Before we begin our story, a word on why it is important. If you are not married you can learn from the experiences of someone who is and then try to learn from their mistakes so that you don't "follow in their footsteps". If you are married you can read this and then understand that there are other men out there that make mistakes just like you do and you can empathize with the author.
We had tacos for lunch.
I helped Pam with the dishes afterwards. However I did not receive “brownie points”. And this is too bad and maybe a travesty of justice. Or maybe not. You decide.
I am sure you are very curious to know what happened and well you should be. Good for you!
We had finished eating tacos. Pam was cleaning the dishes so that she could put those clean dishes in the dishwasher so it could re-clean them some more. I was looking at an important YouTube video of a cat playing the piano.
Suddenly, and with our warning, I spotted a dirty dish that was sitting on the counter. From her vantage point she could not see this dirty dish. I picked it up and tried to hand it to her but she was too busy, so I said, “Here Pam”, to get her attention.
She took the dish. It was unceremonious. One could say it was curt, or abrupt. Or even brusque. (I don’t really know what brusque means, but any word with a “Q” in it is a good word.)
Then I said, “I helped with the dishes”.
Apparently this was a mistake. I wasn’t able to see it beforehand, but looking back on it now I can see it was a mistake. And I had help seeing it was a mistake which makes it all the more clear that it was certainly a mistake.
Apparently to “help” you have to do more that sit on your chair while a cat is playing the piano on your phone and say “here”.
So now I know and I’ll do better next time.
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