As much as I hate that particular "excercise", if you can call it that, I can do you one better. 20 years or so ago, we went on an outing (camping for 3 days)n before opening a new hotel. They put a ladder against a tree. The challenge was to get up as high on the ladder as you dared, then fall backwards into outheld arms (NOT JOINED AT ARMS OR HANDS, just outstretched) The challenge was that the goal was a 5 star rating for the hotel. I think the only one to go up five rungs was the GM. I think I managed 3. That was scary! but nobody got dropped.
Speaking from experience, a fellow can build up quite a substantial velocity in 5 rungs. Im impressed!
Why are you hating on team shirts? They make perfectly nice hanging around the house or even sleep wear (just get them big enough).
I dont think its the shirts themselves Im hating, so much as the whole attitude behind it. Having someone with a clipboard show up at your desk and tell you to give them $15 for a $3 shirt so you can be a team player just doesnt fly with me. Its kind of like advertising that your team is easy to rip off. Next thing you know some guy in a trench coat is trying to sell you previously owned motivational posters out the back of his van in the employee parking lot.
Funny thing about first fight as a married couple. I tried to think back, but I honestly can't remember what it was. I KNOW whe had some for sure, that's not it, just can't remember the first one. But then, my memory sucks, LOL! plus its been almost 39 years.
Had it not been for the location, timing and circumstances I dont think Id have remembered it either.
Great update, GB! Glad you made it 12 years after dissing FLB's requests, LOL.
Thanks and me too!
oh yeah i've had one of those memories.
Glad that you erupted in humor. It makes it better.
I always find humor in things (even when its not necessarily appropriate) so I laugh often. Which is great, dont get me wrong. Laughing out loud can be good, but not when youre say in the middle of a funeral or something. Which Ive been known to do. Not out of disrespect
thats just how I deal with things. Maybe some sort of coping mechanism. Wow...thats like deep and stuff. Who knew writing a TR would open a window to the soul. Speaking of opening a window, Ill be right back. Jasons Deli is killing me.
Ah, the first married fight. I think my DH and I actually had it about 2 years into dating, which made our honeymoon safe. . .but everyone has to have it. I must agree- if you guys made it through this honeymoon, then you can make it through almost anything! What a crazy trip!
It was DEFINITELY a crazy trip, but you know in a way it was a good thing. (More on that later.)
I think you need to visit
www.despair.com and check out their demotivator posters. They are definitely worth a look. I used to have one of their demotivator calenders in my cube at work (facing inward, so I wouldn't offend any coworkers). My DH loves the one with the picture of the French Fries that says "POTENTIAL- Not everyone gets to be an astronaut when they grow up". They even have one about motivational posters: "MOTIVATION- If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon."
Okay, I spent WAAAAAY too much time on that site. HOLY CARP was that stuff funny. Thanks for the link. I was laughing myself into a state of snorts there.
Hmmm I think this was very close to the scene we had our throwdown on our Honeymoon, after the monsoon. I think the Coral Reef is a bad place to eat on your honeymoon. Sad too, because I love this place otherwise.
As my friends from college would say, its the Universal Constant rearing its ugly head. (Believe me, thats a back story thatd take YEARS to explain.)
I love this! We too had a moment like this when we had a tense moment and I slipped a code word in the conversation. We are dorks, we had words we picked up while on our Honeymoon, completely random words, and only we knew what they truly meant. Example....Ungala (GMR) Anyway, it's good to see that we aren't the only one's who spontaneously bust out laughing.
Sometime a good laugh will say more than words ever could.
And I can vouch - that's exactly what a former manager did! It was a bank and she'd buy a couple bags of bite-size candies. After we closed, when there was a mountain of new accounts to process before leaving, she'd stat tossing them around the room as we worked. Maybe it was the sugar high, but we were most definitely MOTIVATED!
AWESOME! Im gonna print that out and stick to my bosss monitor.
I've been wondering where Rose and Benard went, and Vincent too! and I'm with ya on the motivational posters. Thankfully our office is more the "chuck the candy over the cube wall" type of place. Usually it's chocolate kisses though instead of Now & Laters.
I really like my workplace!
See above multi-quote reply.
Great updates! I am glad the park hopper deal got worked out and the teeny spoon was found too. Sorry about the fight at Epcot though! Ugh. As soon as I read your wife asking that for the second time I thought "Get up Biscuit, take her elsewhere!" but could just see it unraveling.
Ah
the bliss of young love. I was saying the same thing when I typed it, but I knew how it would end.
And sometimes, often times, women don't even understand themselves!
Joe and I are still working on that whole communication thing, but usually I'm the blunt one and he's the "beat around the bush" one!! We are 2.5 years in, I'm hoping it gets clear soon.
Keep working
it will get easier as time goes on. Remember that Direct = Good.
Hey Biscuit!
Followed you over from Vexorg's TR, (well, actually, I was perusing (sp?) the boards for a new one to read and remembered you from there) and I must say I am completely bummed I hadn't discovered you before! You are a truly masterful writer, and I have soaked up every lovely installment today! It took all day, but was well worth it.
I look forward to future Mondays and Thursdays for new installments, and expect many a moment of hilarity! Thanks for each one so far...
Howdy and Welcome!
Glad to have you here! Thanks for your kind words. I truly do appreciate it. Trip six is almost wound down so not TOO much more hilarity on that one, but trip seven is already shaping up to be a real hum-dinger. (In a GOOD way.)
