Dad does the supermarket shopping every week and has done since they got married. Most people think that�s weird or they think Dad is giving Mum a break for the week, I however think it�s totally normal. So anyway, Mum does the list up every week which of course Dad pays little attention too. He has a habit of buying things we definitely don�t need more of (Diet Coke, cat food and toilet paper spring to mind) and Mum has started to put it on the list with a big minus sign next to it. This week she made no mention of cat food at all and as she was putting away the groceries found a single can of cat food in a bag. Dad was still outside bringing some of the vegies in and so she stormed out to the front door and through the can out of the door and hit a tree just as Dad was approaching. She then locked the front door and gave him a �You have got to be kidding me� look before turning around and storming back to the kitchen. It�s quite comical when Mum goes off like that. Dad came up to the door where I was standing there laughing too hard to unlock the door for him. Turns out he�d bought that one can just to make her go off. It�s funny that after 31 years of marriage your parents can still act like teenagers. For the next half hour we were all firing one-liners at each other and I felt like I was in a sitcom or something. A thoroughly enjoyable Saturday afternoon.

We interrupt this entry for the following message: Finnish people are so cool. I�ve thought so since I was born. Mum has a penfriend in Varkaus and she�s been writing to her for over 30 years. This girl, Fivil signed my gbook over the weekend and I was delighted to discovered she was Finnish. Now I�m all excited about my planned trip to Scandinavia next year. It�s over a year away so it�s hard to keep excited but small things are keeping me up there. On The Great Outdoors the other night Ernie went to Rovaniemi to see Santa Claus. When I was at school everyone used to laugh at me when I said Santa Claus was real and that he lived in Finland. I think they didn�t believe me because they didn�t know what Finland was. Silly five-year olds :oP And on the news last night they gave the results to the Wife-Carrying contest in Finland. Estonia won again.

The prize is the wife�s weight in beer, cool huh?

Tyd Donkeyson

8 July 2002 - 9:28 am

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