fun with words
This morning, I heard someone use the word “uxorious” in casual conversation, and it brought back fond memories.

Specifically, memories of one summer in college I spent unloading trucks. One of the other guys had a particularly clingy wife. He was forever going home early because his wife had a headache, or his wife heard a noise in the basement, or his wife saw a rat in the kitchen. Since his workload usually got farmed out to me, this became rather annoying.

Finally, one day he went home early because his wife had a cold.

“Dude,” said I, “you are possibly the most uxorious fellow I’ve ever met.”

This puzzled him. “What does that mean?”

“Since you’re going home anyway,” I suggested, “why not look it up?”

So he went home. The next day he came into work with an expression of considerable consternation, came up to me, and said:

“That is NOT! FUNNY!”

Great fun. Great fun.

-JM