Re: [Paddlewise] wing paddle

----- Original Message -----

> " now if I can just figure out how to sneak that carbon-fiber
state-of-the-art
> surf-ski I'm looking  at into my back yard to go along with my dandy
paddle
> without wifey noticing...."
> you just pay every month like a dutiful ox
> that you are treading out the grain to the benefit of the Philistines with
which
> we live.

"Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain" (Deuteronomy 25:4)
Am I asking so much?  Just a little boat to paddle around?  A few hours
of peace to do it?  Yeah, I'll pull the weeds, paint the pourch, give me the
list, but grant me one little space of my own in this life.

"Philistine" might be a bit strong but as long as we're using Biblical
references
try the term "quarrelsome wife" in Proverbs 19:13, 21:9, 21:19, 25:24 and
27:15

"What surf-ski?"....."Oh *that* surf-ski......um, ....it's been
> out here for a while now......funny you never noticed it before....."
(never
> make eye contact)
>     This works nicely for the first half dozen kayaks......but will
eventually
> need to be upgraded to a regular percentage/bribe system.   Start about 5%
and
> work your way up to 15% at the absolute worst case........   This system
cuts
> through the usual subterfuge as you simply answer her query......."Oh, is
that a
> new kayak?"........."How 'bout a bribe?"
>

I have exceeded the half-dozen point and find it more and more difficult.
The problem is, I believe, universal.  I recently purchased a surf-ski from
a gentleman and the biggest problem wasn't money, it was timing. How
to get it from his garage, where it was hidden under boxes, to my house
while both spouses were absent.  I am now trying to reduce my harem
(fleet) and find myself negotiating via secret Hotmail accounts so the
buyer's wife remains a minus-tide state of awareness.

This is a social problem that must be addressed.  In the SF Bay are
there is even a rowing club called the "Bay Blades".  You guessed it.....
a rowing club for gay males.  And what do we married paddlers have?
Nothing, zip, nada.........How can this be corrected?


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