" COMMERCIALS "

DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS LATELY ABOUT MIKE'S INFATUATION WITH COMMERCIALS, BUT BOY DOES HE HAVE A BAD CASE OF IT.  LAST NIGHT I PUT FOOTBALL ON FOR HIM TO WATCH (HE HAS ALWAYS LOVED ANY GAME WITH A BALL IN IT).  WHEN HE CAME TO BED, I ASKED HIM "WHO WON".  "WHO WON WHAT" HE SAYS.  I REPLY "THE GAME".  HE SAID HE WASN'T WATCHING THAT, HE WAS WATCHING SOME OTHER SHOW-ALL ABOUT PAIN. HE SAID THIS GUY SAID HE HAS THIS NEW DRINK THAT WILL TAKE AWAY ALL YOUR ACHES AND PAINS, BUT YOU HAVE TO DRINK IT EVERY DAY.  I JOKINGLY REPLIED "YES HONEY-THAT IS SO HE CAN AFFORD TO MAKE HIS MERCEDES CAR PAYMENTS".  NOT DETERRED, MIKE CONTINUES. "NO REALLY, HE EVEN MENTIONED FIBROMYALGIA"!! MIKE CAN NOT REMEMBER THAT I HAVE LEUKEMIA, OR THAT I HAVE SUFFERED WITH BACK PROBLEMS FOR 20 YEARS, BUT HE FOR SOME REASON ALWAYS REMEMBERS THAT WORD.  ANY HOW, HE SAID "THE GUY USE TO HAVE THAT PROBLEM, AND THAT IS WHY HE INVENTED THIS STUFF". I SAID "IT REMINDS ME OF THE OLD DAYS WHEN SOME GUY IN A HORSE AND BUGGY WOULD GO FROM TOWN TO TOWN PEDDLING  AN ELIXIR THAT WAS SUPPOSE TO CURE ALL SORTS OF ILLS, BUT HE WAS JUST MAKING A BUCK OFF INNOCENT PEOPLE IN PAIN". AGAIN, UNDETERRED,  MIKE SWITCHED THE SUBJECT TO DEAN MARTIN.  HE SAID  "THEN, I WAS WATCHING THIS FUNNY SHOW WITH DEAN MARTIN, AND THEY SAID YOU HAVE TO BUY IT NOW BECAUSE IT WON'T BE AVAILABLE FOR VERY MUCH LONGER"  SO I ASK HIM "WHAT IS IT  THAT YOU NEED TO BUY"?, AND HE SAID "I GUESS DEAN MARTIN".
I EXPLAINED THAT WHAT THEY MOST LIKELY WERE SELLING WERE ALL OF THE OLD CD'S FROM HIS T,V, SHOWS.  SO HE SAID WELL THEY WERE FUNNY, SO WE SHOULD BUY THEM.  I TOLD HIM WE ALREADY HAD THEM, SO THEN HE  SAID  "WE SHOULD WATCH THEM  TOMORROW"-BUT I FEEL SURE HE WILL HAVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE WHOLE CONVERSATION BY THE MORNING.  IF NOT-I TOO LOVE THOSE OLD DEAN MARTIN SHOWS, SO I'LL BE HAPPY TO WATCH THEM WITH HIM.  OH ONE MORE THING THAT I FOUND TO BE PRETTY FUNNY YESTERDAY  (BUT MY FRIEND GAIL WILL NOT).  MY FRIEND GAIL CAME OVER YESTERDAY FOR A VISIT, WITH A CHILD HOOD FRIEND OF OURS (RUTH) WHO HAPPENS TO BE JUST TWO YEARS YOUNGER THAN ME, AND MAYBE FIVE YEARS YOUNGER THAN GAIL.  AFTER THEY LEFT, MIKE WANTED TO KNOW IF RUTH WAS GAIL'S DAUGHTER!!!  TOO FUNNY!!  I REMINDED MIKE THAT RUTH WAS JUST A GOOD FRIEND, AS GAIL HAS NO CHILDREN, AND HAD NEVER MARRIED.   LATER HE ASKED AGAIN, "WHAT IS RUTH TO GAIL"? "FRIENDS HONEY, JUST GOOD FRIENDS". AND THAT MY FRIENDS IS ANOTHER DAY WITH MIKE. OH LEST I FORGET, HE DID PAY ME THE HIGHEST COMPLIMENT HE HAS EVER GIVEN ME.  RUTH AND HER HUSBAND WERE MARRIED AS LONG AS MIKE AND I-WE WERE EVEN MARRIED IN THE SAME MONTH AND THE SAME YEAR.  WELL, MIKE OUT OF NO WHERE SAID THAT WAS THE BEST THING HE HAD EVER DONE!! WOW!!  IF ONLY HE WOULD HAVE PAID ME SOME OF THESE NICE COMPLIMENTS DURING OUR 41 YEARS OF MARRIAGE-BETTER LATE THAN NEVER I GUESS. HAVE A BLESSED DAY AND PLEASE DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF-JUST ME