"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 06:40:26 -0500, Eisboch wrote:

Gould 0738 wrote:
There is, however, one benefit to her horse hobby. I can use it as
leverage when I need a new gadget for the boat.


My wife does the same thing, in reverse. Whenever she decides she wants
something in the "talk about it first" category, she merely calculates
the
number of "moorage months" involved in her prospective purchase. Darn,
she's
shrewd.

In fact she's very shrewd. I love dogs, but I have a cat instead. My
wife
*hates* dogs. She has said, "It's me, or a dog." I tease her that when
I come
home with a dog, she'll know its time to pack her stuff...(more likely
she'd
pack mine.)

She's smart enough to know that she doesn't want to present, "It's me
or the
boat." There are some things, like a dog, that a guy could live
without.....

Oh, man. :-) Mrs.E actually suggested that once in a hypothetical way.
During one of our "conversations" she asked how I would like it if she
said that I had to choose between her and the boat, and I answered,
"Well, I suppose there is some things I can live without". She doesn't
always appreciate my humor and I damn near caught a horseshoe off the
back of my head.

It funny, but my family never once, even in theory, have begrudged me
the boats I've owned over the years.

Then again, it get's me out of the house and out of their hair. [1]

Later,

Tom

I must've gotten lucky. Two months before I got my boat, my ex was
constantly feeling miserable about our financial situation. It wasn't bad -
it was just a completely different way of looking at things. Anyway, one day
I'm sitting on the couch with boat brochures. She sits down (and this is
January) and says something like "Well, I don't know the solution to the
money problem, but I think you should buy the boat anyway. It'll be like a
hundred a month on your Visa card (cheap boat), and since our son's too big
for 3 of us to fit the canoe, it'll be another way to get outside more
often. I'll wait till April to look at pianos."

I just kept my mouth shut, got up, and called the marina to find out how
late they were open. The deal was done the same day.