Have you ever wondered how your life would have been if you had married a different man?
This year I have been married for 17 years .We have been together for 20 years ( half of my life !!) and were engaged after only 6 months of " going out".
Despite a near 7 year age gap ( him being older than me) we share very similar likes and dislikes, a very odd sense of humour and the ability to still have a really good laugh about completely stupid things.
We rarely argue ( which sometimes infuriates me!), I have never heard him swear ( he has heard me countless times), he doesn't smoke or drink ( more drink for me !)and I can honestly say that he is my best friend and a great father to our 2 children.
He is quite a distinctive character 6 ft 4, with short auburny/ ginger hair ( what is left of it)and bears a remarkable resemblance to "Tin Tin". He has a very loud laugh and is a terrible giggler. He has been banned from meetings at work and asked to leave several times to compose himself ( because once he starts laughing - and often does at the most inappropriate times he starts everyone else off).
He always surprises me and is highly entertaining "verging on the insane". Life is never dull in our household as he also tends to attract disaster!
In our life time together, and this is the tip of the ice berg ( mainly on holidays) he has;
1. Wrestled a knifeman to the ground in a restaurant in Fort Lauderdale,
2. Got us lost in Miami,
3. Marooned in a Lion enclosure in outback Kenya,
4. Locked in an underground car park in Switzerland in that we had to climb a runged inspection chamber shaft in the pitch darkness out of a man hole cover in the middle of the street into a crowded outdoor cafe
5.Having attracted my attention and that of everyone else in a crowded swimming pool in France whilst standing on a diving board to watch him dive - suddenly realised that his speedo swimming trunks were not holding in what they should be holding in and ended up plopping into the water instead.
6.Left me for dead standing behind "the jet car" at Santa pod race track when the engine fired up and gassed the whole audience covering us in black soot and ash.
7.When I needed a doctor in Greece ( having acquired horrific food poisoning)
) in his best greek accent dragged the local hair dresser to see me.
8.Got talked into buying tickets for a show in Thailand by one of the reps only to find out we were to be taken to a local transvestite show and that he had been set up as the star attraction on stage.After the show was hounded by a group of Vietnamese tourists all who wanted to shake his hand and have their photo taken with him !
9.Lost a fortune betting on Crab and toad races in the Dominican republic.
10.Nearly killed me when we went ice skating by being too fast and out of control, knocking me down and cracking my head !
( The good news is that we are going on holiday with our friends this year - Sorry Lyzzy!!)
I have threatened to "trade" him in several times and sell him on Ebay with no joy!
The other night this subject did cross my mind again.
I was just about to drop off to sleep , all snuggled up and warm under the duvet, having had a really busy day.I had turned the light off in the bedroom.
The next thing I remember is the light being suddenly switched on and my beloved saying , " Hey look at this quick ".
Wondering what the hell was going on , I sat up bolt upright in the bed with my eyes screwed up peering at him.
The next minute I saw a pale pair of buttocks and long limbed legs and feet moving robotically backwards across from one side of the room to the other.
"What are you doing?" I shouted in a rather sharp tone
"Moon walking!" was the reply.
"What?!" I yelled.
"I can moon walk, I've just learnt to do it from watching You tube !"
"For God's sake - you're nearly 47 years old, get to bed!"
The naked bottomed Moon walker quietly sculked away to the bathroom.
"Turn the light off again please" I demanded.
I rolled back over, huffed and puffed a bit trying to get comfortable again, and then the oddness of the event that had just happened hit me.
He appeared sheepishly back in the room and we spent the next 20 minutes in hysterics.
What posessed him to do that I will never know - Men !!
Am I the only one with one like this? ( if I am I consider myself strangely quite lucky!
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10 comments:
Oh my gosh... I can't stop laughing. He sounds like a real gem and I'm glad you appreciate him. I'm also married to my best friend but he's not nearly as amusing as yours. I'm afraid I'm the crazy one in the relationship.
That's hilarious! He sounds like a keeper!
Wow! At least you can say that you're never bored! I thought my husband was a character, but you've got me beat!
I love that about him learning to moonwalk from YouTube. He'll certainly stay young (at least at heart) this way. :)
oh my gosh. He is too funny!!!
And HOLYMOLY you guys have traveled a lot. I am super jealous of that!
I loved that he brought you back a hairdresser. :)
What a great tribute to your husband. He sounds like a great partner!
ROFL, that is so funny. Your DH sounds like a great guy and I, too, envy your travels. (Mine doesn't like to travel much.)
Don't trade him in, you'll never find another like him!
Linda
I think we all wonder this from time to time. It's been almost 12 years for me and trading him in at this point would be both expensive and a lot of damn work.
Besides, as crazy as he can drive me, I love the hell out of my man.
Yours sounds wonderfully funny and frustrating. You've had quite an adventure and I think you are one lucky woman!c
Oh, almost forgot.
Naked moonwalking...I love it!!!
Mine does this naked but-jiggle think that makes me giggle-snort no matter what kind of mood I might be in.
And he'd kill me if he knew I just told everyone on the internet. Hee Hee!!
Now I want to go on vacation with your husband.
Debbielou, you've been tagged for a meme. Details are on my website at http://flightsafancy.blogspot.com/.
I'm looking forward to learning six random things about you. (Though I'm not sure you can top the blog about your DH. It was great!)
Linda
Debs, That made me laugh so much, you have described him so well, bearing in mind I have not seen him doing a naked moonwalk, I know him and I think I can see him doing it!! We had great fun on holiday last year and felt we could risk a longer spell this year, if the going gets too tough we can always hit the bottle and leave the men to it!!!
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