Oh, I can give advice. Miss Jordana was detailing some of the advice she and the hubby have received over the years, and I chimed in with one bit that has always worked well for me: "Take the smallest cookie."
That was from an old Ann Landers column with advice from 3rd graders to mommies and daddies, and it works remarkably well. Of course, left unsaid is that the whole trick to taking the smallest cookie is going through the stack sometime before you and your beloved are together with the cookies, finding the biggest cookie, hiding it for later, then gallantly taking the smallest and offering the biggest REMAINING cookie to your dearly beloved.
Or so I've heard.
ANOTHER tip worth mentioning (although I thought better of mentioning it on someone else's site) is one of the most effective forms of communication between husband and wife. That is, to call her up at work during the day when you know she'll be busy and then start making all sorts of salacious suggestions. This works very well if you first identify yourself as the city foundation inspector, and then say you'd like to set up a time to inspect her foundation garments. Works even better when she's got people in her office and can't really talk back.
That ploy is particularly good at keeping her from saying she knows all about the previously mentioned cookie-hiding ruse.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at September 28, 2006 02:24 PMI think one should always get one's spouse an ice cream sandwich when one is getting one for oneself. Unless of course, the spouse is out of hearing. In which case, you wolf one down quickly, and then join your spouse in the other room holding two ice cream sandwiches, so you can delight in their yumminess together.
Posted by: Jordana at September 28, 2006 07:43 PMHehehehe--You seem to have been spying on me!
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at September 28, 2006 09:10 PMI question whether the brain-freeze induced by eating ice cream that fast is worth the benefit. Not that it's a bad idea, mind you, only that it may make looking innocent harder.
Posted by: skinnydan at September 29, 2006 08:39 AMWell, that's where charm comes in...
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at September 29, 2006 08:40 AM