Feedback from my column about the amusing things my husband says was unanimous with readers asking for another installment.
After reading it, our pastor said that he felt a sermon title coming on “God. Does. Not. Rapture. Zucchini.”
I’m eagerly waiting for that one!
I’ve been collecting Derek’s sometimes purposely but usually unintentionally funny sayings for years and saving them under the hashtag #thingsmyhusbandsays.
Here’s your second helping.
He’s been talking in his sleep
• One night I got in bed after Derek had turned in early.
“Did you see that?” he asked, as I slipped between the sheets.
“What?”
“The screen just jumped!”
“What screen?”
“The TV screen.”
“You’re not watching TV. You’re sleeping,” I said.
“Whatever,” he mumbled. “But the screen just jumped.”
• At 5:30 one morning, Derek woke me up saying, “Hi! How are ya doing?”
And even though I knew he was talking in his sleep I answered, “I’m fine, how are you?”
“Wha? Huh?” he replied.
“You asked me how I was, so I said I was fine.”
“But I was talking to you on the phone in my dream. You were having car trouble. Now I won’t know which car it is, and I won’t be able to help you!”
“Go back to sleep and I’ll call you again,” I said.
Derekisms
• “Well, that’s going to throw a wrench into his monkey.”
• “Did you see that? The guys on that porch are playing guitars and Mandalorians!” (Pretty sure he meant mandolins.)
• “I tend toward goodism.”
• After a week of vacation, I wasn’t sure I remembered how to do my job. “Don’t worry, it’s just like falling off a bicycle,” Derek said.
• On my way to the grocery store, I called to ask if there was anything he wanted me to pick up.
“Yeah, get a buttermilk squash.
“You mean Butternut?
“Whatever,” he said. “Buttermilk is probably easier to cook.”
• When venting about a business contact who’s difficult to communicate with Derek said, “It’s like my texts go in one eye and out the other!”
The world according to Derek
• In the Costco parking lot on a wintery evening, he fumbled through his vest and pants pockets getting more frustrated by the second.
“I can’t find my car keys! Where are my keys!?”
I slid my hand into his sweatshirt pocket and pulled out the keys.
“CLOTHES HAVE TOO MANY DAMN POCKETS,” he bellowed. “TOO MANY POCKETS!”
• A woman brought two dogs into the movie theater in a baby stroller adorned with pink ruffles. “And that there is why she’s single,” Derek said.
• “I may be over 50, but I’m just saying when the zombie apocalypse comes, I’m totally going to outlast the man-bun, high-water pants dudes.”
• Hval family dinner conversation:
Sam: I’ve got chest hair now and I don’t like it.
Derek: You’ve got Chet’s hair?
Sam: CHEST hair. I’ve got CHEST hair!
Derek: Big deal. I’ve had chest hair since I was 5. Heck, Thor’s (our cat) had chest hair since birth.
Married life
• I was in the kitchen baking while Derek searched Netflix. He settled on a foreign language film.
Me: I didn’t know you spoke Spanish.
Him: I don’t. It’s Japanese. (He doesn’t speak Japanese, either.)
• When my husband hurt his back, I offered to tie his shoes.
Dismayed, he looked down at my handiwork.
“You tied double knots? What do you think I am, a little kid?”
“I always tie my tennis shoes with double knots,” I explained.
He shook his head.
“Great. Now, everyone’s gonna know my wife tied my shoes.”
• I bemoaned the lack of time to get my eyebrows waxed.
“I’ll do them for you,” Derek offered.
I raised my bushy brows.
“I don’t know if I trust you with hot wax.”
“Wax?” he said. “I was going to use duct tape.”
• Him: How come you’re doing laundry on a Wednesday?
Me: I dunno, but for some reason I was running out of underwear.
Him: Me too! That’s why I’ve been wearing yours.
• Derek had a headache the other day, so I told him to look in the cupboard for the migraine relief pills. Later, I asked him how he was feeling.
“Great!” he said. “That Midol works wonders!”
“What?” I replied. “I said take migraine tablets.”
“You said, ‘Look for the bottle with a ‘M’ on it,’ and I did!”
Bottom line? He felt better and was a lot less moody!
How could I not be crazy about Derek? He’s not only a wonderful husband and a great provider for our household, he’s also an endless source of column fodder.
As my friends say, “He’s a keeper.”
Cindy Hval can be reached at dchval@juno.com. Hval is the author of “War Bonds: Love Stories from the Greatest Generation” (Casemate Publishers, 2015) available at Auntie’s Bookstore and bookstores nationwide.
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