My wife is a notorious cheapskate. A skinflint. A tightwad. A penny pincher. (She once called herself a spendthrift, thinking it was synonymous with "thrifty," but she's actually the opposite of that.) Her cheapness is astonishing, & I have a lot of fun teasing her by pretending to want to buy expensive, ridiculous things, which - because she's miserly & that overpowers her sense of humor - tends to make her quite upset. Just saying things like, "It's only five hundred dollars" causes her to break into spasms of fear & anger.
Unless - of course - it's something that she wants. Like our house. It was "worth the price." I can sometimes agree with her on things like that. Except.
Except our dining room table.
It cost a lot. It cost a little too much. We don't eat off it, except when we have guests. We have guests maybe every other month. I put things on it that I can't put on my desk. I think it annoys my wife. But what can she do? We're not otherwise using the table.
I dedicate tomorrow's show, about tables, to my wife's expensive table. The show is on from 7 to 9 am tomorrow morning, Monday, on 88.1 fm in Lexington, & online at WRFL dot fm.
When I come home, I put the recording of the show on that table. Sometimes it gets buried under stuff. I'll put it on the Self Help Radio website as soon as possible - otherwise it may get buried!
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