So, among other things, here's a convo from last weekend: W: You have something to do when we get back home. H: Hmmm. What? W: It's one of your favorite things. H: Oh Yeah? W: You get to do it once a year. H: Great! I get to have hot sex with you?! W: (seething). It's always about sex with you. NO. You get to put up the Christmas lights outside.
Now folks, if you're new here, here's the deal: I'm Jewish. When I met my wife, she was Episcopalian, and recently has converted to/started calling herself Buddhist. Why should we be putting up lights at all? I really want to tell her that I have no desire to do this, that it makes no sense for us to do this, and that we are going to be out of town from Christmas to New Years' anyway.
I understand that this is not, as JJ would put it, a sex-for-services deal. I'm not offering to put the lights up if she has sex with me. Rather, I'm just saying that I don't want to put the lights up at all. She's free to try to persuade me in any way she wants (as if), but I don't want to put the g.d. lights up.
