July 01, 2004
Public Service Announcement for Men !!!
Question: When your wife buys a pint of Ben & Jerry's Brownie Batter Ice Cream (or any other super-duper chocolate concoction), when do you (husband) get to stick your spoon inside to taste it?
Answer: N-E-V-E-R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Keep your grubby paws off our chocolate!!!!
Got it!
I'll have to show my wife this. Last time she stuck her spoon in my dessert, I told her that when I die, I want as my epitaph, "Get Your Own".
You can imagine that that has been thrown back in my face on more than a few occasions since.
Posted by: Old Whig at July 1, 2004 01:17 PMOld Whig,
I can imagine some unfortunate circumstances when a wife might tell you to "get your own."
Posted by: Big Dan at July 1, 2004 01:30 PMI should show this to Amy, because whenever she gets something like that, she always tries to get me to try it, and I can't because it would ruin my diet (not the taste so much as the inevitable caving that would follow -- it's like saying to the addict "just shoot up a tiny bit of heroin).
Posted by: Geoff Brown at July 1, 2004 01:42 PMIs it at least permissible to say, "Honey do you really need to eat all that?"
I'm just checking.
Posted by: Zygote at July 1, 2004 02:34 PMWhen my wife buys Ben and Jerry's ice cream, I tell her to stop buying Ben and Jerry's ice cream. Damned socialist twerps.
Posted by: Xrlq at July 1, 2004 02:34 PMThey are owned by Breyers (big Ice Cream)!!!!
It's all good Xrlq!
Zygote,
It's a pint and if you keep your grubby paws off it - it'll last us 3 or 4 days. Got it!
Posted by: Rosemary the Queen of All Evil at July 1, 2004 02:49 PMHell in my house I make all the money so I can damn well take a bite of ice cream "I" paid for.
Mind you I usually use the "look Elvis!" trick to do so.
Posted by: GT at July 1, 2004 02:56 PMDid you buy one for him too?
If not, why not? I thought marriage was about love, and sharing, and all that.
It's true that he should have been wise enough to know better. :)
Posted by: DSmith at July 1, 2004 03:02 PMHell no. I didn't buy him one.
He's 50% the reason I "need" the ice cream in the first place!
He knows where the store is, has his own money, has car keys or legs, and certainly knows where the ice cream aisle is in the store. Really...
There are certain things that ARE NOT shared.
Posted by: Katherine at July 1, 2004 03:51 PMThank you, Katherine!
Posted by: Rosemary the Queen of All Evil at July 1, 2004 04:45 PMHAIL TO THE QUEEN OF ALL CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM!!!!
Posted by: Steven Malcolm Anderson the Lesbian-worshipping gun-loving selfish aesthete at July 1, 2004 05:58 PMZygote. It is questions like that that will keep you from growing up to be an embryo someday. Keep it up and you won't even make it to cleavage*.
*Obscure biology reference not what you are thinking.
Posted by: punctilious at July 1, 2004 06:18 PMRosemary,
Take that man to court! I think he is obligated to purchase a whole new pint and then has to sit there and watch you eat the whole thing.
Rachel Ann, shaking her head at the audacity of the whole thing.
Posted by: Rachel Ann at July 2, 2004 12:42 AMI have found that talking up concern for your own svelte figure as so overpowering that you probably could not even bear to eat more than a few bites at a time of your very favorite fully fattening extremely chocolate ice cream can lead unsuspecting males to buy some for you, assuming that you will just nibble and they will get the rest. Hah!! Those gullible x-chromosome challenged ones are such tools.
Posted by: Ayn Clouter at July 2, 2004 04:13 PMSo, Rosemary,
damn, I can't say what I want to say, even though I know why.
You eat that ice cream, sweetie! And have Dean go out for more.
I'm thinking I really should bake you those brownies!
Posted by: beth at July 2, 2004 10:32 PM