'More like "The New Bullshit," Glen. Getting that many facets of life going in the right direction at once would be like herding cats, no matter HOW MUCH money you had!
Yep. She can decide she's not "happy", utter the "I want a divorce" word spell and you're blind-sided. It's all gone, forever. Under colour of law. She's publicly celebrated for it. Yes, yes, very good. Now we know where we stand. Loving husband will receive no quarter or even a semblance of mercy. Now either will she. Unless you're in your 20's, and she is too, don't get married. If you're young, you can build a life & family with her, together. If her egg carton is already empty, you're just a resource she will legally strip-mine and discard when a richer man glances her way. She's done it to many, better men before you. Don't believe me? Ask her about her relationship with her dad - then shut-up and listen.
I had a church friend call me today in an absolute fury. His adopted daughter lives in his basement with her own daughter and they are always at loggerheads. I had nothing to say to him because my daughter and I crashed and burned ages ago. In today’s society young men would be wise to avoid being husbands, and they’d have to be nuts to want to be fathers.
It changes because of things or conditions that no one realizes, or that only one person realizes. As a simile, imagine you have a pickup truck in good working order. You load the truck with produce, then highball it to Jacksonville, FL. Unbeknownst to you, your brother-in-law has been using your truck to haul refurbished house trailers during the week (while you're at work) and he fails to keep the oil topped off like you've told him to do a hundred times or so. So the engine, having suffered abuse, throws a rod just as you're crossing a set of railroad tracks in the middle of nowhere and locks up tight.
Then you hear it.
A train, and the engineer is horn happy. Fortunately, you and the dog manage to escape before the freight train slams into your truck and obliterates it along with the produce. Several hundred dollars of melons are now so much mush, the truck is gone, and the dog is looking at you like, 'What now?'.
You didn't see any of this coming, but here it is. That truck was all paid off and was reliable. You spent all season tending the melon patch, and it was producing. Then you worked half the night loading up the harvest into the truck, figuring to make a few extra bucks. Now it's all gone.
By the time the old ball and chain comes to pick you up at Fred's Fuel Stop, it's three in the morning. During the ride home you find out that Jeff the Jerk-Off has been using your truck, but he told his sister (your wife) that he talked to you and you said it was okay, so long as he got it home in time. Which he did, because if he hadn't you would have found out he's driving your truck, and would have turned him in for stealing your truck.
See how that all shakes out?
Now, had you kept track of the truck's odometer, or the brother in law, who never had two dimes to rub together and is suddenly flush, or just asked the Old Lady why her brother's picture is no longer hanging on the Post Office wall, well - none of this would have happened.
Don't get complacent. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
You guys are pegging the cynicism meter. Don't get married? Don't have kids?Meanwhile our enemies - living among us multiply relentlessly and seek to overwhelm us. Enjoy being surrender monkeys.
'More like "The New Bullshit," Glen. Getting that many facets of life going in the right direction at once would be like herding cats, no matter HOW MUCH money you had!
ReplyDeleteI think that state of affairs is getting worse, too… right now I’m doing four or five. Lot a people dont have even that…
DeleteYep. She can decide she's not "happy", utter the "I want a divorce" word spell and you're blind-sided. It's all gone, forever. Under colour of law. She's publicly celebrated for it. Yes, yes, very good. Now we know where we stand. Loving husband will receive no quarter or even a semblance of mercy. Now either will she. Unless you're in your 20's, and she is too, don't get married. If you're young, you can build a life & family with her, together. If her egg carton is already empty, you're just a resource she will legally strip-mine and discard when a richer man glances her way. She's done it to many, better men before you. Don't believe me? Ask her about her relationship with her dad - then shut-up and listen.
ReplyDeleteI had a church friend call me today in an absolute fury. His adopted daughter lives in his basement with her own daughter and they are always at loggerheads. I had nothing to say to him because my daughter and I crashed and burned ages ago. In today’s society young men would be wise to avoid being husbands, and they’d have to be nuts to want to be fathers.
DeleteExcept for the healthy bodies and happy children, we're doing great!
ReplyDeleteIt changes because of things or conditions that no one realizes, or that only one person realizes. As a simile, imagine you have a pickup truck in good working order. You load the truck with produce, then highball it to Jacksonville, FL. Unbeknownst to you, your brother-in-law has been using your truck to haul refurbished house trailers during the week (while you're at work) and he fails to keep the oil topped off like you've told him to do a hundred times or so. So the engine, having suffered abuse, throws a rod just as you're crossing a set of railroad tracks in the middle of nowhere and locks up tight.
ReplyDeleteThen you hear it.
A train, and the engineer is horn happy. Fortunately, you and the dog manage to escape before the freight train slams into your truck and obliterates it along with the produce. Several hundred dollars of melons are now so much mush, the truck is gone, and the dog is looking at you like, 'What now?'.
You didn't see any of this coming, but here it is. That truck was all paid off and was reliable. You spent all season tending the melon patch, and it was producing. Then you worked half the night loading up the harvest into the truck, figuring to make a few extra bucks. Now it's all gone.
By the time the old ball and chain comes to pick you up at Fred's Fuel Stop, it's three in the morning. During the ride home you find out that Jeff the Jerk-Off has been using your truck, but he told his sister (your wife) that he talked to you and you said it was okay, so long as he got it home in time. Which he did, because if he hadn't you would have found out he's driving your truck, and would have turned him in for stealing your truck.
See how that all shakes out?
Now, had you kept track of the truck's odometer, or the brother in law, who never had two dimes to rub together and is suddenly flush, or just asked the Old Lady why her brother's picture is no longer hanging on the Post Office wall, well - none of this would have happened.
Don't get complacent. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
Happy families are a real tough one these days, eh?
DeleteThis sounds oddly specific...lose a truck?
DeleteYou guys are pegging the cynicism meter. Don't get married? Don't have kids?Meanwhile our enemies - living among us multiply relentlessly and seek to overwhelm us. Enjoy being surrender monkeys.
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