I went home last weekend for a 24-hour visit because of a mini mental meltdown. Fortunately I was cured by my mom's rice crispy roll and a chat with Grandma, and I returned to Regina refreshed and ready to take on my final week of school.
I also left with a whole new perspective on relationships and life. Now, I'm not going to name names, but I went on an adventure with a couple who are very close to me. These people's names may or may not rhyme with Bike and Lacky. And they may or may not be closely related to me. But that's not important.
Because these nice people wanted to humour me in my fragile state, Saturday I was riding around with them, checking out the lack of Christmas lights in Estevan. As we're driving along, Bike pointed out every time we passed a house with a Christmas tree in the window. He was pointedly ignored by Lacky, who pointed out several other houses without Christmas trees. Apparently they're in the middle of an ongoing battle over whether or not to set up their Christmas tree. This battle continued all the way from Pleasantdale to the Spruce Ridge area, then Trojan and Westview.
Finally I asked Bike why he wanted to put up the Christmas tree, since they were in the middle of painting their house. It seemed rather inconvenient to have a tree up when the house was swirling with dust.
He replied that their youngest daughter wanted the Christmas tree up. He explained that he had to pick a side, so he chose to be pro-tree. I countered that he should just stay neutral in the matter. He considered it for a moment, then replied that staying neutral would be a good idea, because it would give him a stronger currency, though it was a lot of fun to needle Lacky.
What I learned: 1) married people are funny. This is the same couple who can't go for walks together because they can't find a speed that they agree on. Hilarious. So much love!
2) Neutral countries have strong currency?
3) Having a sense of humour is the greatest quality in a relationship. This couple seems to be able to laugh at each other (though one seems to do more laughing than the other) and it works for them.
4) Estevan needs to put up some more Christmas lights. Twinkle tours are rather boring when only one house in town looks festive.
Tonaya Marr really hopes you didn't figure out the identity of the couple in her story. My parents would be choked if I told everyone their private stories. Let me know what you think by e-mail tonaya.marr@gmail.com or follow me on Twitter @tellemarr.
