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Badgered In Baltimore

Badgered In Baltimore

Dear Blabby,
     My bride of forty-five years has a cow whenever she suspects me of catting around.  She calls me a little weasel and a  snake in the grass.  I try to answer, but I'm ordered to clam up.  She's such a pest, asking me all the time about my sheepish grin.
     Blabby, it hurts when she calls me a leach and a sloth just because I choose not to work.  She complains that while she’s a busy as a bee all day long, I’m just a degenerate wolf, hitting on dumb bunnies every night.  She says I’m an ape and am as dumb as an ox.  She accuses me of treating our marriage like it was a lark.  She screams at me, calling me an ass and a cheating rat.
     Yesterday I really lost it.  I told her that I was not some dirty, mangy dog.  I called her a shrew and that I was a scapegoat in her kangaroo court.
      Blabby, why must she be so catty? She’s a prying old bloodhound.  Should I simply tell her to bug off?
     Just now my wife called me a slimy worm.  She says my behavior lately seems very fishy.  She accuses me of having a whale of a time while we’ve become as poor as church mice.  The worst part is that, in order to pay our rent, we’re forced to look for a loan shark.
     Blabby, I’m afraid my goose is cooked.  She’s threatening to stone me to death!  What am I to do?
                                                                                                                                                    Badgered in Baltimore

Dear Badgered,
     When the rocks start flying—Duck!

7/26/22

Copyright © Robert Gorelick

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