Thursday, November 03, 2005

Why Procrastinators Should Not Marry

Say Spouse A dilly-dallied a little bit and didn't really feel like going to the licensing agency with two small children in tow and turn in some necessary paperwork in order to get the car tabs renewed. Say Spouse B started driving Spouse A's car. Say Spouse B got pulled over and issued a $200 ticket for driving with expired tabs. (This is all totally hypothetical of course.) Even though Spouse B is filled with anger at Spouse A and really wants to shout and make a big fuss about Spouse A's lackadaisical attitude toward car tab renewal, Spouse B realizes that he himself has very rarely renewed the car tabs in a timely fashion and does not have much room to fuss. Spouse A is very, very, very sorry of course, but it would feel so much better if it were possible to throw around some righteous indignation.

And this is why procrastinators should not marry. Hypothetically.