It's Friday night. My wife and I were both preparing dinner. We were also babysitting our niece. She was getting a little restless so I whipped out our secret weapon - the dancing baby video. She totally loves this video. As expected, it calmed her down. But as with any child her age, we had to keep play this video over and over and over again. Unless you've been living under rock, you already know that this video has a baby dancing to the "Hooked on a Feeling" tune. My wife and I basically listened to this song while preparing dinner. After a while I got into the rhythm and started singing along at the top of my lungs. A funny thing happened not too long after that...
My wife said to me, "Can you just be quiet?"
I turned towards her and jokingly said, "Honey, I am singing for you."
I smiled and continued, "I'm just trying to be romantic."
My wife replied, "I'm tired. I'm in no mood to be romantic. I just want some peace and quiet."
This little exchange reminded me of something my mother said to me years ago - it was during a period of my life where I was bouncing from one girlfriend to another and my mother was disappointed that I refused to settle down with one.
My mother told me that if I want to keep a women, romantic little tricks don't work. I had to show them I'm mature, stable, reliable, and dependable. She told me dad used to serenade her all the time, it was quite romantic then....
but these days anything romantic amounts to fart (in chinese pin yin: xian zai lang man suan ge pi), I just consider his songs a passing breeze (in chinese pin yin: wo jiu dang ta de ge er bian feng)
How true my mom's words ring about a decade later.
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