Mrs. HM Is John Travolta

Did you ever see Urban Cowboy? When John Travolta as Bud gets all hung up in a safety rope on the side of an oil silo thingamabob, and breaks his arm? His mom comes over to the trailer Bud shares with Debra Winger as Sissy, to make him something to eat, because Sissy isn't home, being out secretly practicing to ride the mechanical bull at Gilley's.

Anyhoo...when Sissy finally gets home, Bud acts all Pity Party Guest Of Honor, and whines to Sissy that she's not doing her wifely duties (okay, he knows THAT part is good), and his mom had to clean the house, and when she went to make cornbread (because cornbread tastes real good when you're hurt) she couldn't even find a box of instant!

I didn't break my arm on an oil silo thingamabob, but I DID get hurt on our trip to Oklahoma. It just so happened that I hurt my own arm. In a casino. In the bathroom.

Maybe I zoomed in a little too close. That's the top of my left forearm, about two inches from the elbow. Because I also zoomed in a little too close to the door in the women's restroom, hitting my tender fleshy forearm on the latch that sticks out. The injury is just a few minutes old here, when we sat down at the little cafe in Downstream Casino to have lunch. Not much discoloration, but a solid knot under the skin.

On the walk from the restrooms at the front of the casino, to the cafe in the back, I showed Farmer H my arm, and told him what happened. Expecting sympathy. Sympathy feels real good when you're hurt. Of course I expected my Sweet Baboo to say how sorry he was, and ask if I was okay, and was there anything he could do.

I'm sure you'll be shocked [SHOCKED] to find out that's not how it went down.

"I cain't believe you done that!"

Uh huh. That's all I got. Even after he felt the knot. Not so much sympathy, as ridicule.

Juno is going to be unhappy with me. When Farmer H hogs her house and snores while she's trying to sleep.