[ham] [Rhodes22-list] Gifts.

[Steve Alm]

I really blew it when I got my wife a canister vacuum.  Being somewhat
mechanically challenged, she gets all tangled up with the unit, hose, cord
and so on, so guess who wound up being the vacuumer?  Damn!
Slim

On 4/4/03 1:13 PM, "Michael Meltzer" <mjm@michaelmeltzer.com> wrote:

> Now that's the sprite, I wish she looked at it that way, BTW it was a canister
> model.
> 
> MJM
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Tonjes" <johntonjes@earthlink.net>
> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 9:26 AM
> Subject: [ham] [Rhodes22-list] Gifts.
> 
> 
>> Michael,
>> I'm with you on this one. An appliance is a great way to tell your wife
>> that you love her very much and are trying to make her life easier. Long
>> after the perfume has been used up and the scarf has been discarded, the
>> vacuum cleaner will still be making her life much easier. I hope you got
>> her a self propelled model.
>> 
>> Rummy
>> 
>> 
>>> [Original Message]
>>> From: Thena Carville <thenacarville@worldnet.att.net>
>>> To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
>>> Date: 4/4/2003 9:13:23 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [ham] Re: [Rhodes22-list] what happened to the french?
>>> 
>>> Michael,
>>> I am amazed you are still "intact" after this blunder...under no
>>> circumstances is a  household appliance a "gift"...even the most expensive
>>> appliance with all the doo-dahs in the world is never a "gift"...I have
>>> never understood what it is about the y chromosome that seems to cause
>> this
>>> mistake to happen over and over again (to different males, and then only
>>> once if they are smart)...if you do get the vacuum (and the French maid
>>> outfit) please keep in mind that if they count as presents, they are YOUR
>>> presents...a present for a woman (especially one that has had to go
>> through
>>> the trauma of realizing you weren't smart enough to figure out that a
>> vacuum
>>> was NOT a "gift" suitable for the woman who bore your children and keeps
>> the
>>> kitchen knives sharp) should be something to beautiful, something for her
>>> personal use only...something "intimate" like a perfume she would not buy
>>> for herself because it is "too expensive"...or a piece of jewelry because
>>> the stones are her favorite color...or a scarf because it matches her
>>> eyes..or a bottle of wine that you both stop whatever else you are doing
>> and
>>> enjoy together (as uninterrupted as possible)....a woman doesn't want her
>>> husband to remember what she looks like vacuuming (even with the finest
>>> vacuum in the world), she wants to be remembered as a goddess of love and
>>> understanding...wearing something sexy...especially when she hasn't had
>> the
>>> time to "wear something sexy" for a while...sigh...I think I am going to
>> go
>>> kick my vacuum cleaner...
>>> Thena
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Michael Meltzer" <mjm@michaelmeltzer.com>
>>> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
>>> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 12:27 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [ham] Re: [Rhodes22-list] what happened to the french?
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> You know something buddy, you should watch the advice you give, my wife
>> is
>>> German and been upset too. So I read the list mail.
>>>> Sitting down and think, I talk to her about getting her a new vacuum,
>>> figure it was both a gift and a vacuum, Sound great to me,
>>>> might even cover motherday, after talking to her about it, well that is
>> a
>>> little off, I said three sentence then she talk for 15
>>>> mintues without stop and it ended "do not even think of coming to bed",
>> so
>>> it looks like I am spend my night with the computer.
>>>> 
>>>> And you know, she was somewhat ok with this, it seems nothing makes a
>>> german happier than picking on the french :-)
>>>> 
>>>> MJM
>>> 
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