The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for September 23, 2022

Is it too obvious to say that she needs a long time to at least make herself passable, or am I too ungenerous with her?

Just kidding: Gladys is gorgeous ….. for her age.

The party’s over.

What is it with people that can’t be ready on time? My wife is like that.

When the lightning starts, run for it, that means the mother in law is visiting.

maybe the party is what needs to be delayed… that could be her mission or agenda or whatever it’s suppose to be called.

My wife feels that if you are supposed to be someplace at a given time you should be there about 5 minutes early, to be late, in her opinion, is rude. I agree with her.

Somehow most women think it is better to be the last ones to arrive at a party then to be the first to arrive at a party. Which is alright by me since I am not great at telling jokes or even much of an idle conversation starter.

Or for a basketball game to end

Or the 2 minutes of a pro football game.

2 minute warning in football.

Or, a lightning soccer delay. I had to call one of those, once. We waited 30 minutes and played the rest of the match on a wet field.

Some people need to start getting ready the day before.

Brutus, that is a funny line!

She learned from Mike Hargrove…

A nod to Mike Hargrove, an Indians legend….

It never hurts to be fashionably late to a party Brutus. Even Mike Hargrove knew that.

I hate to say this, but Gladys would probably not do that to me too many times. I would leave at the agreed upon time when the time came. I would let her find her own way to wherever we would be going. Or I would take off my hat, coat, shoes, and sit down and read a book and say I assumed she changed her mind and will be staying home. Complaining, asking, begging and any other normal request does not usually work with people who are perpetually late. It’s often a passive-aggressive behavior.

Just like my grandmother (God rest her soul) chronically late to the very end.

It’s just the opposite in our household. I sit around twiddling my thumbs while my husband is still getting ready.

Having been married 42 years and having 3 daughters I have spent a major portion of my life waiting on women. No further comment

Trust me. She’s in a very big club. However, you better never keep her waiting….

This is why you always tell her you have to be there 30 minutes before you actually do. And hope she never catches on to you.

Which is longer, five minutes for a woman getting ready, or five minutes in a football game that is about over?

I see Brutus is wearing a coat. To those of us in the Southwest, that makes him a winner. It just missed the record for most 100° days in San Antonio today, and rain is something we’d gladly celebrate. Way to go, Brutus. We’re very jealous of you.

So, what’s the alternate programming during the rain delay? ;-)