I’m not saying it’s Vince . . it may be me, but our conversations crack me up. We go to a doctor south of Joplin and we were driving down there today and had several conversations that were cracking me up. I had to send myself a message with the topics because I knew I wouldn’t remember them.
Conversation #1:
Vince keeps bringing home stuff and we are out of space. Lately, he’s been storing stuff in the cars. We start to use his car, he transfers everything to my car. I start to use my car, I take everything out and put it anywhere I can find to put it but I don’t like using cars for storage.
Today we were taking my car and he first had to move everything out of it.
Me: I don’t like using the cars for storage!
Vince: I’m not using them for STORAGE. I’m using the as a temporary holding area.
Huh? Isn’t that the same thing? It’s not like it’s going to rain and he put stuff in the car he doesn’t want to get wet; or he’s hiding Christmas presents from Addie. He’s storing stuff in there because it has no place to go. Not worth arguing about. He believes “temporarily holding” is different from storing.
Conversation #2:
There’s a smokehouse type place south of Joplin and they sell hams and bacon, sausage, stuff like that. They have a couple of billboards along the highway.
I’m sure he was asking “Where were we living when this happened?” but . I said 8 or 9 years ago. We lived in Texas at the time. And I’ll admit that my answer was a bit smart a** but when he asks me those questions, it always makes me laugh.
And, I guess that he was asking me “Did you bring anything home? What was it? Did I like it?” but I don’t remember what I bought 8 or 9 years ago . .
Anyway . . here’s the conversation.
Vince: We should go to that smokehouse sometime.
Me: We should! When Chad lived in Neosho, we stopped there a couple of times so I would know it when I see it but I can’t tell you how to get there.
Vince: Did you buy anything when you went?
Me: It’s been probably 8 or 9 years ago but I think I bought bacon and ham.
Vince: What did you do with it?
Me: We ate it! I brought it home and we ate it.
Vince: Our home?
Me: No, the other home.
Vince: Which other home?
Me: Just the other one.
Vince: We’ve only had ONE home at a time.
Me: Exactly!
Conversation #3:
In my Facebook memories, this photo showed up from 8 years ago. Addie was 2. She’s now 10.
I showed it to Vince.
Me: Look what showed up on my Facebook memories for today.
Vince: Who is that?
Me: Addie and I knitted that hat for her.
Vince: Is that today? It’s kinda hot for that.
Me: Vince! You just saw her Saturday. Did she look anything like that?
I really do think that he pays no attention to anything I say and then he thinks “Oh, heck . . I need to respond and I’m not sure what she said so I’ll just make up something and hope it fits!” Nope .. often it doesn’t fit! 🙂
Rebecca says
.They made me laugh! (Except the “temporary holding”…there are things that I could really use in the kitchen, but don’t know where I’d store, so I haven’t bought them.
Aren’t you sassy? “The other house”
judy.blog@gmail.com says
I tell myself . . if I buy “THIS”, what am I going to get rid of to make room for it and unless it’s something I super really want/need, I’ve been walking away without buying. It’s the same thing with cross stitching charts. I know I’ll never stitch all the charts I have now so I ask myself . . of the ones I REALLY want to stitch, which one of those am I willing to give up in order to buy a new chart?
On that same note, Vince went to the pallet store today and came home with cookie cutters he bought for me. They’re huge and bulky – dinosaurs, circles, squares . . like I needed those or have a place to store them.