deep sink about 125' down the passageway from our quarters. The deep sink had both fresh and salt water spigots. I did about 1/4 salt. They never had me make coffee again.
On my first cruise in the Navy, all the junior enlisted guys in the band were required to make coffee for all the senior guys-one of those big commercial/restaurant makers(1966). I didn't drink coffee back then and I told them that I didn't know what I was doing. They said to fill the thing about 1/2 way from the deep sink about 125' down the passageway from our quarters. The deep sink had both fresh and salt water spigots. I did about 1/4 salt. They never had me make coffee again.
Revenge of the enlisted men!
Friends, neighbors, and kinfolk, I'm here to tell you, I lucked out so massively in that dept. that I've spent the rest of my life waiting for the karmic scales to balance out. Literally the first woman I met when I was discharged in 1969 became my wife, and we're still swapping dishwashing 50 years later. If I was custom ordering with an unlimited budget, I couldn't have drawn better specs. "she can dance a Cajun rhythm, jump like a Willys in four wheel drive"
Let see, you quoted a Grateful Dead song and I immediately recognized it. That means we're both old farts, so we might as well be grumpy while we're at it. Now tell your great-grandkids to get off my lawn!
On my first cruise in the Navy, all the junior enlisted guys in the band were required to make coffee for all the senior guys-one of those big commercial/restaurant makers(1966). I didn't drink coffee back then and I told them that I didn't know what I was doing. They said to fill the thing about 1/2 way from the deep sink about 125' down the passageway from our quarters. The deep sink had both fresh and salt water spigots. I did about 1/4 salt. They never had me make coffee again.
Maybe what you did wasn’t so bad, just the proportion.
Why You Should Be Adding Salt to Your Coffee
I spent the better part of five years on a Destroyer. Part of that duty was a required 3 month stint as a "mess cook". I was appointed to be the CPO's mess cook because I knew how to make good "Navy" coffee. Yes, it does include a small amount of salt. I cannot reveal the other secret ingredients, nor can I confirm or deny the presence or absence of nuclear weapons aboard.
Edit: I only lasted about a month in the Chiefs mess. My sardonic wit was severely underappreciated.
Edit: I only lasted about a month in the Chiefs mess. My sardonic wit was severely underappreciated.
Yeah, my parents always added a pinch. I used more than a pinch on the ship.
If that was the better part, where did you spend the worse part of that five years?
Hey! I am about to turn 66, I forget what I'm doing here!
I recognize your avatar picture, another Grateful Dead reference, so that means you're old too. Welcome to 66. From what I can tell it doesn't feel much different than 65, except maybe a few more aches. I don't remember what 64 was like.
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