The Duel.

From time to time, the wife and I will enter into a vocal altercation which I like to call “The Duel” (yes it’s “The”, I realize it happens more than once so it can’t be uniquely referred to, but its such a momentous occasion, that is has to be like that.)

These Duels occur any time one of us says something to the other that the other contends is flat out wrong. It could be a scientific fact: “I am absolutely sure the moon is 45,000 miles from Earth“, or it could be a more relational type of fact: “Your brother said he wanted a [whatever] for Christmas.”

Once the fact has been asserted by person A, person B has a choice. They can either let it go, and assume that person A was correct, or they can challenge it. Challenging it can be dangerous, but sometimes it must be done. If we happen to remember, we usually look up the answer on the Intarnets and let it settle who won.

A recent duel dealt with whether it takes more or less keystrokes on a Nokia or Motorola cell phone to get to a persons name in your Contacts list if their name was one of the last to start with a given letter. I was slain in that duel.

A duel last night was a very odd one. We were driving, and it was dark. I flipped the rear view mirror so that it was shaded, and in the reflection of headlights behind me, I read that someone had written in the smudges on the mirror, “H DID IT.” (that is, deh wife did it.)

Did what? Yeah, not really sure. Probably did the writing on the mirror, or so I reasoned. I immediately asked her why she did that, and the duel was on. She started with the typical “I never write on mirrors”, so I asked her who else could have done it. In a sheer fit of impossibility, she asserted that it was obviously ME who did it, and that I forgot about it, and now that forgetting was allowing the me-of-several-weeks/months-ago to accuse her of doing something I did!

She’s probably right.

Today’s Funny Link: The Great McDonald’s Sign Prank