I "think" I pissed her off…

Went to dinner last night at an old shipmate’s house.  His wife is, to put it mildly, HIGH maintenance (and doesn’t like me anyway, since I was/am a BAD influence on hubby). She’s his second wife, and bless his heart, he’s put up with her for 20+ years…


What did I do???


We got to talking about disaster preparedness… Sigh…


They have a VERY nice boat, and ‘one’ plan was to get to the boat.



It’s a 54′ Hunter, nicely updated, and will hold all four of them (him, her, two late teens kids).


Soooo…  I was asking some ‘basic’ questions.  How much food is stored aboard?


NONE was her answer, it might spoil.  No canned food? No vienna sausages?  MRE’s? ANYTHING???  Nope not allowed… Spoilage!


Bottled water?  Nope, they ‘have’ water on the boat.  When I mentioned it was only about 130 gallons, well, THAT was plenty…


Is the boat fully gased up?  It only holds about 80 gal of fuel;  Don’t know, the kids had it out last weekend…


Um… Spare clothes?  Of course NOT, the clothes get moldy smelling on board…


So how are you going to coordinate getting everybody there, WITH everything they need?  Cell phones of course (looking at me like I’m an idiot); when I mentioned cells ‘usually’ don’t work in an emergency, she got up and stomped out…  


By the way, hubby NEVER got a word in edgewise in the above discussion!  As I was leaving, he told me he’ll take me out for a good dinner next time I’m in town (and without her there)…  And he’s going to stock the boat himself, in spite of her.  He and a couple of friends did sail it from California to here, so he does know how to sail on the big pond!


On the way back to the hotel, I came up behind a big (tractor/trailer style) dump truck. On the back was a BIG sign saying Drive Safely.  Carefully (more or less) lettered underneath was the following:


Hey bro dis mean YOU!  De kine breaks on dis ting ain’t dat good.


So I at least had a laugh out of last night…

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I "think" I pissed her off… — 19 Comments

  1. Dis means you! Ha ha, great sign.

    i like your common-sense questions about the boat. You have got to think about these things or bad things happen.

  2. I suspect your bud is still paying for your visit! 🙂 Don’t you just love folks with their head in the sand? Honestly, I pray we never fall off any of the many cliffs that seem to surround us of late. If we do, it ain’t going to be pretty . . . nope, not pretty at all!

    Beautiful boat though.

  3. The highest award I ever received was being called a bad infuence on a USMC SGTMAJ with 33 years in service. It was bestowed on me by his wife too!

    Gerry

  4. Love the sign … HATE dinners like that … continue to be a ‘bad influence’ sounds like he needs it!

  5. Hubby married a bitch. Not your fault.

    I’m sure that she voted for Obama last time around.

  6. I am happy he owns a nice 54 footer. My plan is to go down to the Delaware River and procure a like sized vessel to take my family out to sea if needed. My truck will have all the stores I need. Fuel will always be an issue. Solar battery charging will be added!!

    Where does he dock that beauty??? LOL

  7. I’ve been dismayed over the years at some of what passes for “women” that my old AF and LE pals have married.

    I’ve got several pilot friends whose wives bemoan every second their husbands spend at the hangar with their airplanes. Yet, these same “women” love to BRAG about how “MY husband is a pilot and we go whenever, wherever we want!”

    *Shaking my head*

    God Bless my wife. She’s never bemoaned a single minute I’ve spent at the hangar with our planes, on the boat, in my workshop reloading and taking care of the guns.

    Likewise, I’ve never blinked for a second at HER “Calgon” time activities.

    She has the same use for Obama and idiot liberals (redundant, sorry) as I do, which is zero.

    I simply don’t know how men stay married to wives like that anymore than I Understand how wives stay married to absolute WIMPS of husbands (and the men reading this know exactly what I mean by “wimp husbands”).

    So Old NFO, look at it this way: Your old shipmate is your friend–his wife is collateral damage.

    –AOA

  8. N1- True, and it IS a real issue…

    PE- Ain’t it though… Gotta ‘love’ the mentality!

    eia- HE has brains, and knows what to do, her… ??? He’ll survive!

    Gerry- I’m in good company then! 🙂

    Julie- Thanks

    LL- Yep…

    Danny- Ali Wai 🙂

    Agirl- Of course I am! 😀

    AOA- Concur, and I STILL don’t understand it… He’s a sharp guy, but that relationship is ‘strange’…

    Les- Probably… Although he works about 10 minutes away and I ‘know’ he has ‘protection’ readily available…

  9. I’m with Danny and Les. The basics of the plan seem like a bad idea. Even if it doesn’t get stolen before they get to it, are boats good things to be on during hurricanes?

  10. Jim & Group – The woman does exist who is perfect in every way. How do I know this? I found her and married her on 30 June 1962, 50-Years ago. FWIW: Let me share some longevity secrets to our successful 50 golden, blissful years of Holy Matrimony.

    Take a woman, perfect in every way, and join her to a less than perfect man “…to be lawfully wedded, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part. ― Amen.”…Light on the vermouth, stir gently and do not shake, heavy on the olives, and…Voilà!…a marital martini sure to serve up long-term matrimonial success.

    Some important lessons we learned over our two score plus ten years…“Better” is preferable to “Worse.”…”Richer” is more enjoyable than “Poorer.”…”Health” is superior to “Sickness.”…No one leaves the planet alive…Never confuse “Youth” with “Beauty.” Last, but not least, QUOTE MY WIFE, DOLORES: “We were poor when you could afford to be poor” UNQUOTE.

    As I like to remind Her Royal Nibs, “QUOTE BILLY JOEL: ‘…You may be right, I may be crazy, but it just may be a lunatic you were looking for…’ UNQUOTE.”

  11. And of course there WILL be bandits/pirates.
    I fear a 24-hour watch will be necessary, and they had damned well better be prepared to defend against boarders.

  12. GB- Point! His ‘plan’ is get underway and get to deep water. He’s got an autopilot/autosail configuration and figures if he’s 25-30 miles out he’ll be out of range of the locals…

  13. Everyone needs a “bad influence” who makes them think about things they’d rather pretend don’t exist.