Monday, May 3  

Some things just don't go to plan!

Some things just don't go to plan!

Saturday night was looking good. We'd had one of my son's 10th birthday at a local park. As his 2 cousins (sons of my brother) were leaving, they asked their mum if my 2 sons (Jack and Harry) could come to their place and stay the night.

Our daughter, Laura, had already organised to stay at a friends place that night. And as much as Mel and I love our kids, all we could think of was" We're free!! Free at last!!"

(I haven't got a picture of my lovely wife on this web site anywhere - here's the only one I have on this computer - it's the wedding pic. She's even lovelier now, after 15 years of marriage. And yes, she does read this web site.)

So, there we are. Saturday night. Free.

And here's where it gets boring. But after 15 years of marriage what can you expect?!!

Firstly, we grabbed a movie from the video store. Then we went and got some pasta and pizza bread from a local Italian Restaurant we hadn't tried before. Into the bottle shop on the way home (Liquor store in the US) for a couple of bottles of wine.

I'm looking good so far!

I served the food and poured some wine. We dimmed the lights. Made ourselves comfortable on the couch. Turned on the movie. Just as Mel was about to take her first sip of wine the phone rang.

Great. Just great.

And it was Lisa. Her oldest and dearest friend whom she hadn't seen for 3 years.

I'm sitting there watching a chick-flick by myself. So I figure, okay, she might be a while. I'll start on the food. The pizza bread was burnt. Tasted like an old gumboot (not that I'd ever tasted an old gumboot, but if I did I would expect it to taste like that pizza bread).

So then I tried my pasta. That was bland, tasteless and just plain awful.

So I consoled myself with the wine. That was pretty ordinary too.

I took Mel's meal down to her and she happily scoffed it down.

I went back to Billy Crystal trying to woo Meg Ryan. As if I cared!

* The movie finished.
* The wine had been drunk.
* The food was in the bin.
* I went to bed.
* And still Mel chatted on the phone.

The only thing that went to plan was that Billy won Meg's heart!

I tell that story for these reasons:

1. My wife can talked for in excess of 3 hours without drawing breath
2. Sometimes life doesn't go as planned
3. The quality of your product - be it food or wine or widgets or canoes or curtains - needs to be good. If it is, people will happily come back and buy again. If it's not, they won't return.
4. 2 bottles of wine and I sleep very, very well.

Cheers

Brendon