Well the wife’s away on her annual family visit a few borders south of here and truth be known…this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Now I’ll tell ya… I am and have always been a free man, married or otherwise. Those marital constraints in place are there by choice and so there is little need to take advantage of the fact my freedom has suddenly become unsupervised. My friends will often ask …..
“Buy a lot more beer while the wife’s away Rich?” and I quickly answer….
“No …no I don’t…..I buy the same amount”
And that is in fact truth even if I tend to withhold the small detail that there is now no one I need to “share” that same amount of beer with. This may well be the reason for the query I fielded this morning from the woman who cuts my hair…..
“Did you get drunk last night Rich?” and for the life of me… I couldn’t remember.
Well the fresh haircut above the headache and I drove home to kill an hour or two before going to work and I gave the garage a quick sweep before going in to build a sandwich and swallow mega doses of Advil. While standing there munching I looked out the front window to notice the Siberian Husky that lives across the street out on my front lawn frantically attacking something. So long as he wasn’t frapping I really didn’t give a shit but ten minutes later when he was still there I became curious and so went outside to investigate. The son of a bitch instantly bolted across the street abandoning the shredded victim of his attentions …… my sneaker.
I had left my sneakers at the door before entering the house just as I would have had the wife been here to enforce her rules. However, in the indulgence of my unsupervised freedom I had ignored the “close the garage door to keep critters out rule” and thus allowed Striker the Husky access to his lunch of New Balance sneaker. It’s not all bad however for now with my unsupervised freedom in hand I shall be permitted the joy of completely forgetting about the ruined shoe. Those who have ever been nagged two straight days in the Spanish language will know …what a true luxury that might be.
Let freedom ring.
