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Conversations With A Wife #2
Posted on July 18, 2008 in The Other Half by Andy @ Yellow Swordfish13 Comments »

On my recent trip to the USA I bought a few t-shirts. I like t-shirts but I particularly like American t-shirts as they are generally made without seams at the sides and do not twist after a few washes. Actually the fabric always seems better as well. The picture is NOT one of my t-shirts by the way – just a random image I came across.

So, this morning I put one of these shirts on that happens to have a rather large Las Vegas motif printed on the back. It is a similar colour to the one in the photo. I was worried that it looked stupid.

“Do I look stupid in this t-shirt” I ask my wife just before we take the dogs out for their morning constitutional. She looks me over thoughtfully..

“What are you?” She asks, “56? 57?”

“What’s that got to do with it?” I say.

There is a slight pause…

“Beige” she says.

It’s amazing just how much scorn she got into that word.


Read the other conversations items:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5

13 Responses to “Conversations With A Wife #2”

  1. on 18 Jul 2008 at 11:52 pm1thud

    Beige comes in for rather too much stick in my opinion…embrace the beige!

    thuds last blog post..California dreaming.

  2. on 19 Jul 2008 at 1:15 am2Andy @ Yellow Swordfish

    @thud: oooh yes. A nice polyester beige cardigan… and beige slippers! Oh I am beside myself!

  3. on 19 Jul 2008 at 1:35 am3Wife

    Hey! I was doing this one! LOL!

    You failed to admit what you said to me after that, too! I could probably sue.

  4. on 19 Jul 2008 at 1:46 am4Andy @ Yellow Swordfish

    @Wife: Ah! I had forgotten my riposte! Anyway Your version is different to mine. Beige memory as well then!

  5. on 19 Jul 2008 at 3:05 am5Babs - beetle

    Now, being female, which of the two versions would I lean toward believing do you think? ;O)

    Babs – beetles last blog post..This made my day!

  6. on 19 Jul 2008 at 10:38 am6gemmak

    Hmmmm….beige, I’ll say nothing! ;o)

    gemmaks last blog post..Saturday sojourn

  7. on 19 Jul 2008 at 2:22 pm7Jeni

    Shoulda had the motif on the front Andy.

  8. on 20 Jul 2008 at 12:44 am8DrowseyMonkey

    Hmmm… well this is a little different from the version I just read at theDeppEffect … ohhhh who to believe, who to believe. LOL You 2 crack me up.

    DrowseyMonkeys last blog post..Doodle Pets

  9. on 20 Jul 2008 at 1:04 am9Truden

    I stick to blue.
    It never goes against my age :)

    Trudens last blog post..Bertrand Russell’s theory of knowledge (I can not believe it…!)

  10. on 20 Jul 2008 at 8:41 am10Andy @ Yellow Swordfish

    @DrowseyMonkey: Me..me. You believe me! We were not too far out. Remember that several hours had gone by before we both wrote it up. The old little grey cells probably don’t work as reliably as they used to….

    @Truden: I am a big fan of blue :)

  11. on 27 Jul 2008 at 6:10 pm11How to get a woman to be brief?

    [...] point didn’t seam to be close, I took her to my laptop and asked her: “Would you please read this?” She looked at me in a specific woman’s way and started reading. A pleasant silence [...]

  12. on 10 Aug 2008 at 2:27 pm12English Mum

    I’m sorry, I liked her version better. I’m with GemmaK. Beige? Purleeeeeeease :)

    English Mums last blog post..In which English Towers is nearly razed to the ground

  13. on 29 Oct 2008 at 1:20 pm13Kevin Phoenix

    Now I know why I left blighty. Thank goodness that beige is the latest “tendance” in France.

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