Well if that's not sin, eh?

Today i brought my husband some lunch and later i went to McDonalds to get an iced coffee. I decided to drink my iced coffee in the store so i could read my magazine. I was seated near two Mennonite women who turned out to be really rather amusing. They were talking about the "sudden" "large amount" of women who do not do as their husband asks of them in Winkler. It was honestly very hard to not throw my two-cents into this conversation. Apparently, according to these women, "our husbands were made to be superior to us" and "to not do as things has always been is surely a sin." And my personal favorite:"Women complain that their husbands are abusing them, but women on their own are unable to know the true way to the Lord. Our husbands are just gently leading us to salvation." Honorary mention: "some women just need a firm hand." (I took direct quotes...I wrote them all over my tray liner) I kept looking at them and laughing in a "holy crap you are crazy" sort of way. I think I love this town. Without these people, would I really have something to write about? Pretty soon i will have enough for a book! What kind of woman would ever think that abuse is a "gentle" path to salvation? If that is the route I have to take, seriously....Fuck that! I love the assumption that women are too feeble-minded to figure things like their own spiritual lives.I love it when people assume that I am incapable of anything above popping out children, cooking and cleaning. To be a woman with a mind of your own is a serious problem to some people in this town. Good thinking though! If the women in this town started to think for themselves and lived up to their potential there is no way that half of the crap that goes on in this town would continue!

New Friends

So, there is this guy that comes door to door frequently to ask if he can clean out our gutters. We don't allow him to for several reasons. 1. my husband works in a hardware store and sees firsthand the real cost of allowing him to touch anything in your house... generally it is about double the price after you fix what he has destroyed. 2. he charges too much. 3. he threatened to kill our neighbor's dog. 4. he strikes me as a little inbred. 5. he talks to me like I am some kind of little house frau who cannot hold a conversation and cannot make decisions on my own house. 6. we do our own work on our house. Well, a few days ago he came back. First, he rang our doorbell 6 times in a row...since he is not 5 years old, I can only assume that this is where the inbreeding comes in. I opened the door and he very abruptly asked to speak to the "man of the house"... so I asked him what it is he wanted. he said..."I dont have time for this, let me speak to a man"... If you know ANYTHING about me, you would know that this is NOT a wise thing to say to me if you want to keep your package attached. so I glared at him, told him to fuck off and slammed the door in his face. So he started ringing the doorbell again...over and over. So I answered the door again...this time holding a hammer. he was very abrupt again and said.."Go get your husband now". I then proceeded to tell him that if he doesn't change his attitude that he is not welcome on our property. he then said, "fine, I just want to know if I can clean our your gutters for 30.00." Now, I want to know if this was clear enough.... My response was that we will "NEVER! EVER! EVER! EVER! have any work for him".... somehow I believe that this will get confused in his inbred little brain as meaning he should come back next week. Sadly, he is one of the more functioning Winkler residents!