Drabble by Kevin Fagan for October 18, 2020

So remember, Ralph, “next time” means NOW!

I’m not sure I like this new, apronless “Honeybunch”.

I was once berated for not hanging up my clothes. BTW, those better not be wire hangers.

Tell her, “You’re the swift one around here, you can take them up now, or I can get them (insert air quotes here) ’The next time I go upstairs.’”

I do my own laundry, so I don’t have that problem.

I do the laundry, but my wife’s clothes go in a laundry basket for her to deal with.

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Still haven’t learned? Sheesh!

“Whenever it’s convenient for you” in wifespeak means “Whenever it’s convenient for me”.

If you really want to upset your wife in a fun way, drop everything that you are doing and do whatever chore she asks immediately. First, she will wonder, “what’s happening here”. Next, as wives are known to nag, you will now take away that joy from her and she will get upset because she can’t nag you. Or you might be the lucky guy that gets rewarded in the bedroom for doing it. A win win…..

She should say what she means.

I don’t know how those shirts ended up in the laundry – I’ve never seen Ralph wearing them. I always assumed he had an entire wardrobe filled with identical shirts.

Ralph and swift… hmmm.

Nope

Can’t see it

Regardless how long they have been married, June does iron his shirts and still looks pretty perky.

Ralph has a thought bubble in panel 7: “Bend over, Honeybunch, and I’ll show you how swift my foot is on the uptake.”

Be patient, he’ll eventually go up stairs. Now if he goes upstairs without the clothes, it’s naggin’ time.

I’m sure the world will come crashing to a halt if he has to quit playing on his phone for a couple of minutes and do something. It is not like it is such a hard job or that he is so busy.

then say what you mean, woman!

Sure honey, just hang them upstairs.

next time to me means exactly what says…next time he goes up stairs; not now. she should have said “would you please take your clean shirts upstairs now so they won’t get wrinkled”

Try to be honest and not manipulative.

I wouldn’t make the extra trip upstairs, so I wouldn’t ask husband to do so either. If I asked to take something up when he goes up – he would legitimately forget to do so – if I leave my sweatshirt in the office when I go down to cook dinner, I will only include the request for him to bring it down for me when I text him to come down and hopefully he will not forget between his desk and the door of the office.

Clean laundry goes upstairs (at the end of the evening when we are going up to bed) in the laundry basket – his shirts spread across the top. I hang his shirts in his closet and then fold the rest of the laundry in bed, by the light of the TV, while he goes to sleep, tossing my tee shirt blouses to the foot of the bed to hang the next night. After folding is done socks and underwear is put away (still by the light of the TV ) and my tee shirts tossed back into the basket. Towels and bed linens come upstairs the next night. First I hang my tee shirts, then I fold the rest in bed the same way. They are put away the next day.