Old Married Couple

So Friday night was a bust. Ended up going with Dave and Paul to Comedy Works after all. While waiting in the never-moving line to get in, we had cocktails. This was in addition to the shots Paul and Dave had, and the cocktail I had at the Snakepit. We finally get in to be seated and they ask smoking or non-smoking.

After having spent 45 minutes in line without a smoke, I couldn't fathom sitting through another 2 hours without a smoke. So I told them smoking. Big mistake.

Dave immediately began to bitch and moan. We get seated in the back with a pretty decent view, but yah, it was more smoky than I even thought it would be. Dave goes 'I'M NOT HAPPY' and began pouting like a little kid. So I offer to stay in smoking and they can move. He doesn't say a word, just sits there fuming.

So now I am beginning to get angry at him for being such a bitch about it. Meanwhile, the area is getting worse as more people fill in. I tell him, if we're going to move we have to do it now before non-smoking fills up. He still doesn't say anything, or move. Just sitting and fuming.

Don't know what happened but I flipped, got up, and said 'F-ck This! I'm outta here' and stormed out. That was dumb as I got outside and realized my coat and gloves were in Dave's car and it was pretty brisk outside.

Finally I get home, take a shower and go to bed not really that upset about the whole thing. I didn't want to go out in the first place anyway so it was fine by me to be to bed early. At no point did Dave call or text me to bitch me out or apologize.

I wake up the next morning and my phone is beeping. I had 3 text messages between 1 and 230 AM. From Dave. First two were the typical, 'why you being such a bitch'. But the third one was a complaint of having to 'drive my ass all around town all the time'. WTF? I never ask Dave to take me anywhere. The only time I get a ride with him is when we're going somewhere together. Needless to say, that kind of pissed me off. I wasn't mad about the night before, but now I was about that text.

So I leave him a short, non-angry voicemail asking when I am going to get my coat back. It was supposed to continue to snow and be cold this weekend so I needed it.

I go to the mall to run errands and pick up a few things. No call. I get home and make something to eat and watch the boob tube. No call. Finally, it's like 930 and I decide to turn in early.

I get out of the shower, take my sleep meds and pop in a movie. My phone beeps. I missed a call while in the shower. It was Dave; no voicemail. I am starting to feel my meds so I just ignore it and go to bed.

Around 1130, as I am on the verge of falling asleep, he calls. I shouldn't have picked up. Half awake, and heavily sedated, we get in to a major 2 hour fight. Words were thrown, tears were shed, kids were scared. Finally, it works itself out and the issue is resolved. BFF again.

I wake up this morning, and I had called Julie, Sara and Reed at some point last night. I have no idea what messages I left or what, nor why I even called them. I must have been really sedated. I shouldn't have answered his call, but at least we resolved our tiff. All this from a silly dispute over smoking or non-smoking. Dave and I are such an old married couple, it's almost kind of funny in a way.