A conversation from our ‘Perfect Domestic Environment’ this evening:
ME: If you like, I can start clearing out the garage next weekend
HER: Why would you do that?
ME: It would be nice to clear a space in there, for a drum kit, maybe
HER: Does this house strike you as a house that needs a drum kit in the garage?
ME: Well, it would be nice to start making it our own
HER: But it’s not ours
ME: No, but it might be in the future
HER: So you want to start re-arranging a house that isn’t ours, to make it look more like it is ours, in the vain hope that two years down the line or beyond, there might be a strange twist of circumstances that end with us buying it and staying here?
ME: Pretty much
HER: And what if it isn’t ours in the future?
ME: Then we’ll have had some practice at making a home our own, before we even get a home of our own. It’s a win-win situation.
Pause
HER: This new job of yours?
ME: What about it?
HER: You don’t work any evenings, right?
ME: Not unless we’re short staffed.
HER: And you get weekends off, right?
ME: Just work one Saturday a month.
Pause
HER: This could be a real test of our relationship..
Bloody women.
RC 23-9-14
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