yesss im always saying this like sure i can give you logical advice but at the end of the day you can just do what you want to do until youre sick of it. cant move on cant switch gears til youre sick of it so go ahead and indulge
I think any marriage needs its running jokes, ones that you can repeat with variations, or make callbacks too.
One of my favorite bits is describing the romcoms I watch to my wife as though I have never heard of a narrative in my life.
“She runs a small plane company, and he’s from a major airline trying to shut her down, so it’s really anyone’s guess what’s going to happen.”
“Get this, he’s a stuffy office dork and she’s a free spirit, and they end up stuck in the same cabin on a cruise. Sounds like a disaster, right?”
“They’ve decided to pair up and be each other’s plus one at a series of weddings to feel less pathetic, but it’s not like they like each other or anything.”
So I told my wife that I hoped she would still enjoy me doing this bit forty years from now, and she smiled and held my hand and said that she’d never liked it, not even the first time.
when i was in middle school nickelodeon on directv broke and it froze on the same frame for five hours. which would not have been so bad, except it was during the episode of spongebob where he goes to live with the jellyfish. specifically the scene where he’s naked and covered in sea urchins and flopping all over the place trying to get them off. and it froze on the frame where spongebob was facedown on the ground, naked. so he was laying there like that in complete silence for five hours. we would change the channel back every so often to see if he’d gotten up, but he was still like that when we went to bed. none of my friends had directv so when i asked them the next day they hadn’t seen it, but my brother and i were pretty convinced that spongebob was dead.
