We have been on vacation this week and it has been very entertaining in that husband has been all conjunction junction what’s your function by capturing certain key moments with phrases and clauses.
It started early Saturday morning when I was up making coffee and he came around the corner into the kitchen and yelled “WHERE’S THE HUNGRY MAN?!”
I nearly spilled the coffee as I asked him “Wha-ha?”
“THE HUNGRY MAN! WHERE IS HE?” he yelled.
And this was the catch phrase – or question – I heard (and others heard) for the next couple of days.
This question was actually posed to him on his last day of work before our vacation started. A strange and probably deranged woman came running up to him as he was working the cookie aisle in one of his many stores and got right in his face and yelled “WHERE’S THE HUNGRY MAN?!?”
My husband, who’s been working in grocery retail for more than 30 years and has just about seen and heard it all, was understandably taken back by this one.
“Uh, who?” he asked the strange deranged.
“THE HUNGRY MAN. HAVE YOU SEEN HIM?” she yelled.
He quickly figured out, though a crowd had begun to form wondering who this hungry man was and if they should remove their children from the store, that she was talking about Hungry Man biscuits and showed her where they were. It was a really strange moment and one that scared a co-worker he was training that day.
So, at certain moments on our vacation, my husband shouts to no one in particular “WHERE’S THE HUNGRY MAN??!!” just because he can.
Then Saturday, after the wood stuff and as “we” watched the prairie marathon – we meaning I went and did some writing (I’ve done lots of writing this week, beloveds! Almost daily!) while he watched the marathon. At one point he started yelling at the TV “BUT WHAT ABOUT DREW? DOESN’T ANYONE CARE ABOUT DREW??”
And that became catch phrase number two. I don’t know who Drew is or why he matters so much to my husband, but when things are not going smoothly, this is currently the phrase he chooses to express himself with. “But what about Drew, honey? What about DREW???”
And I honestly reply “I don’t know about Drew. I really don’t.” Because I don’t. Really.
Then last night as I watched the CMA Awards ONLY because I was on vacation and ONLY because I am completely in love with my husband who wanted to see it, that’s when I learned about “the smell of the dog” catch phrase number three.
I had asked husband a question about something random and he knew the answer to it and I was all impressed because he didn’t even google it so I said “that’s amazing that you know that.” And he was all “That’s because I have the smell of the dog.”
And now every time he does anything with success he says “I HAVE THE SMELL OF THE DOG!” with great pride and occasionally with these very odd looking ninja moves.
I don’t know what this means blog friends. I do know that our dog smells and it is not a pleasant odor. I don’t know if he’s meaning to say the “hair of the dog”? Of if he thinks he’s saying “the eye of the tiger”? Or maybe “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”? Whatever, he has the smell of the dog. And he is very happy about it.































