For 8 years when I had a Fire Department 'office' job, I met my wife downtown everyday after work, we were 3 blocks apart. I got off at 5 which meant 4:30 LOL, plus 4 or earlier on Fridays. (But I was on call every 4th week 24/7). My wife worked until 4:30 but she's a department manager of a real business. She usually got out at 5:30 or 6 or 6:30 or later. At first no cell phones. For two weeks I waited in the car in front of her office. Then I found a pub with free parking underground if you had a beer. 20 minutes late 1 beer. 40 minutes late 2 beers. When she showed up at the pub she'd grab a 1/2 pint, and she had to pay my tab for being late. The paying part was supposed to be incentive to come faster. NOT.

The kicker was my wife is not a very good cook. If she ever had to do it she could, but we've been married 26 years and when we get home she sits and watches TV and I cooked. And set the table. And gave her a glass of wine.

Then I retired and got all the other jobs, and I still drive downtown and wait for her, and still have a beer, down to one...or two...she can drive.

It's 9:30 she's left for work at 7:00am and I've not started cleaning yet. But our band plays a concert tonight and I have to polish our horns and I have a singing part...through a 140 year old fireman's trumpet.

I wonder where the silver polish is.....??

John Conley
Musica est vita