Dear Dr. Jim
Sometimes The Hub, my husband, is a clunce. He really pulled my string yesterday.
I was telling him of a new title his favorite author had released. The title was "Murder in Monterey" and it seems he had already known of it.
So I offered to pick up a copy for him in the afternoon when I was out. He thanked me and told me that he would really enjoy reading of his favorite detective's adventures in Alabama, as he himself had always wanted to visit there.
When I said it was in Monterey, Monterey California, he began arguing with me and saying he had seen a picture of the cover and it was Montgomery.
I couldn't convince him that I was right and that has ruined our day. I even told him to his face that he was being a clunce.
Dr. Jim, if you could get him to see my side I'd really appreciate your efforts. Thank you.
"Generally Right" in Torrance
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Dear Ms. Right
Oh my goodness, Ms. Right, of course you were right again here. That, though, should not have been the issue.
You are NAUGHTY. Naughty to The Hub. When The Man is wrong tell him so, nicely. But just once, then let it ride.
He'll find out when you get him the book and he reads for himself. Then, if you haven't pushed the issue too hard and if you don't keep rubbing it in, he MIGHT apologize.
Not a big deal so don't you make it one. That is my Dr. Jim advice for the moment.
BTW there may have been a name problem here unless you have made up a new word. Clunce.
That may be true, you were thinking of two names, Clutz and Dunce. Each has its own meaning, G o o g l e them as you might then decide you didn't want to use either one.
BTW, I have a friend who invented a new word. I helped her to enter it into the online Urban Dictionary ( https://www.urbandictionary.com ).
Your word, 'Clunce', is not there as of now. You may wish to enter it with a definition of your choice.
I hope this helped. If you think I was too hard on you here please forgive me. (But I think I WAS RIGHT this time.)
Dr. Jim in Fulshear/Katy
p.s. "Pulling ones string" generally has the illusion of pulling a leash, such as a leash attached to a dog's collar.
"Pulling one's 'chain' on the other hand gets one riled up when the stopper is pulled out, as the water in a sink as it swirls going down into the drain.
Just saying, Dr. Jim
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4 comments:
fun blog:)
Love this advice.
I enjoy read about "right" between husband and wife....fun...
Maybe it was Putz (and in our old friend, Putz, who inexplicably dropped out of sight years ago) rather than klutz that played an element in the confusion. I'm from Mississippi (originally), so I know that would be more interested in a book set in Alabama than in California--not to mention Mexico, which also contains a town named Monterey--although I can't see that this observation (scintillating though it is) has any bearing whatsoever on her question or your answer. One more thought...when she wrote that she called him a clunce, might she not have hit the wrong key and had intended to say that she had called him a clounce, a word that wouldn't have been entirely appropriate (unless he was jumping up and down), but that is, at least in the Urban Dictionary?
"He'll find out when you get him the book and he reads for himself. Then, if you haven't pushed the issue too hard and if you don't keep rubbing it in, he MIGHT apologize."
Then again, he might simply hate her to the core for having exceeded the lifetime allowable maximum for husband correcting.
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