Looks like it's time for Val to realize that her happiness is just not a top priority for Hick. He brought home a menu for the Senior Center only a week late this month, and he professed that it was okay, because he KNEW the Reuben Sandwiches were on the 19th. Yes. They are. As I type this, tomorrow is the 19th.
I have mentioned it every morning this week, while telling Hick what I was making him for supper. "And Friday is the Reuben. So we'll have that."
This morning, I again mentioned Reubens for tomorrow.
"Well. If I can. I don't always make it there in time for lunch on Fridays."
Same song, different day. He tried this a couple months ago, and still ended up getting the Reubens, because I reminded him how he had made it there in time for LASAGNA the previous Friday. Just to eat for himself, you know, not to bring home for me. If it's easy enough to get there to eat lasagna, I would think it's easy enough to get there to eat a Reuben Sandwich and bring me one.
I'm pretty sure Hick just doesn't want to make the effort to bring home a Reuben.
As his punishment, he will have to bring home pizza. That will keep me from cooking for three days, heh, heh, instead of one. I suggested this switch, and Hick lobbied for Chinese. No siree, Bob! Chinese will feed ME for three days, but Hick eats his all at once. Leaving me to make something else for him those other two days.
It will be a cold day in Backroads when Hick can outwit Val! The temp right now is 89.
Hick putting off your Reuben is just the worst! But pizza is nice. Chinese and pizza would be very nice but too much food. I too could stretch Chinese for three days but can be like Hick and eat it all at once too.
ReplyDeleteHick upped his obstinance by calling me later in the day, purportedly to say he was back in phone range after spending six hours working on a paid job for our ex backcreek neighbors. He declared hotly that he WAS NOT going to buy enough Chinese food for him to eat three days! He would have bologna and cheese sandwiches for two days. Fine with me.
DeleteHick must have realized his tactical mistake, because by evening, he was liking the idea of pizza, and saying Thank You when I made him a Wild Turkey and Shasta Zero Sugar Cola, and rinsing his silverware, and throwing away his own trash.
I'm still kind of bitter about my Reuben...
Why don't you go with him to the Reuben feed?
ReplyDeleteBecause I want it for SUPPER! Not at 11:00 a.m. I don't eat lunch. And going "with" Hick would mean meeting him there, where he would ignore me with all of his elderlies clamoring for attention, while he was basking in the adoration of the cooks.
DeleteStep right up, nose to nose (or maybe not quite that close) and demand your rightful Reuben. After all the things you do for him, laying out bowls and plates and cutlery, buying his preferred soda etc, he can just bite the bullet and get your Reuben!
ReplyDeleteIt's not like I ask for much. Just an oil change for T-Hoe every five years or so! And a Reuben once a month. And of course for him to obey my every command. I'm really disappointed that my happiness means so little to Hick.
DeleteYou do ask for little! Is he just trying to show you he cannot be bossed around? Unless it is to go to the apartments? Shame on him. Have you shamed him?
ReplyDeleteI guess Hick just wants to hang out at his SUS2.5 until time to hang out for his Friday afternoon bull-shooting session with his cronies. Even though he seems to make it to the Senior Center lunch a couple times a month on Fridays, he tries to say he doesn't go there on Fridays. There is no glory or reward for doing something nice for ME! So it's not a priority for Hick.
DeleteYes, I shamed him by actually telling him that I don't ask for much of anything from him. Just a Reuben. He's free to come and go as he pleases, has HIS own money, and you'd think an hour once a month to bring me a Reuben would not be such a hardship. The result was me ordering Casey's pizza, and Hick picking it up on the way home. Casey's pizza is good, but it's no Reuben!