<p>Cash.</p>
<p>These suggested gifts suck.</p>
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AH! But at least you spelled it correctly! ;)</p>
<p>A Coach purse works too 
save the smelly stuff and ixnay on the wooden gifts…ewwww.</p>
<p><long low=“” whistle=“”> Married guys gelded? Rolling pins? <second long=“” low=“” whistle=“”></second></long></p>
<p>Being married is a mutual never-ending collaboration, my second-most favorite after being a parent, though I’m traditional enough to think the latter should follow the former.</p>
<p>the one rule of thumb I use for b’day and v’tines day gifts is to avoid anything that plugs in at all costs. Sometimes you can slide on the rule at Christmas though.</p>
<p>Sorry about the spelling Berurah. You seem to assume I’m a knuckle-dragging male chauvanist. But if you read the posts, you’ll see that I WAS buying the women who work in my unit Swiss Army knives and the like, until THEY made it clear they wanted the girly stuff. And I’m not a barefoot-and-pregnant type…I just don’t surrender the entire decision-making thing to the wife. For example, when a couple is buying furniture, the salespeople always play to the woman, as if she alone makes the decision, and the guy is just along to carry her coat. I just like to be part of the collaborative decision, that’s all. Nothing quite as obnoxious or dramatic as you probably want to imagine. OK? So can we call a truce? Part of the disconnect between you and the women I work with is that they are all high school graduates, whereas you apparently didn’t get that far.</p>
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So, I’m IMAGINING the obnoxiousness in the following statements? 
Or, perhaps my 6th-grade ejukashun simply didn’t allow me to properly decipher your sesquipedalian blather :rolleyes: :
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<p>It strikes me that if you were a year or two younger, you might express these sentiments more directly with the simple snapping of a bra strap. Then, I’d know you <em>really</em> liked me! :o </p>
<p>I shall, however, agree to a truce! :)</p>
<p>~berurah
p.s. Regarding this:
Just how many people HAVE told you this??? </p>
<p>Sheesh, Berurah - stop picking on TourGuide. Swiss knives are nice gift idea. </p>
<p>It’s all we men can do to have a male-only thread without all you babes prowling about trying to pull our Man Cards.</p>
<p>[Man</a> Card](<a href=“http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=man+card]Man”>Urban Dictionary: Man Card)</p>
<p>[Man</a> Card Violation](<a href=“http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=man+card+violation]Man”>Urban Dictionary: man card violation)</p>
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Hey, nothin’ wrong with a little CC civil disobedience! And anyway, somethin’ tells me TG’s Man Card hand is tapped already!!! :eek:</p>
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<p>Sorry, I don’t buy it, Berurah. The Belle of ___ MUST have some time for soaking and probably has her kids well enough in hand to be able to sneak off for some personal R&R at times [;)]</p>
<p>HEY!!! Careful with that frying pan!!! Somebody could get hurt!!</p>
<p>Happy anniversary</p>
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Dammit, DOS, didja HAVE to trash my busy mom routine!!??!!?? I really had ‘em goin’ there! However, you are <em>most</em> correct about the kidlets…they do whatever it takes to give their mama a break sometimes! :D</p>
<p>~berurah
p.s. thx for the anniv. wishes!</p>