{"id":3431,"date":"2015-11-13T05:30:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T15:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=3431"},"modified":"2015-11-13T05:58:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T15:58:35","slug":"time-to-pay-the-piper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=3431","title":{"rendered":"Time to pay the piper"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s crisis time at Harrington Manor.<\/p>\n

We are 9 days from our yearly pilgrimage to the family Thanksgiving roundup on the mainland.<\/p>\n

Followed by visiting my money in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Maybe I’ll leave some more to keep it company.
\nAgain.<\/p>\n

I’d rather leave it here but some anal-retentive political types feel it would damage my ability to live a wholesome and upstanding life.<\/p>\n

\"lottery_tix\"<\/a>It’s too late for that but I have hope some form of Vegas love will still happen here.<\/p>\n

How to you think they’ll pay for that massive over-budget rail system down the road?<\/p>\n

Yup.
\nLottery!<\/p>\n

You wait and see.<\/p>\n

Anyway, back to my imbroglio.<\/p>\n

The wife is on one of her cleaning binges while balancing her obsessive need to pack a week in advance.<\/p>\n

She’s looking at the dozen suitcases stashed in the back room – trying to decide what color she wants this time.<\/p>\n

In the past she has solved this problem by buying new ones.
\nThis year she apparently is trying to do things a different way.<\/p>\n

Use what you got.
\nGreat concept.<\/p>\n

\"purple<\/a>Being married for what seems like forever, I’ve learned how to handle this.<\/p>\n

Stay out-of-the-way.<\/p>\n

And when she comes to say, “How about the purple one with pink polka dots?”…<\/p>\n

I just say, “Sounds good.”<\/p>\n

\"megabucks<\/a>I’ve given up on hitting the mega-bucks even though *someone* has to win it so why not me?<\/p>\n

The problem with that bit of optimism is *someone* always seems to do it a couple of days before we arrive.<\/p>\n

The casinos dial the slots back to “no pay” and I start paying for their new room renovations.<\/p>\n

Hope springs eternal.<\/p>\n

Come to think of it – this is Friday the 13th.
\nYipes, no wonder I’m grumpy.<\/p>\n

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