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So Clearly I’ve Been Married To An Engineer For The Past 18 Years

June 19, 2014 By Jenny Ryan 4 Comments

My husband: “I’m sending you a link, and despite what the subject line says, you have to watch it all the way through.”

Me: “Uh oh. On a scale of 0-10, where does it fall on The Dark Side Of The Internet?”

My husband: “6.”

Me: “What?! That’s high. I don’t want to watch that.”

My husband: “That’s not high. If 0 is as pure as the driven snow, and 10 is the deepest, blackest pits of hell, then 6 isn’t that bad.”

Me: “Oh, OK. I guess that would only be a little bit above 50%. I was just relating it to my pain scale; if I have a 6 pain level, that’s really high.”

My husband: “True.”

Me (the language major in me dying a little as I said this): “I guess we need better calibration between our scales.”

Filed Under: CFG On Love And Marriage

Comments

  1. Casey says

    June 19, 2014 at 3:21 pm

    When you say “your pain scale,” do you mean the moderately confusing one they present at the hospital or Allie Brosh’s (I think more accurate) one: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/02/boyfriend-doesnt-have-ebola-probably.html ? I keep meaning to print out hers and take it with me to the hospital next time I know they’re going to ask.

  2. Cranky Fibro Girl says

    June 19, 2014 at 3:52 pm

    I LOVE her pain scale! I keep meaning to laminate it and gift it to my fibro doctor.

    Truthfully, I think I create a new pain scale every day-my perception of my illness tends to be rather fluid 😛

  3. Julie says

    June 24, 2014 at 1:39 pm

    So did you watch it and just how high did it actually rank?

  4. Cranky Fibro Girl says

    June 27, 2014 at 4:15 pm

    Oh, I’d say that the first, like, 4 minutes and 58 seconds was maybe an 8, but then the last few seconds revealed the joke and brought it down to a one or a zero. But it was dicey there for a while.

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