Irritating Spouse Habit # 7,543,212

[pegkerr]

We have several thousand books in our house. And the maddening thing is, no matter how many books we have, the book Rob keeps trying to pick up is the one I'm in the middle of reading.

We go on vacation. Rob packs fifteen books, I pack one or two. And he starts reading the book I'm reading.

Today, I received in the mail the Philip K. Dick book that Bruce (minnehaha) is lending me, in response to my earlier post about seeing "Minority Report." Delighted, I brought it upstairs and left it on the bed, intending to dip into it this weekend. Rob got home and within an hour had picked it up and started reading it.

I'm going to go to bed and thwap my husband until he disgorges his unlawful contraband.

Peg, snarling

Comments

[serendipoz.livejournal.com]

You make Rob sound like a cat - always lying right where you're reading!

(Hi Peg!)

Hi, Joyce!

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Good to know you're on LiveJournal, too. (I'm gradually finding there are number of us Minnesotans here)

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Successful relationships require judo. Remember: when you can predict someone's actions, then you can control them.

Not only can you determine what he reads--significant power in itself--but all you have to do to keep your own books safe is to lay out a decoy.

B