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Posted 05-18-2008 at 09:19 AM by Bobby J
Updated 05-18-2008 at 09:25 AM by Bobby J
written for 30A review Oct. 2007
On my way home from work the other day, I passed a truck with my desk strapped to the back of it. At first glance, I thought I was being robbed. I quickly called The Better Half to see who had broken into our house. After just one ring, she answered the phone with her normal chipper voice, “Hiya Honey…you will never guess what I just did….” I knew instantly that that my beloved desk had fallen victim to the infamous Beverly Johnson Donate to a Good Cause Foundation. There really isn’t such a foundation, but she has given so much of my stuff away “To Good Cause” that I had to create a name for it. I think the name The Stealth Donator is also appropriate because she strikes without warning and nothing is safe, or sacred. One time she admits attempting to donate one of the kids to a couple struggling with fertility, “We have three and they have none she tried to explain. It is simple math!” Personally I think she was just mad at them for watching too much TV, or not doing the dishes. I drew a line in the sand, no donating kids or surfboards. She reluctantly agreed. All kidding aside, The Better Half has taken the term “Charity Begins at Home” to heart, and has made it her philosophy of life.
I should have known it was coming. Just three months after I proposed to her with a pair of platinum diamond rings, she actually gave her wedding ring to my brother. (Seriously, this is a true story; I couldn’t make this up if I tried) She...
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