CHRIST IN WINTER:
Reflections on Faith [and, occasionally totally unrelated musings and
mutterings] for the Years of Winter
FIRE THE COACH
Wives need something to
complain about. That is a major part of their job. If your husband is perfect,
though, or at least “going on to perfection,” you can’t do your job.
Consequently, while I watch football games on the TV in our living room, Helen
does things on her computer, so she’ll have stuff to complain about. Computers are
a wonderful source of complaints.
Our joint
football/computer living room is the reason Helen is one of the few persons
outside the SEC and ESPN who cares about the recent firing of the LSU football
coach, because between her mutterings about the computer, she occasionally
hears something from the TV.
Thus a year or so ago, she
suddenly shouted at the TV, “FEWER miles, not less miles.” It really bothers
her when folks on TV get the words for volume and number mixed up.
I said, “But, Honey, the
coach’s name is Les Miles.”
“Well,” she retorted, “they
should have named him Fewer.”
So she is quite pleased
that she won’t have to overhear about Les Miles anymore. Unless he gets hired
at Purdue. That will be a real problem.
JRMcF
I tweet as yooper1721.
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