# The dumbest marital argument ever. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 8, 2016, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-marital-argument-ever/765317 "2016-09-08T02:36:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-marital-argument-ever/765317/81 "2016-09-10T00:47:40Z")
I bought my first Harley as a basket case when I was about 10 ---------- get thee to a motorcycle shop now! You’re way behind where I think you should be. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-marital-argument-ever/765317/82 "2016-09-10T00:51:22Z")
I do look forward to the “Why did I buy these fucking donkeys?” thread in a couple of years. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-marital-argument-ever/765317/83 "2016-09-12T21:08:59Z")
I voted donkeys because the other choices are so predictable. But in a perfect world, capybaras. ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-marital-argument-ever/765317/84 "2016-09-13T00:35:18Z")
Miniature donkey: Burrito. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-marital-argument-ever/765317/85 "2016-09-13T10:27:14Z")
[Harley](http://www.harley-davidson.com/en_us/Motorcycles/trike.html) has the solution for the fear of spinal injuries. Jokes about second childhood provided by purchaser who would never have been able to pay for one at a younger age. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-marital-argument-ever/765317/86 "2016-09-13T18:55:21Z")
Get a little red sports car. Much better choice than a motorbike, and might help you pick up some of the shallow gold diggers which might spice up your sex life. ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-marital-argument-ever/765317/87 "2016-09-13T20:32:31Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > When I was a kid I once convinced the “annoying kids from down the street who always popped by randomly” that **our cat was a miniature black panther**. Was your black panther able to stand and raise his little kitty-fist in defiance while wearing a beret? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-marital-argument-ever/765317/88 "2016-09-15T23:57:29Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > I voted donkeys. Not sure why donkeys, but, hey, whatever makes you happy. 🙂 I just HAD to vote donkeys. (Man, it’s asses all the way down!) On a serious note, my mid-life crisis hit early, and I really worked at finding something that wouldn’t cost me a bundle, or my marriage. Turned out to be an assortment of fairly tame things I’d never gotten around to doing\*. Better to have your wife rolling her eyes than filing papers. \*hop a freight, build a treehouse, play tag with my (grown) friends on a playground, rent a convertible and drive up the coast… ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-marital-argument-ever/765317/89 "2016-09-16T01:55:57Z")
> [@digs](#): > > On a serious note, my mid-life crisis hit early, and I really worked at finding something that wouldn’t cost me a bundle, or my marriage. Only when that final conjunction is “and” that it really starts to hurt, although to be fair if the later is true, the former is often as well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-marital-argument-ever/765317.md?page=4)