Let the record show that Mrs. HM is not a spontaneous kind of gal. She's not one for dropping everything to take off at the spur-of-the-moment. No impromptu shindigs for her. You'd think Farmer H would know that by now.
Saturday morning, I saw a text from Farmer H. "Call me when you get up."
Most likely, he just wanted to know what time I got up. He's the sleep police. I'm pretty sure I have about a 150-year sentence awaiting me if convicted. Anyhoo... I called.
"Do you want to go to the casino?"
"No."
"Oh. Okay then. It's just that I'm tired of working on the $5000 house, and it's been raining, so I'm not going to sell anything at the Storage Unit Store. I just figured we could go to the casino."
"I wish you'd mentioned it last night. I could have thought about it. But now, it will be late when we get down there. I've thought it over, trying to make myself want to go. But I don't. The only fun part would be playing the machines. But my head is clogged up, and the smoke would bother me. I don't like any of their restaurants, now that the buffet is permanently closed. It's 90 minutes down there, and 90 minutes back. Besides, I've been saving my money for the trip to see The Pony this month. I don't want to lose it and have to save it back."
"Well, don't take so much, and you can't lose it."
"We hardly ever come back with more than we took. ANY amount I lose is less money to take to Oklahoma. I'd rather have it there, and have some to give to The Pony. So, no. I don't want to go."
"All right then. I might go Goodwilling."
"Uh huh. And you'll go all the way to the city, and go to THAT casino! Not that I care."
"I might. We can go up there."
"No. I don't want to spend any money. I'm SAVING money. I'll go buy my scratchers, and see if I can get more to save. I KNOW how much I'm losing on scratchers, and the trip is only 10 minutes."
So, Mrs. HM turned down a trip to a casino on Saturday. It didn't hurt a bit.
4 comments:
With such short notice and a stuffy head to boot, I wouldn't have gone either. I don't mind Goodwilling, but again, not with a stuffy head.
River,
Yeah, I had a headache by the time I got home from town yesterday. Farmer H has the sniffles. I hope he hasn't given me another lingering virus! We'll see how today goes.
Here in Australia we currently have a particularly bad strain of the Flu going around, with almost 10,000 cases so far this year with four people already having died from it. Yet some people still refuse to get vaccinated.
River,
So far, it's still a stuffy head, not progressing. When I was teaching, I always got my flu shot. They brought in people to give them to us, so I could just go up the hall on my plan time. Very convenient. They wouldn't give the shots to kids, though. Several of us asked, for our own personal kids. Nope. I had to take them to the doctor for the flu shot. They were not thrilled.
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