Ouch! …and double ouch!!

I was stuck for words. Twice in one conversation. I’m not usually left without something to say. A quip or a zinger is always on the tip of my tongue. Sometimes I surprise myself! But my wife got me good yesterday, twice. (Did I tell you yet that she got me twice?)

We left Costco yesterday with a basket of goodies preparing for a BBQ tonight. Wifey usually offers to help me load the stuff in the trunk and I usually refuse her assistance. “That’s ok, Honey. I can handle it.” Yesterday was different. She didn’t offer. When I got back in the car, the conversation went like this:

Me: You usually offer to help. I could have used it this time. It’s windy out there today and the trunk lid blew down and hit me twice.
Wife: Is that what happened to your head?
Me: It didn’t hit my head. It hit my arm and back.
Wife: Then what happened to your head?
Me:
Semi-long pause…

Me: You’re funny.
Wife: I wasn’t trying to be.
Me: :

I changed the subject.