"You irritate me!"
"You irritate ME!"
This is a sometimes exchange between me and Jodi.
"Please adopt a less marital tone," I say, quoting Glen Close's character from Dangerous Liaisons.
"It's like we are married," Jodi snaps back.
"Yeah," I agree. " We fight over money and we fight over the children.
The two dogs look up sitting on the slobbery kitchen floor, waiting for treats. Rex has just had a drink from the blue glass Corningware mixing bowl (the large one from the set of three) and excess water drips from his jowls like someone spilled a pitcher of water on the floor. Hyperbole is not lost on this dog.
"Only we don't have sex," Jodi says.
"But that is just like a married couple."
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