This Highfaluting Marriage

He Said She Said – April 2012 This Highfaluting Marriage

He Said

Someone once told me to marry above my raising.
I was not sure what that meant then but I am starting
to see what it means now. It means marry someone prettier,
richer, and smarter than me. I think with you
I have done just that. I don’t think a day goes
by when I am not reminded that I have done something else
wrong, or it is not proper, or something just plain gets on
your last nerve.

I don’t know how many nerves you have in your body, but
I am sure that we are getting close to the end in this first
year of marriage. By the time we die you will be void of
any nerves at all and will be working on just plain common sense.

The latest snafu for me is going out to a restaurant with
you and being told as we left the premises that I was the only
person you had ever met in your life that eats fish with his
hands. We are not talking about boiled fish. We are not talking
scallops and we are not talking about baked fish covered with
all that red stuff.

We are talking the all-American deliciously fried fish and chips.
As I explained to you , cutting into a battered fried piece of
fish with a two inch crust is just going to make that crust
come apart and fling itself all over the plate. You are left
with just a piece of white fish with no coating. Who can eat that?

I did a little experiment the next day. I went to a local fast food
fish place and there were a total of 10 tables with couples eating
fish. Nine out of the ten tables had customers picking up their fried
fish and eating it with their hands. So much for highfaluting. As I
told you before, a piece of fried fish is like a piece of fried
chicken. How many people do you see using a knife and fork to eat a
chicken leg?

She Said

So you think you married above your raising? That must
be a southern phrase; you know all of my relatives are from
the north and I'm not used to that one. Let me guess... if you
marry someone equal to you,that means you can eat
with your fingers, wipe your mouth with your shirt sleeve,
put your elbows on the table, and slurp your soup?

Honestly, I wasn't criticizing you when you were eating
FRIED fish with your fingers...I just never saw that before.
Fish and chicken are two different foods to me and there is a
bone to hold on to with chicken but fish bones don't offer much
support. As far as getting on my last nerve goes: if it hasn't
happened in 50 years, it probably isn't going to. Funny thing
about your little experiment. You probably went to a fast food
fish establishment at lunch time when people were hurrying
to get back to work. The EVENING I said something to you
about eating with your fingers, we were at a seafood restaurant
just a step above your lunch time delight. But just this once,
I'll let it go.You explained the part about the breading on
the fish and how much damage your fork would do to it and I
wouldn't spoil your fun for all of the fish in the ocean!!!