Since I hold the purse strings, and the entire purse as well, I bought myself a treat on Sunday. A GROCERY STORE SOCK CAP! Yes. Val is a fashionista. It cost $5.99, and is black, with an orange rectangular patch stitched onto the front with a black silhouette of deer antlers. Not a style I had been yearning for, but it will serve its purpose: to keep me warm(er) as I sit in the kitchen nook at night, typing on HIPPIE.
Hick walked into the kitchen last night, on his way to bed, and LAUGHED!
"Ha ha! You're wearing a sock cap!"
"Yeah. To keep me from freezing to death."
I'm not sure what I expected from Hick. He KNEW I bought the sock cap, because I asked him to set it on the kitchen table as I was putting away the groceries earlier. I did NOT expect Hick to laugh. Nor did I expect him to say,
"My poor sweet darling! Are you cold? Shall I set up a space heater under the table to take the chill off your bones? Should I turn the thermostat from 70 to 75? Perhaps put some weather stripping around those three windows that frame you? Buy you a buffalo-skin coat at the auction?"
Yeah. That wasn't gonna happen. But he didn't have to laugh.
At least your antics still tickle his funny bone.
ReplyDeleteHe laughed out loud at me this morning, over an issue relating to liquid bandaids. Put himself into a coughing fit. Serves him right!
DeleteEven though he didn't say those things, I think you should hold him to them. A buffalo skin coat sounds mighty warm. Get an ankle length one and tell him it's his Christmas gift to you :)
ReplyDeleteWeather stripping around those windows is a must and should have been done several winters ago.
Ooh! I could be nice and toasty in a buffalo skin coat. But Hick would probably get me a NUTRIA coat. A rat coat, like a rat hat Elaine bought to cover for the sable hat George lost on Seinfeld.
DeleteSupposedly these are double-paned windows, and need no weather-stripping, according to Hick. I don't feel an actual draft until the heater kicks on. I guess I prefer air warmer than 70 degrees in the winter.
HeWho laughs at me all the time. I try to limit my fits of humor where he is concerned, too much laughter might be a bad thing!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you are familiar with that condescending chuckle, have the same model husband as I...
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