# I welcome death...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-welcome-death/588469>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 10, 2011, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-welcome-death/588469 "2011-07-10T01:06:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-welcome-death/588469/21 "2011-07-11T19:31:26Z")

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So what you’re saying, OP, is that your wife is smarter than you.

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**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-welcome-death/588469/22 "2011-07-11T19:52:50Z")

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> [@Bob Ducca](#):
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> So what you’re saying, OP, is that your wife is smarter than you.

That’s a given.🙂

And no, she doesn’t read the Dope

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**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-welcome-death/588469/23 "2011-07-11T22:11:59Z")

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> [@czarofspam](#):
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> That is just wrong.
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> My MIL is a fundamentalist Christian and I’m a Catholic 😛
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> We don’t get along, though we both make a half-assed effort at civility.

Heh, reminds me … my wife’s parents are hardcore folk-type Ukranian Catholics. I’m an atheist Jew.

The first time I was over at my (then future wife’s) parent’s place, I was left waiting in the living room for her to get ready to go out - an endless wait.

I can’t sit anywhere for long without reading, so I checked out the pamplets on the living room table, left there for guests to peruse. The only one in English was a book of meditations to say the rosary to (I dunno what the term for this is). It was like a calender, with a different meditation for each day of the year.

Turns out each day you are supposed to meditate on a different horrible torture that was inflicted on Jesus, for a total of 40 minutes. There was a space to tick off each day, and my (future) wife’s mom had duly ticked off each day.

Just out of idle curiousity, I turned to the particular day I was there. The meditation for that day was for the believer to meditate on “the Jews” ramming turds into Jesus’ mouth. It was ticked off. Then, I had to go meet them for the first time … knowing what her meditation for the day was, and knowing they knew I was Jewish!

I thought for sure I was in the dragon’s den. 😃 Actually, they are quite nice folks, aside from attempting to convert me, though very religiously gullible (my wife caught them giving money to some woman who claimed to have stigmata).

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