Pluggers by Rick McKee for June 30, 2022

Actually, she was having in mind the JOANN Fabric and Crafts store.

My wife and I prefer estate sales over yard sales you get a much better selection

Yard Sell does sound better than “Other People’s Junk” sell ;-)

My husband and I could read each other’s minds and finish each other’s sentences! I sure miss him (gone 17 years Father’s Day!)…

my Plugger spouse and I used to be like this. But menopause seems to have taken her away…now we don’t DO anything together or SHARE anything, anymore.

Got that right

Mum told me that one day my dad came home and asked her “Did you. . .” and she replied, “Yes, and she said . . .” to which Daddy replied “Good”.

My five-year-old self jumped up and down yelling, “What’d she say? What’s she say?”

It’s still a family “line”.

This is why the wife and I try to avoid each other as much as possible. :)

Absolute fact. We go where we need/want without even asking. I guess after 48 years, we would.

Wife and I finish each other’s sentences all the time….

Didn’t the pandemic eliminate most yard sales?

Of course he wants to go. Their neighbor friends are retiring, and having the moving/yard sale. That guy had tools he would borrow, and he might be parting with a few. She just wants to go visit, while she still can.

We don’t go to yard or any other similar sales. We have enough "stuff’ in the house of our own -including the fact we share an office in the house for our two professional jobs (both part time the past decade plus) and we have a craft business which takes up most of the house – family room, basement, basement den, garage shed, office shared with this also, and as of a couple years ago – husband has the use of the living room for 11 months a year as a loom room for weaving items to sell – I get it back mid December to mid January for Christmas decorating, and our dining room has most of our stuff for reenacting – all but the clothing.

I have probably mentioned elsewhere – we text each “ok”. This can mean “dinner is ready” (I text ok to him). I am coming down for dinner – he texts back “ok”. When out walking around in stores (pre-pandemic) when he is ready to leave he texts “ok” – I text back “ok” – and he is the one looking at things, I just walk around the store in circles to spend the time and exercise.

There is other shorthand talk. This morning I told him he missed a favorite movie of ours that came on while I falling asleep last night (actually this am as we go to bed around 4 am and sleep in these months) “married people was on last night” He knows that this means that “Two for the Road” was on – it is a line used several times in the movie.

Then again there are times one of us just can’t remember – “you know the actor who was in that movie with the actress who was in…” and it is rare that the other one of us does know who is being mentioned.

(Yes, we are both major buffs which was what drew us together in the beginning.)

There were bets being taken at our wedding by our friends on how many days our marriage would last – at that point we had been dating for 6 years including engaged for 2.