The soft, soothing accompaniment is symbolic of a gentle marital atmosphere
It's a well-known fact, a law of nature and of life:
Things can't just disappear. I knew that if I repeated this often enough, it would be true.
Things can't just disappear. Things can't just disappear! Things can't just disappear!! Things cannot just disappear!!!
A sure-fire mantra, I was sure. As sure and certain as the fact that this weekend that old soak Paddy O'Rourke will get off the wagon,* meaning "the water wagon" of olden times when you couldn't just twist a faucett handle; i.e., a literal wagon, on top of it, riding right over the water in it—a horse-pulled tank on wheels. The driver employed rather rude language and quite crude gestures in an effort to keep us kids from climbing up there.
*i.e. stop drinking water and start drinking alcoholic beverages instead.
A
very surefire incantation, to be sure... sure enough... it surely was, as sure as that saying about little green apples... as sure and certain as the fact that a retired professor with a Ph.D. from the great University of Michigan and another from Interamerican University (Saltillo, Mexico) cannot possibly be mistaken—a factuality confirmed by perceptive students who on occasion would refer to me as "that know-it-all." (Just a little joke I just made up.)
False pride, ostentation, self-centeredness, hurt dignity... are completely foreign to my nature. Therefore, it was with total aplomb and equanimity that I graciously thanked my wife for locating it (a very tiny little nut) even though she unnecessarily pointed out that
it had been there all this time and was
R I G H T T H E R E I N P L A I N S I G H T !
Keep this constantly in mind:
Not asking your wife means
You're asking for it.
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