We have been married going on 28yrs.
For our 10th I brought her over to Italy (back then I was in the USN and my ship was in port in Naples) She had never been out of the states.
I took her to my favorite restaurant in Sorrento. The only thing she saw on the menu that she recognized besides spaghetti was "Shrimp Scampi". She says "Oooh I like the way they make it at Red Lobster, I'll get this! And I will take the Seafood salad too." Well, being a world traveler I didn't even think about what she had ordered. I had Linguini with white clam sauce. Welllll let me tell you about her reaction. First of all she is a southern belle from L.A. (Lower Alabama) who lead a fairly sheltered life, until she met me. Never had a drink or a smoke. She wont even say the word FART. Anyway, the waiter brings my pasta first and I swear it was served on a pizza pan it was so big. He then brings out her Shrimp Scampi. He is walking through the crowded room so he has her plate up over his head. He gets to our table and says to her, "For da pritty lady ah tolda da cookah to makeh hiza bestes Scampi eveh, ah hopa chu enajoy dis a veddi much." He then put the plate down in front of her. I swear she turned green.:eeew: The Shrimp Scampi was two VERY LARGE prawns, split tail to head. All of the legs, antenna, eye balls, shell and head were still attached. The waiter thought he had offended her in some way and was also very upset. I explained the situation about eyeballs etc to calm eveyone down.
No way in hell that was staying on our table in front of her, so I removed the meat and put it on my Linguini so he could take her plate away.
She then says she will just eat her salad. The waiter brings her seafood salad.
I guess I forgot to mention that this was a SEAFOOD salad, with the emphasis on the seafood. Matter of fact, there wasn't any vegetable matter in this salad. It was a mixture of Calamari, Mitili, Molluschi, Gamberetto and Polipo (squid, mussels, clams, prawns and octopus). It was all cooked and cleaned and was not hot, sort of chilled like shrimp cocktail. Only problem here was those tenticles with those suckers on them. She started crying. Asked if she could have spaghetti instead, as long as there wasn't anything odd in it. I tried to eat the salad but just didnt have the room.
The waiters tip was significantly more than the cost of the meal.
For our 25th I was planning to take her on a cruise ship to Alaska. She seemed to be pretty excited about that. Just before I was about to make the reservations she says "You know, what? Why dont we just buy one of those BIG screen TV's that you mount on the wall." Then she says, "I mean one of those big ol' honkin 50" plasma screens that gets HDTV."
I thought I was having a religious experience. :thumbsup:
Then I almost wet myself when she says "Can you imagine what it would be like to play an Xbox on one of those things, we can get one of those too you know."
I am trying to maintain my composure and said "Geez dear, I don't know..."
She insisted.
We have had a 50" Pioneer Plasma mounted on our living room wall for the last 3 years.:rock:
So, now we are coming up on our 28th.
She was talking about
me building a deck on the back of the house. After a few discouraging estimates for materials and such, she announces that she wants another wall mounted TV for the bed room.
I think I'll keep her.