Blog Number 332

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

From time to time I have the need to pick on the wife, so here it goes.  I blogged a while back (like maybe a year ago) about a Mr Rogers like sweater that I bought on clearance at Kohls.  We have had a few days lately that were in the 40s overnight.  This causes me to want to wear a jacket (or maybe a sweater) on my way to work.  However, since we also now have a dog that needs to be taken outside in the morning, the wife also wants to wear a jacket (or MY sweater) in the morning.  We sat over coffee on morning this week and discussed this.

My side of the discussion reasoned that since it was my sweater and since I needed a sweater (or something sweater like) it followed that I should be allowed to wear my sweater.  Her side of the discussion mainly relied on the argument that she liked the sweater.  I then offered to sell her the sweater.  I could then take the money and put it towards another sweater (albeit probably not as nice of a sweater since I got it on sale).  She did not like this idea.  I then offered to give her the sweater and I would then simply purchase another sweater out of my clothing budget.  Now, you would think (if you were a reasonable person) that this would be the end of the discussion.  Well, you are wrong for my wife then told me that if the sweater were no longer mine, then she would no longer wish to wear it.  Evidently, part (or most) of the desire to wear the sweater did not lie in its warming properties but in the fact that it was not her sweater but rather belonged to me.  Somehow (through her logic) if I bought another sweater for my use, she would no longer wish to have this one.  Part of the lure of this sweater was the fact that while she was wearing it, I could not wear it (or any other sweater).  She said all this with a straight face and with an expression that would lead you to believe that she was dead serious.

I might point out that during this conversation, she was wearing the sweater.  When two people have a disagreement like this and one person uses logic that the other person cannot comprehend then you come to the conclusion that I came to in that I had no rebuttal and was forced to concede her point (whatever it was) and continue to have her wear the sweater.

Some of you have asked for more pics of Nina so here you go...

  

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon