• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

JON ZAL

Your front-row seat to my nervous breakdown

  • Home
  • About
  • Contact

Example of why I have learned to mostly quit while I’m ahead

September 12, 2008 3 Comments

iPhone

Me to my wife after running outside and catching her before she backs out of the driveway so that I can hand to her the cellphone she left on the kitchen counter—the one that I can never reach her on:

“Please keep this on you.”

“I do.”

“Apparently not.”

“Yes, I do. That’s why it was inside.”

“Huh?”

“I said, ‘I do keep it on me; that’s why it was inside.'”

“Wait: ‘Please keep your cellphone on you’; ‘I do; that’s why it
wasn’t on me’ …?”

“Yep.” [pleasant smile]

“… wha …?”

“I kept it on me when I came inside earlier instead of leaving it in the car. That’s why it was in the kitchen.”

Ladies and gentlemen, I ask you: how can you argue with that logic? And, speaking as someone who has been married to her for 10 wonderful years, allow me to answer for you: you can’t.

  • Leave a comment
  • Read 3 comments

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X

Like this:

Like Loading...

More stuff to read:

«Previous Post
Next Post»

Filed Under: Life, Marriage

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Tami says

    September 15, 2008 at 8:59 pm

    Not sure where I stumbled across your website . . . . but I love your Jon Stewart videos! You have a great group together that I can add to my favorites!

    Loading...
    Reply
  2. Jennifer says

    September 23, 2008 at 2:40 pm

    Uh oh…. He’s on to us.

    Loading...
    Reply
  3. Jon Zal says

    October 22, 2008 at 11:36 am

    Tami: Thanks!

    Jennifer: Yeah, you busted, sistah.

    Loading...
    Reply

Leave a commentCancel reply

Back to Top

Primary Sidebar

FEATURED POSTS

Van Halen (or, The Band That Ate My Life)

There must be a reckoning

No, really: This job-search thing is like shooting fish in a barrel

Hell hath no fury like white-male privilege threatened

Take Me Out to the Therapist… Take Me Out to the Shrink…

Daddy Vader

If not for The Force, Darth Vader would have totally gotten his ass kicked, because that suit? Not very practical.

Turns out I have a bright future ahead of me ... in a field about which I know nothing

Man, this finding-a-new-job thing is going to be easier than I thought

Zombie Dinner Party … with your chef, Dr. Hannibal Lector

An Open Letter of Apology to President Barack Obama

Is it November yet?

ABOUT ME

Jon Zal @ The Massachusetts State House, Boston

I was born in 1970, raised just outside of Boston, and now live near Philadelphia. As a child, I thought I was going to be…
Read the rest »

Archives

Search

© 2000–2025 JON ZAL / Contact Me
JZ logo
Twitter / Instagram
Back to Top

%d