I was wondering why. Are too many Kentuckians having sex with race horses? But then I looked at the stats, and despite the scary increase, Kentucky is actually at #33 in overall STD rate. Other states are much worse. So my conclusion is summed up in the title of one of George Carlin’s shows, “You Are All Diseased”.
My husband’s been doing this to the extreme today. I finally said (to myself), fuck it. Let him be the king, I don’t want to fight. 
I’m oddly happy to say yes. Hubster is back to his stubborn, pushy, controlling over minutia self. So yep, he tells me how to do it and I tell him how I’m really going to do it. Situation normal.
smart men ask themselves the Q: “is that really the hill I want to die on???”
smart married men ask themselves the Q: “is that really the hill I want to die on???” multiple times a day.
I’ve been happily married 10 years so far and this is why.
Husband was just watching something on TV and commented, “Happy wife, happy life!” Now I need a new irony meter.
In our trusty 2012 Subaru Outback has been through a lot. Other than being awesome when we lived in the mountains and it’s great to drive arround the cit we live in now, it had two kids learn to drive in it, kept 4 kids safe when one was rear ended driving to prom with his friends and dates (it needed a fair bit of bodywork repairs) but alas is starting to turn up problems. New hubs and bearings last year, 4 months ago it need some engine sensors and a new battery, it seems to have a light bulb go out here and there very regularly , one month ago the radiator gave up and dropped coolant everywhere, and this morning , we saw it had decided to dump all of its engine oil out through the valve cover gaskets. To add to that fun it had rained heavily last night so we had all the oil mixed into some big puddles in our driveway. 50 lbs of kitty litter later ( well it’s about 150lb now with all the water and oil soaked in) that’s solved and the repair shop is not far so they sent a couple of guys over who took it away with needing to call a tow truck, which was nice of them.
Anyway I feel it is getting close to the end. Kind of torn because we have put a fair bit into it, and I don’t like the idea of buying another car if this can be repaired and it’s like ‘ surely that’s all the big stuff what else can go wrong now? , but that feels like tempting the gods who will drop the transmission all over I10 at rush hour .
In Florida I took advantage for the last several years of AAA’s Gift Card program-buy a gift card (for yourself or whoever), get a % bonus in “AAA Dollars” to apply to your next membership, or some other perks or something (I always took the membership discount).
That was Florida. I already knew, from walking into a AAA office in Ohio a few years ago, that Ohio franchisees don’t do that program, after I asked the lady for some gift cards, and she had zero idea what I was talking about.
So it’s coming up on membership renewal time. I got a new card in the mail-hmm, red, white, and blue, not the gold color that my Premium card from FL had…
So I went into a local office to reup my membership, only to about die of a coronary when they gave me the amount: #134.00, about 25 bucks more expensive than my base FL membership was-and the AAA Dollar discount nowhere the fuck in sight. Again, the clerk claimed total ignorance of such, and even when she called some AAA hotline the woman there also said she had never heard of it, and that none of my AAA Dollars could be found and applied to new OH membership.
I decided to reup anyway, but I sure was pissed. I thought the WHOLE POINT of being an Official Franchisee was to provide service which is more or less identical to that of fellow franchisees across the entire country (and yeah world). So why hasn’t corporate AAA insisted that ALL their franchisees participate in this program? It would be like a McDonald’s that doesn’t sell Big Macs.
AAA sounds to me like something that was a great idea in 1955, was all but useless by 1980 when I was a young adult on my own, and is way past its sell-by date today.
It also sounds like awhile ago they decided that they are a public utility which deserves to exist forever simply because it did in yesteryear and does today. Value for money? Quality product or service? No need; we’re like Ernestine’s Ma Bell: omnipotent.
I’m a woman who also asks myself this question. I think it’s a sign of a good marriage.
Yes, there are probably more stubborn men than stubborn women in the world. Women are socialized to be accommodating.
I can be stubborn, but my husband is way stubborner. In 2008, we got into one of those petty pointless arguments about a music album, and he was clearly, unequivocally wrong, but he kept digging in his heels.
Ten years later, he says to me out of the blue, “You know I’ve been thinking about that argument, and you were right.”
So it’s not that he never admits he’s wrong, he just needs a few years to think it over.
Now I want to know what the album was.
Green Day’s “American Idiot.” We both love it. We argued about what it was about. I said it was a full-throated critique of the Iraq War, he said it could be about “any war,” and to this day neither of us know what he was thinking. And it definitely goes on record as one of the stupidest fights we’ve ever had.
One of. Don’t ask about the octopus cookie jar.
I agree, cel., google, whatsapp and Waze make them somewhat dated/obsolete and the value delivered compared to how-much-difference-did-they-make-before-those … is nowadays just a fraction of yesteryear’s.
having everything-everywhere-anytime (in your cel.) was no friend to them.
Just the thought of the missed opportunities of AAA in everything-digital is mind-numbing… Common sense suggests AAA should have developed waze - and I am sure they could have monetarized it a priori more/better than others by x-linking it with membership tiers.
but i guess the adage “if you are a hammer, all your problems start looking like nails”, applies to them
I dropped AAA when I discovered I could get better towing/roadside assistance coverage on my regular car insurance policy for under $5/month. The main difference is that it’s only good on the insured vehicle, whereas with AAA it’s good on any vehicle I happen to be in.
I know this is the wrong forum, but are there any cookie presses that don’t fucking suck? 
The Wilton model that now resides in my trash can was supposedly a Bed Bath and Beyond exclusive… No wonder they went out of business selling shit like that.
I did learn that cookie press dough works great in a piping bag, and all the shapes I made were recognizable, so that part was good.
I dunno, man. Much more of this, and you’re gonna have a Subaru of Theseus on your hands. Not sure if that would necessarily be a bad thing, but the process of getting there strikes me as excruciating.
Well, yeah, it’s superfluous if you have another source for the service it provides; but that’s true of most things. I don’t see why that makes it out-of-date.
Nor do I, unless he’s referring only to their roadmaps and other things which might be better replaced with navigation apps.
It’s time to say goodbye to my good girl. I am in pieces.
I have to wait til Monday to make an appointment. It will probably be a few days after that.
It will be an in-home euthanasia. Expensive, but her best option. She has a lot of people who love her and I’ll try to give them the chance to say goodbye… but at the end, it should just be her and me.
I don’t know what I’m going to tell the kid. I didn’t want to do this right before Christmas, but it’s time.
I’m so sorry.