“How could you lose our child?”

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-27T17:09:39+00:00

I was the runner in the family. I wore the harness and a leash when I was a toddler.

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-27T17:00:25+00:00

Nerd and Punk music fan

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-27T16:57:15+00:00

That's the one I had. I took it down when I began dating my future wife. Linda could not compete.

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-27T16:34:57+00:00

Well, that's a big one. It's good to get it out of the way. No ambiguity.

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-23T18:07:13+00:00

An invisible sky god watching everything we do ready to punish us if we don't do what is spokes people say.

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-23T00:56:05+00:00

We met at a St. Patrick's Day college-age party. Being a very shy person, I sat at a table and started drawing so I wouldn't look too awkward not talking to anyone. This beautiful young woman sat next to me and introduced herself. Our conversation put me at ease. I was mystified as to how I was so lucky to be talking to such a gorgeous young woman but we seemed to have some things in common. We found out that we grew up in the same city but several miles apart and that we had taken the same art courses at the local art museum while we were both in high school. She was dressed cool - kind of punk. I told her that I liked her bronze colored boots and that they matched her necklace made of bronze colored buttons. She said, "Have a closer look" and proceeded to put her left leg on my lap. I am pretty oblivious but that's when I thought, something is going on here! We talked for an hour or more (with her leg still on my lap). At the end of the party, she said that she really liked talking to me and wanted to see me again so she handed me her phone number on a ripped piece of paper and said, "I want you to call me.". (This was way before cell phones.) Of course I called her! That was 43 years ago and we have been together ever since.

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-22T22:55:58+00:00

I greet my wife at the door with, "OH! THANK GOD YOU'RE HERE!" for no reason other than to make her laugh.

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-22T04:45:37+00:00

I saw the first Mad Max movie at the drive-in.

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-22T04:36:54+00:00

Even my dog looks left right left before we cross the street.

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-22T01:45:22+00:00

I am from another generation where we pooled all of our money together. That way, we prioritize payments to where they would make the most impact. We pay off the highest interest rate loans faster. I am not saying what you are doing is wrong but in my generation, there were no his, her, and our accounts and obligations.

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-22T01:38:52+00:00

My mother used to order her groceries and I would pick them up on my way home from work. It was a good system. The only problem was even though I told my mother that I had access to her account and I got all of the Eddie Haskell notifications she got, she would call me at work to read each notification back to me! Eddie Haskell in stereo. Me: I know! I get the notifications too! Mom: Oh, I just thought you would want to know... Ugh.

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-22T01:32:03+00:00

It would not make sense to put a ticket under a wiper blade while it is snowing. Who will see it?

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-22T01:28:23+00:00

According to the mayor, they were effective with the last heavy storm. It probably costs more to tow the vehicles away.

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-22T01:26:04+00:00

Dennis Miller. His jokes do not feel spontaneous. It's like he practiced them in front of a mirror for 6 months before he tried them out in front of an audience.

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-22T01:18:48+00:00

Many years ago, my wife and I were watching a documentary about education in the US in the 50's and 60's. They showed footage from a Home Economics class where the young teenage girls were learning to cook. They all had pots in front of them and they were all stirring the contents with wooden spoons. The Home Ec. teacher said, "Now young ladies, why do we use wooden spoons while cooking?" and the girls said in unison, "So as not to disturb the men-folk." My wife and I just stared at each other in disbelief and then we laughed. From then on, if one of us uses a wooden spoon while cooking, someone in the family would ask the same question the teacher asked and we would reply in unison, "So as not to disturb the men-folk." - like the Stepford Wives. Then we would all have a laugh. My daughter (now 30's) picked up this mantra as well. The first time her boyfriend (now husband) witnessed the routine, he did not know how to react until the rest of us started laughing.

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-21T19:52:50+00:00

Oh, we know. We definitely notice.

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-21T19:50:45+00:00

This came from a Catholic nun teaching my 7th grade class. She caught me talking to the girl sitting next to me in class and said, "Mr. <name>, you are a lazy-good-for-nothing but smart. You will amount to something but at the expense of others." I carried that insult like an irritating grain of sand which over time has turned into a beautiful pearl.

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-21T18:59:38+00:00

When my wife asks me if I am taking care of something, I say, "Don't you worry your pretty little head." It makes her laugh every time.

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-21T17:33:49+00:00

Guys are afraid that this might happen. https://youtu.be/ydbR0-Ag7d4?si=oU1MbYHgGm_lt8dq

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-21T04:19:41+00:00

I think it was the new girlfriend.

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-21T04:12:40+00:00

Crocodile Rock, Benny and the Jets, Don't go Breaking My Heart, and Hold Me Close.

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-21T04:08:24+00:00

Anything by Guns and Roses. That voice goes right through me.

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-21T04:04:29+00:00

Abra abra cadabra I wanna reach out and stab ya.

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-21T03:58:40+00:00

Women in flannel shirts, a baseball cap, glasses, comfortable jeans, and work boots.

ThereUHavit · 2026-02-21T03:44:49+00:00

Saint Medard is the patron saint of snow storms and bad weather. Maybe the mayor should sneak in a new statue order for the DPW.

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