Me: This thing is a puzzle.
My Beautiful Bride: Should we lay it out on the grass, first?
Me: Ok
My Beautiful Bride:
Me:
My Beautiful Bride: That didn’t help much.
Me: Maybe this bar goes here?
My Beautiful Bride: And this piece of canvas snaps here?
Me: Oh! Oh! I think I got it. If we twist this support like so, and turn the whole thing 180 degrees…
My Beautiful Bride:
Me:
My Beautiful Bride: You do -not- got it.
Me: Can you think of something better?
My Beautiful Bride: As a matter of fact, why yes. Yes, I can.
Me: Goferit baby. Make me proud.
My Beautiful Bride: Ok, help me with this new piece.
Me: Oh, I never saw that.
My Beautiful Bride: and then we tie this here.
Me: I like your optimism.
My Beautiful Bride: and this we zip here….
Me: Getting closer…
My Beautiful Bride: and then we connect the three ends like so…
Me: You are en fuego! Go girl.
My Beautiful Bride: Ooooh. The backstay won’t fit through the dodger.
Me: Damn backstay!
My Beautiful Bride: Do we need the backstay?
Me:
My Beautiful Bride:
Me:
My Beautiful Bride:
Me: I give up. How bout a gin and tonic?
My Beautiful Bride: You took the words right out of my mouth.
Higher Power: he he he
You are so wrong for that misrepresentation of my comments “do we need the backstay?”. Slander, I say! I never said anything of the sort. I will however take credit for getting most of that contraption together.
Comment by Dana — August 30, 2007 @ 12:59 pm
It’s a Thought Experiment! Not a real story. The real story is boring. And a little sad.
Comment by DavidB — August 30, 2007 @ 2:15 pm
Perhaps if the male subject of this thought experiment had simply let the female subject get on with it without interruption, it would have been a much shorter thought experiment. Experimentally speaking.
Comment by euphrosyne1115 — August 31, 2007 @ 11:09 pm
Hmmm, is everybody missing the point here? A freakin’ dodger? How does The Speed Merchant reconcile a DODGER? I can understand a bimini and maybe one of those winch handle powered blenders, but a dodger?
Comment by Edward — September 4, 2007 @ 6:11 pm
I know, a dodger. I was shocked, SHOCKED, but didn’t want to embarrass anybody.
Comment by euphrosyne1115 — September 5, 2007 @ 12:12 am
hey happy late birthday to you, me, John McCain, Michael Jackson, and Roy Oswalt. Hope all is going well.
Comment by Brian Kennedy — September 13, 2007 @ 9:16 pm