Phil,
You are too funny.  If Sandy runs out of wooden spoons to smack you 
with all she has to do is let me know and I'll sendher a fresh 
supply.  GRIN!  Laughing all the way.
Kathy

At 01:58 PM 5/1/2006, you wrote:
>Kathy,
>
>The opposites of wives?  That is an interesting question.  That's not what I
>was thinking.  I am guessing, because I only know you from email, that you
>may, I say may, be a more strong willed person.  I know it probably appears
>I am such myself, based upon things I say as I hide behind a keyboard, but I
>am not strong willed.  Sandy is and that is, quite frankly, what attracted
>me to her.  Well, there were one or two other things but I won't go there.
>She was also giving drum lessons and I was trying to learn how to play the
>drums as a senior in high school.  She is a much older woman than I am and
>was working as a medical transcriptionist for a local hospital at the time
>but did the drum lessons for extra money.  I never got my drum lessons.  I
>did get something else, three children, but all those came years later, of
>course.  In short, I was attracted to her because of her strong will,
>something her mom and dad should have spanked out of her when she was
>little, but I'm sort of glad they didn't now, haw.  Oh, how much older is
>she?  Two and a half years.  My kids, when they were little, always had
>trouble understanding that their mom was older than their dad.  Finally,
>trying to explain it one day, I said, well, they say TV was invented in 1950
>so your mother was born a year before television and your dad was born two
>years after television.  Sandy has never forgiven me to this day for that
>simple, child like, explanation.  Of course, TV was around many years before
>that but the popular year for it was 19 fifty.  So, Kathy, does this let me
>out of the dog house or not?
>
>Phil.