My wife, ever the s**t disturber, decides that the stool and mic for her are not enough. She wants a keyboard. This is to hide behind. I'd need a serious 88 for her, she's taken over 18 years of lessons including a Honours 4 yr degree in Piano and one in Music Ed, and then teacher's college. Geez. I can't take the upright and the Roland/Rogers and Yamaha are both 10 years old. Sigh.

Maybe I won't give in. She had duets in mind, it's devious.

Right after our tribute to Johnny Cash we are doing some Rachmoninoff she want's me to do for 4 hands. If she grows 2 more. I gave up classical except for fakebook style years ago.

I can hear it now.

"you are not doing it right"

"Where?"

"At the start."

We didn't start yet.

"That's my point"

"OK"

"Don't agree with me if you don't understand"

"OK"

"To which part"

"All of it"

"Moron"

Note: as another poster said, he didn't say it, he heard someone else say it.
This did not work for the Chief who told me one day that I called a guy an F*n A$$.

I said I never saw the guy.

The Platoon Chief says 'I told the guy that Conley takes no BS and he was going to tell him that when he got there.'

Chief, "Is that right you were going to tell him?"

ME: "Never met the man, but if he's that then maybe, but not likely..."

PC: "See, Conley was going to tell him."

Chief: "So you told this guy Conley would tell him he was that, but you didn't say it?"

PC : "No, I wouldn't say that, but he would."

Me: "So I'm on 'trial' here, on charges, because a fire happened last night, and this guy who's the most eccentric lawyer in town and famous, was careless, and I would have, had I ever really met the man, called him a profanity based thing, according to last nights duty chief."

Chief: "Exactly, I don't want loose cannons like you on the street."

Me: "OK so I just got to work, and I think my wife is phoning me."

Chief "Why"

Me: "She's going to hear what the two of you are up to, and then she's going to call me an F'n Moron for working here!"

Chief "You can't say that!" YELLING

Me: "I didn't but my wife would!"

This ended with an actual retired cop hired to investigate, and he laughed so hard tears ran down his face at the interview with the Chief and the PC and Me and the Union Rep.

Sorry, I had to tell that one it was too good to pass up. I'm on overdrive!

John Conley
Musica est vita