The Games We Play

This is going to be quick as Will is in the other room deciding what to watch on the television. (I am not in the mood for a full length feature.)

I am going to confess something here that is going to essentially be a request for a big dose of organic manure (as the swedish say) from Will. I asked him to "fix the sprinkler" tonight when really I did not feel like going back outside to figure out why it was only working at a low pressure / low radius level. He says "Honey, did you break it?"

Advice: There ARE times when you do want to answer a yes or no question with exactly one of those two options. Times that come to mind are when the answer is "of course not, you idiot...." or a lengthy explaination when the explaination serves no purpose.

I say "Yes." - Why would I admit guilt for no reason? Simplicity, folks. Simplicity. He says, "Oh honey, why did you do that?" I say, "To mess with you." No controversy, just good clean humor where nobody got hurt and I didn't have to go back outside.

This is a light hearted option to a realization that could help a lot of relationships out there: Play along with your original expectation and give a lot of love to history recognized. Not just with relationships, consider any expectation that you have right now that brings you even the littlest bit of grief. Are you expecting it to be something drastically different than what you expected it to be at it's roots? That would be like getting mad at an apple tree for not giving you an orange. When, in fact, you should only be mad at an apple tree if it gives you a rotten apple as that would never have been your expectation.