Retirement Fun
My bride and I went to the Claim Jumper last night to celebrate Mary Hale's 50th birthday...Mary didn't know about the surprise party and she thought no one remembered her birthday so she invited some of the staff to her house for drinks after work just to celebrate...She didn't know that the staff had been planning this get together for a few weeks...(time to go to plan B). The staff had to think fast so everyone except two or three of them said they had something else to do and would come if they could...The ones who went to her house said they would wait around for a little while and then when no one else was showing they would say to her "hey, lets not wait for anyone else...Why don't we go to the Claim Jumper for dinner?"...Of course Mary readily agreed.
We showed up about 5:15 and got a parking space right in front of the restaurant in full view of everyone entering the place...I didn't think about my ridiculous looking car and everyone who came in after we did said "we knew you were here". By then it was too late to park somewhere else.
As luck would have it Mary didn't even see the car but as soon as she came into the dining area she spotted me and thought "what's Elmer doing here?". By then everyone yelled "Happy Birthday" and the party was on.
The company was excellent, everyone was cordial and the Tri-tip steak was disappointing (the wine helped assuage the disappointment). After dinner my bride went to another table to talk with her former principal and Georgeann ( one of the teachers ) asked me about my retirement plans and what I planned to do this summer when Marlen was retired...Was I planning to spend any time with her? "Of course", I replied, " I hope to spend a lot of time with her... I'm going to be chasing her around the house every morning and hopefully I'll be fast enough to catch her so that the next time you see her she'll be a shadow of her former self". The look on her face was priceless.
Tonight we were in the kitchen making dinner together and I said to Marlen "so, how was your day"? She replied, "Well, it was OK except that I had to spend my lunch hour listening to everyone tell me how you were going to chase me around until I became a shadow of my former self"....OOPS!!!
I hope to do better tomorrow.
We showed up about 5:15 and got a parking space right in front of the restaurant in full view of everyone entering the place...I didn't think about my ridiculous looking car and everyone who came in after we did said "we knew you were here". By then it was too late to park somewhere else.
As luck would have it Mary didn't even see the car but as soon as she came into the dining area she spotted me and thought "what's Elmer doing here?". By then everyone yelled "Happy Birthday" and the party was on.
The company was excellent, everyone was cordial and the Tri-tip steak was disappointing (the wine helped assuage the disappointment). After dinner my bride went to another table to talk with her former principal and Georgeann ( one of the teachers ) asked me about my retirement plans and what I planned to do this summer when Marlen was retired...Was I planning to spend any time with her? "Of course", I replied, " I hope to spend a lot of time with her... I'm going to be chasing her around the house every morning and hopefully I'll be fast enough to catch her so that the next time you see her she'll be a shadow of her former self". The look on her face was priceless.
Tonight we were in the kitchen making dinner together and I said to Marlen "so, how was your day"? She replied, "Well, it was OK except that I had to spend my lunch hour listening to everyone tell me how you were going to chase me around until I became a shadow of my former self"....OOPS!!!
I hope to do better tomorrow.
posted by Dad Merk at 8:33 PM
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Dad...your nuts! Poor mom! I love you.
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