School starts up today. No calls to sub yet and therefore no new “subbing in the classroom” blog material to post about. So I thought I’d venture into a topic that I previously deemed a bit “too snarky” for public review.
The first thing I discovered is that “snarky” is a real word! : “adj. Slang snark·i·er, snark·i·est Irritable or short-tempered; irascible”
I first time I heard this term was from Ginny on her Singing Pigs blog.
After listening to a friend of mine complain of his mail delivery (both too late AND too early), I accused him of being a “happiness vacuum” (thanks again for the term Ginny…). He now, sometimes, calls and leaves what my wife terms “obscene sucking noises” on the answering machine.
Slightly rude and obscene. That’s how we guys are with each other. But you gotta love us anyway, right?
Disclaimer to still new brides: Snarky behavior on our part probably does NOT apply to your newly married beausband. To all new beausbands, I apologize if your wife interrogates you about your sympathies related to this post. (You can blind email me later…)
Anyway, a bunch of us old married “guys” were standing around before church just BS-ing when one of our fellow chuckle heads announced that he’d really like to have a “pause” button once and a while for his wife. She DOES talk a lot, but in order to protect the guilty no names will be mentioned here.
From that simple, single statement we “guys” brainstormed and invented the “TIVO-Wife”!!.
TIVO-Wife feature list:
Pause: Obvious.
Volume: Obvious
Channel: Can we change the topic?
Re-play: For when we finally tune back into the conversation at the phrase “Are you listening to me?”
Record: Remember when I said “I Love You”? Just play the recording again when you feel neglected.
Erase: Remember that time I (…fill in your own worst foot in mouth event here…)
Fast Forward: We don’t want the long story. Get to the point!
Thumbs-Up: To train the TIVO-Wife what conversations we like.
Thumbs-Down: To train the TIVO-Wife what conversations we don’t.
This is as far as we got before the wives came out and we hastily changed the subject…
Too snarky? Leave a comment and let me know.
2 comments:
What makes you think the wives haven't thought up TIVO-husbands of their own?
You know that "|> Slow" button on the TIVO remote? Consider when us gals might like to set that one in motion...
*Wink*
Ya can't out-snark the inventors of snark.
Not too snarky at all. I am going to pretend my husband doesn't want one for me, but I know he would love one for the other women in my family.
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