By the numbers
1 – Number of people who suggested we flip a coin to decided who should pay for the new mattress; it may actually come to this but I’m not worried because I’m fairly lucky in the coin flipping department.
3 – Number of people who said we were retarded.
3 – Number of people who broke the rules and said we should both pay for the new mattress. And for the record, it was I who suggested the compromise and The Thing who rejected going half-zies.
5 – Number of people who said the cost of the new mattress was The Thing’s responsibility. You may or may not be happy to know that this is the same option Girlfriend picked. So….The Thing paying gets 6 votes total.
5 – Number of people who suggested The Thing quit being a big baby and deal with sleeping on the mattress another 10 times or so. Actually, this was my opinion when Thing originally suggested that a new mattress was needed. However, once he explained it was causing him actual physical pain…well, you know I can’t let that happen.
8 –The number of people who, despite my careful avoidance of swaying the votes, agreed with me. Yep, you said I should pay for the new mattress, and you’re right. It’s my mattress and when I move, my son will inherit it. However, Thing won’t hear of it. He’s now threatening to just order one himself and have it delivered while I’m distracted writing blogs.
Yep, we were 'fighting' the fact that we each thought we should be paying for the mattress ourselves.
200 - Percentile increase of people who now think we are retarded and need to learn how to fight.
And a big Thank you! to everyone who participated in the Official Day of Delurksion. I was honored to have more people show themselves in one 24-hr period this year then I had in the entire week of delurking last year. I'll be doing a proper thank you post in the near future. I'd do it now, but my cup of tea is empty.
posted by ƒåυνέ @ 10:04 AM
5 Comments:
Oy, that is retarded. Tell him that if you buy the matress then he can buy the sheets.
Now fight 'right' and have make-up sex, for pete's sake. ;)
LMFAO! The boy reaps the benefits in the long haul. I'm with lemming... tell Thing to buy some really high quality sheets to go with the new mattress.
Let him buy it. He is obviously a gentleman and would feel badly if you bought a mattress because his back hurts. You can always use a mattress down the road...a guest room, your son, your daughter, whatever...just let him buy it if he feels that strongly. You buy the sheets...
I think we knew what your side was; you're fiercely independant.
Remember, though, you're going into a partnership with someone who isn't the paperweight. Let a little of the load off your shoulders; it's nice to not carry the weight all the time.
I was late for "delurking day," but I thought I'd delurk myself for this post and add a small comment: we knew which side was yours, not only because we know your independent spirit, but also by how you phrased the argument.
When you said "The Thing will only be using this mattress, at most, twice a month for the next 4 1/2 months," the use of the words "only" and "at most" were downplaying the Thing's use of the mattress, and thus downplaying his financial responsibility.
Blame the courses I took in rhetoric and journalism, but I knew who's side was whose all along! ;)
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