Monday, November 21, 2022

Val Treats Herself To a Stretchy Chapeau

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.

6 comments:

  1. At least your antics still tickle his funny bone.

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    1. He laughed out loud at me this morning, over an issue relating to liquid bandaids. Put himself into a coughing fit. Serves him right!

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  2. Even 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 :)
    Weather stripping around those windows is a must and should have been done several winters ago.

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    1. 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.

      Supposedly 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.

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  3. 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!

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    1. I'm sure you are familiar with that condescending chuckle, have the same model husband as I...

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