Today while we were emptying the dishwasher I was being particularly rough on Bob. You see we had a very good system every morning and he says since I cook meals, do all the errands, pay the bills, drive the car, help him and do 100 other things he says for him. So he insists that he wants to empty the dishwasher. Lately, the last couple days, I've gotten up in the morning and the dishwasher hasn't been emptied and I do it.
So I asked him why he's changing his schedule and he tells me that he's afraid he's going to wake me up in the morning. I have assured him several times that I cannot hear the dishwasher from the basement where I sleep but he still thinks it's a problem as I begin to assure him again it was not a problem I was going about telling him in a mean way. When I realized what I was doing, I kind of smiled at him and began to sing "I got a woman mean as she can be. Sometimes I think she's almost mean to me." His sweet old eyes got huge and he looked me right in the face and I began to sing and laugh and then I said I'm going to play that song for you. I turned on my iPhone, Roy Orbison Mean woman blues, and we danced and touched and swayed and as he began to kiss me we danced the twist and held each other tight as he told me how beautiful I was and how special I am. It was really wonderful. I love him so much.
