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My father in law told this one, just prior to the Korean war he was working as a clerk in the army, typing the new recruits information for their file, when he asks this one recruit what his address was the recruit responded with “up on the hill behind grandma’s house.” My FIL says they never did get a real address from this guy, just a town in WV! I have always thought this was pretty funny!
Re Pharm's post "So the guy does what any rich WVian does.....he hit the shine. Being a businessman, he knew OTHER businessmen. Including the guy that owned the Cat Machinery dealer down the street. So the fellow, loaded, gets in an end loader and drives it about 15 miles or so down a few country roads and makes it back to the residence."
How about the guy who was getting divorced and his wife was getting the house. So he got a piece of heavy equipment and tore down his "half" of the house.
(We knew that guy and his brothers -- he worked for a heavy construction company).
I learned, first hand, about 20 years ago why divorces are so expensive....They're worth it!!! Had to sell a bunch of my stuff too but as DK is fond of saying, "West Virginians are survivors!!".
What's worth more than a divorce would be a college class required to make decisions about getting married in the first place. Catholics with pre- cana classes seemed to be doing ok there for a while (until they got preachy & judgemental) CNA - Resources
Personally, I love the book that came out (wish I could remember the title) that was an amalgamation of 25yr+ married couple veterans giving advice. Having a sense of humor was unanimously #1. LOL
H/B that class was taught at one time in high school...had the married couple and the baby was a hen's egg that had to be cared for...carried to class, diapered...shared responsibility...must have gotten lost in the weekend beer drinking sex orgies that the kids enjoy now...to boring to do anything like that now...how 'OLD School...
yeah DK I didnt have that in home economics back in the day. We sewed our fingers together making a pillow, cooked mac n cheese from a box, and made a hideous decoupage lamp. That was pretty useless in hindsight.
IRL, I wish I could rewrite that curriculum to explain why its a very very VERY bad idea to put regular dish soap in a dishwasher, how to read cuisinart instructions in chinese because the english translated version stinks, how to maintain a pest free pantry + avoid food poisoning, and how to cook a large ham without turning it to a 12 lb cinder. What's a meat thermometer? It's still pink, it isn't done yet.
I had to find these things out the hard way, unfortunately, but then again I've never been known for my domestic skills. Martha Stewart would be appalled- it's clean but I'm a total spazz. The lucille ball of cooking who inspires starved men to put on an apron themselves, point to the door, and ask that I never return to the kitchen for anything involving a stove.
The exception; I'm permitted to make mac n cheese from a box.
What's worth more than a divorce would be a college class required to make decisions about getting married in the first place. Catholics with pre- cana classes seemed to be doing ok there for a while (until they got preachy & judgemental) CNA - Resources
Personally, I love the book that came out (wish I could remember the title) that was an amalgamation of 25yr+ married couple veterans giving advice. Having a sense of humor was unanimously #1. LOL
HL, I spend the better part of my day trying to sort out the social lives of 20-somethings that married their girlfriend/boyfriend of 30 minutes! I feel like Dr. Phil... but better looking of course. Taking them to the Bosun' locker for wall-to-wall counseling is frowned upon these days.
I had to do the Catholic brain washing seminars to marry my wife "in the eyes of the Catholic church". You can imagine their disdain when sked what my religion was and I informed them I was Atheist. The Preist didn't enjoy my argumentative nature, and I "failed". Yeah, I'm probably the only one to accomplish that feat. We ended up getting married in a Lutheran church, with a drunken Irish Monsingor there to make it Catholicly (did I just invent a new word?) legal.
Good thing my wife has a great sense of humor! Her mother did not.
HintonBound...if its any consolation..my priest is an atheist too...but we, the congregation are not...call it a test of faith...I'm also Jewish...like a little mixture in my religion and really like the little Methodist church at the mouth of the hollow too...if this were a race sitiuation, I would probably be called one..at least by the other sides...
Comes from seeing those other religions overseas and finding out that those followers want peace too..its' a ying and yang thing...this religion business...kind of anit-dogmatic...if you know what I mean...
Good thing my wife has a great sense of humor! Her mother did not.
Hinton, did you ever win your mother in law back after that?
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Had to sell a bunch of my stuff too but as DK is fond of saying, "West Virginians are survivors!!".
