An interesting three years

Yesterday was our wedding anniversary.

Flushed with my success at actually remembering, I gave she who must be obeyed a big hug and said “thank you for three interesting years”, which I thought was pithy, if not overly romantic. She responded with “thank you for three interesting, wonderful, loving, caring, happy years”, which simultaneously made me feel good, and a bit of a shit for not being similarly effusive.

Still, I recovered the situation by mumbling “yeah, and that too”, which I am sure did the trick.

Then there was the present. Or not. I checked the web and discovered that three years is the “leather anniversary”. I was hoping for tin or reconstituted wood pulp; leather led inexorably to shoes or handbags, and no way was I heading in that direction. But I did buy her dinner at Alois, which is almost exactly the same as Brunos only in a different location; and somehow not as good.

Who said romance was dead? She who must be obeyed, probably.

Comments 🔗

2009-07-08 | Pete says

Perhaps you should have gone to a cheaper restaurant that would have done an imitation of leather in a nice black pepper sauce. Happy anniversary anyway, may there be many more to come.

2009-07-08 | Spike says

Thanks.

2009-07-08 | genuinej says

What’s romance? Check the definitions on Dictionary.com to guarantee even more confusion. I’m with SWMBO. Well, I’d certainly like to be.

2009-07-09 | Derze says

Hey. Congrats!!!

2009-07-10 | Spike says

Thanks Derze.

genuinej, romance is not looking up the word “romance” in a dictionary. But I did anyway, and I found “a baseless, made-up story, usually full of exaggeration or fanciful invention”. Pretty much sums up Pattayadays.com.