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PENNY WISE and DOLLAR POOR ???
OR .............. IS IT:
DOLLAR WISE and PENNY POOR ???
Ever have one of those days that you either should not have gotten up or kept your mouth shut ??
.........................................................or BOTH.
Well this was one of those times....see what you think.....who’s RIGHT.....huh ??
This happened back a couple of years ago when we...errrrr I.... bought the Porsche.
We start our day at the kitchen table with coffee.
Barbie brings out the cordless and sits it on the table to start our calls for the day. Now she read that cordless phones are as bad as cell phones to hold next to your head while using it ...so she pushes the speaker button and makes her calls.
She calls information to get a number and while she listens to it ...she doesn’t write it down, BUT allows the phone company to place the call for an extra 30 cents...........making this transaction a total of $1.60.
When she hangs up I ask her why she didn’t look up the number as it was an older established company and was certainly in the phone book.
She answers that she didn’t have the book handy...........so I say Well I would have gotten it for you. I get one of those Hmmmmmmmm’s.
So then I ask her ...Well why didn’t you write the number down rather then spending the extra 30 cents letting the phone company place the call.
Well she says...............uhhhhhhhhhh I didn’t have a pencil or paper, BUT I say I would have gotten it for you and we wouldn’t have spent the extra 30 cents ....that’s not right ...it’s just throwing money away.
OK.........she gives me one of those double raised eyebrow looks........Guys you all know what this means:
DID YOU REALLY SAY THAT ???????
It then turns into the “ one raised eyebrow look “ Yes, guys, we ALL know that look...it means that:
She is sighting a bullet to send our way or at least a judo chop is headed for my neck.
Maybe Kung Fu Steve can chime in here: Is there any defense posture that us guys can take to ward off this attack???? Sure would like to know it if there is one.
How much did we spend for the Porsche she asks.
Well I say a little over 90 thousand..........................hmmmmmmm she says:
YOU are giving ME trouble over a lousy 30 cents when YOU spend about $23,000 per tire for that car, which I may add dropped down to about $19,000 per tire in value when we drove off the lot....hmmmmmm ?
What that’s got to do with anything I foolishly ask.....
Do I have to spell it out for you she says. Well, look I say ...you liked the car too and we wouldn’t have been able to get it at all without you. Yeah......how so she says. I told you the salesman said that he didn’t like my looks and if I hadn’t had you along they wouldn’t have sold me the car at all.
Is this another one of those pretty wife thingies again she asks? If so, it won’t work this time...NOT over 90 grand.
It’s true I say..... Look I had to beg for the Porsche key fob and look what he did for you: YOU got 2 blouses, a cap and a sweater from the apparel shop FREE....that proves it.
That’s no excuse she says........I don’t want to hear about a lousy 30 cents anymore.
So guys .......who’s right ??????
I say :if I can save that 30 cents ....which is really $1.60 ...shouldn’t I do it???? :smx4:
OR .............. IS IT:
DOLLAR WISE and PENNY POOR ???
Ever have one of those days that you either should not have gotten up or kept your mouth shut ??
.........................................................or BOTH.
Well this was one of those times....see what you think.....who’s RIGHT.....huh ??
This happened back a couple of years ago when we...errrrr I.... bought the Porsche.
We start our day at the kitchen table with coffee.
Barbie brings out the cordless and sits it on the table to start our calls for the day. Now she read that cordless phones are as bad as cell phones to hold next to your head while using it ...so she pushes the speaker button and makes her calls.
She calls information to get a number and while she listens to it ...she doesn’t write it down, BUT allows the phone company to place the call for an extra 30 cents...........making this transaction a total of $1.60.
When she hangs up I ask her why she didn’t look up the number as it was an older established company and was certainly in the phone book.
She answers that she didn’t have the book handy...........so I say Well I would have gotten it for you. I get one of those Hmmmmmmmm’s.
So then I ask her ...Well why didn’t you write the number down rather then spending the extra 30 cents letting the phone company place the call.
Well she says...............uhhhhhhhhhh I didn’t have a pencil or paper, BUT I say I would have gotten it for you and we wouldn’t have spent the extra 30 cents ....that’s not right ...it’s just throwing money away.
OK.........she gives me one of those double raised eyebrow looks........Guys you all know what this means:
DID YOU REALLY SAY THAT ???????
It then turns into the “ one raised eyebrow look “ Yes, guys, we ALL know that look...it means that:
She is sighting a bullet to send our way or at least a judo chop is headed for my neck.
Maybe Kung Fu Steve can chime in here: Is there any defense posture that us guys can take to ward off this attack???? Sure would like to know it if there is one.
How much did we spend for the Porsche she asks.
Well I say a little over 90 thousand..........................hmmmmmmm she says:
YOU are giving ME trouble over a lousy 30 cents when YOU spend about $23,000 per tire for that car, which I may add dropped down to about $19,000 per tire in value when we drove off the lot....hmmmmmm ?
What that’s got to do with anything I foolishly ask.....
Do I have to spell it out for you she says. Well, look I say ...you liked the car too and we wouldn’t have been able to get it at all without you. Yeah......how so she says. I told you the salesman said that he didn’t like my looks and if I hadn’t had you along they wouldn’t have sold me the car at all.
Is this another one of those pretty wife thingies again she asks? If so, it won’t work this time...NOT over 90 grand.
It’s true I say..... Look I had to beg for the Porsche key fob and look what he did for you: YOU got 2 blouses, a cap and a sweater from the apparel shop FREE....that proves it.
That’s no excuse she says........I don’t want to hear about a lousy 30 cents anymore.
So guys .......who’s right ??????
I say :if I can save that 30 cents ....which is really $1.60 ...shouldn’t I do it???? :smx4:
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