Drabble by Kevin Fagan for June 10, 2022

Maybe she was bluffing maybe she wasn’t. Norm go with Ralph on this one. Don’t take a chance.

What’s the worst that would happen!

Now that the chips are down

Before she goes: “Say, since you’re going to the store anyway, go ahead and get a 2nd bag of chocolate chips, just in case.”

Or when she gets home: “You must have been mistaken. I looked while you were gone, and there was no bag of chocolate chips anywhere.”

I once chowed down on Nestle’s semisweet morsels before Mom put them in chocolate chip cookies.

Ralph is going by “Happy wife, happy life” in this case!

Ralph should’ve bought a bag and hid it for such emergencies.

Ever have to count 497 tranks before disposing of them? Not fun, AKA Navy.

It’s a trick. By mentioning the chocolate chips, they focus on that and ignore the cake she made for the book club meeting.

I know what you’re thinking. Did she count 250 chocolate chips or only 240. You gotta ask yourself, do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?

The wife (June?) does not have a job. Ralph’s job pays for all the groceries so he can eat what he wants. She is such a shrew.

Just eat some… Why should she be able to say you can’t?

Wives never joke, I know!

So eat them already! There are aisles of cookies in the store, just waiting for you!!!!!!!

In real life:

What a country we live in that we are all surrounded by food (big business), and at the same time we are surrounded with advise about how to deny ourselves that food (big business). I bet anything, and it might be a good steak, that without all those prohibitions to cause guilt there wouldn’t be an obesity problem which also is a big business…

Clearly he thought she was saying to not eat the cookies while standing in the pantry, eating them on the kitchen table is fine.

I don’t eat CHAHHHH-klit; I eat CHAWWWW-klit.

Is it a bag of chocolate chips or a bag of cookies? They are two different things.

Ah what’s she gonna do to you Ralph? I’d be annoyed if my spouse spoke to me like I was a damn kid, and I’d certainly never talk down to my husband like that!

Just eat them. You paid for them, and she isn’t the boss of you.