“Did you see what the Joneses got?” Marco gazed out the window.
“Don’t tell me you are falling for this nonsense!”
Marco swallowed a retort. His wife often yelled first and considered second. Getting into an argument in ‘phase one’ only delayed (or destroyed any possibility for) ‘phase two.’
“So?” her hands left wrinkled wet spots on her kitchen apron.
“I’m considering it,” he allowed. Silence tended to increase her ire.
“And for what Godawful blasted reason?”
He shrugged and tried for his one-sided smile. It used to work like magic in the past. Still did, sporadically. Worth a try.
The corners of her eyebrows shifted slightly away from each other. Good or bad, he wasn’t sure, but it was now or never.
“We could tie our Blimp to it, Dear. It is all the rage to have one’s own anchor. Makes it so much easier to unload the groceries.”
For Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge #64
Na'ama Yehuda 
Love it. Nice little chuckle. 🙂
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🙂 Yeah, because who wants to ‘park their blimp’ in a public anchor when they can have their own, eh? 😉
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And it’s so to the river. But I particularly liked the thing about unloading the groceries 🙂
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You gotta appeal to her greed, you do. 😉
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I stopped trying to keep up with the Jones’ just before that blimp episode. I already wasted too much money on that bicycle built for six, like the ones the Jones bought.
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Yeah, and then you had to build a new garage to accommodate the bike and as soon as you had, the fad became an 8 person bike with a custom made garage of a certain brand, eh … 😉
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It’s never ending…
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Exactly!!😁
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This was way too much fun, Na’ama! I love this. Keeping up with the Joneses is exhausting, not to mention expensive!
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But … but … it can help with unloading the groceries!!! 😀
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But can it help put them away? Can it? No… 😉
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This might not, but wait till you see the Robot the Joneses got today! It puts groceries away AND it folds your laundry (doesn’t sort it, though). It’s all the rage! 😀
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NOW you are talking. No, don’t need the laundry robot, just get me the house-cleaning one, k?
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I think that’s next week’s Joneses edition… 😀
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Excellent… coz… no one touches my laundry 😉
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LOL! I wish I could say that about mine! Forget having my own washer-dryer — my little building doesn’t even have a laundry room!! We have to either lug our stuff to a laundromat (not so nearby, spend half-day there) or have it done by the near-by wash-n-fold which DEFINITELY involves others touching my laundry …
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