Lessons of Marriage
There are so many lessons we learn from marriage that no one ever mentions before we enter into the eternal bliss of holy matrimony. One personal trait can be the key to success in every marriage. Only one spouse needs to possess it and that's a good thing because I've found that in virtually all marriages I've ever known, only one spouse has actually had the trait. What is it, you ask? It's tolerance.
Back in the early 90's I bought my wife a cell phone when they were expensive and impractical. She worked nights, drove a long way to work and I wanted to make sure she was safe. She complained because it was too expensive. I don't think she ever used it. By the mid 90's the prices had come down and I bought us both a cell phone for emergency use. We were both traveling a lot and I felt better knowing we could call for a tow truck if we needed to. She rarely used the phone.
I got a better plan with more minutes and she started to use the cell phone more, but usually I would call her number and it would be turned off. I constantly complained and told her to keep it on so I could reach her if I needed to. Quite often she would gripe about the phones telling me that she didn't need it and we should get rid of them.
We would have to replace her phone quite often because it would get washed or stolen, the whole time she would swear that she didn't need one at all. I should have listened. A couple of years ago I got a new plan with several hundred anytime minutes, unlimited nights and weekends and rollover minutes. I also got new phones. A few months ago I got her a new phone. Now, granted the features she knows how to use are "dial" and "charge", but it's a decent phone.
She's been out of town for a while and has been using her phone a lot. So, two months ago, when I got a cell phone bill for $316.00, I was a little dismayed. I called her and told her she needed to ease up on the phone use because the phone bill was too high. She couldn't believe it was that much and immediately swore that there must be some mistake because she hates to talk on the phone and she just couldn't have talked that much. I explained that she did, indeed, talk that much and that I recognized all the numbers. I told her that I "understood" because she was having to use the phone as her only source of communication. I also explained that I would change the phone plan and get more anytime minutes so that this wouldn't happen again.
I changed the plan, doubled the minutes, then they gave me a 1000 extra minutes to boot. I called her back the next day and told her the plan was fixed, but go easy on the phone so we didn't get caught by surprise again.
Last month I got a nice little phone bill of $69. I felt like things were going well. Today I got this month's bill. Things ain't going so well. This month's bill was $1,346.00. My little princess spent 5394 minutes on the phone. And you know, she just hates talking on the phone. When I told her how much the bill was...she called everybody and told them.
Back in the early 90's I bought my wife a cell phone when they were expensive and impractical. She worked nights, drove a long way to work and I wanted to make sure she was safe. She complained because it was too expensive. I don't think she ever used it. By the mid 90's the prices had come down and I bought us both a cell phone for emergency use. We were both traveling a lot and I felt better knowing we could call for a tow truck if we needed to. She rarely used the phone.
I got a better plan with more minutes and she started to use the cell phone more, but usually I would call her number and it would be turned off. I constantly complained and told her to keep it on so I could reach her if I needed to. Quite often she would gripe about the phones telling me that she didn't need it and we should get rid of them.
We would have to replace her phone quite often because it would get washed or stolen, the whole time she would swear that she didn't need one at all. I should have listened. A couple of years ago I got a new plan with several hundred anytime minutes, unlimited nights and weekends and rollover minutes. I also got new phones. A few months ago I got her a new phone. Now, granted the features she knows how to use are "dial" and "charge", but it's a decent phone.
She's been out of town for a while and has been using her phone a lot. So, two months ago, when I got a cell phone bill for $316.00, I was a little dismayed. I called her and told her she needed to ease up on the phone use because the phone bill was too high. She couldn't believe it was that much and immediately swore that there must be some mistake because she hates to talk on the phone and she just couldn't have talked that much. I explained that she did, indeed, talk that much and that I recognized all the numbers. I told her that I "understood" because she was having to use the phone as her only source of communication. I also explained that I would change the phone plan and get more anytime minutes so that this wouldn't happen again.
I changed the plan, doubled the minutes, then they gave me a 1000 extra minutes to boot. I called her back the next day and told her the plan was fixed, but go easy on the phone so we didn't get caught by surprise again.
Last month I got a nice little phone bill of $69. I felt like things were going well. Today I got this month's bill. Things ain't going so well. This month's bill was $1,346.00. My little princess spent 5394 minutes on the phone. And you know, she just hates talking on the phone. When I told her how much the bill was...she called everybody and told them.
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