Today, at work I'm talking to Lynn at my desk. Lynn began his government service as a radio operator in the back of B-25 bomber during the Big War, just to give you an idea of how long he's been around. He's also a life-long Utah resident.
As we are talking some shop, Terrie strolls past, behind Lynn and down the walkway. I turned back from looking as she passed by and said to Lynn, "I wish she would marry me."
Lynn cocked his eyebrow at me and says, "Aren't you already married?"
"Sure," says I, "but living here, that's not insurmountable..."
"No," Lynn advises me, "you can't have two wives if you're going to have plural wives. You can have three, but not two."
"But what if I only want two women," I asked.
"Nope, its got to be three. Two will choose sides against the man every time. If there's a third wife, two of them will choose sides against the third and the man will get left out of the arguments. Everybody knows that."
I suppose you already knew that too. It just never occurred to me before!
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