Six years ago my wife's sister Mary came to live with us. That was a major life style change for us. Mary is blind, oh she can see shadows sometimes, but the woman can not do anything outside of her comfort zone, her home. Her husband Jeff had kept her at home and refused to let her go outside of the home to get help dealing with her condition. Jeff started running around nwith other women, and told Mary she could not do anything due to her helplessness. Well Jeff was wrong.
Mary did come to live with us and we helped her get training to do things on her own. The one thing we could not stop was when Jeff's girl friends all dumped him and he started calling Mary during the day while we were at work. Jeff convinced Mary to go back to Georgia to be with him. But Mary refused to remarry him, and she set up her own checking/savings account, seperate from Jeff. Mary calls the electric company, and the gas company, to find out what the bills are, no longer relying on Jeff since she knows he lies. Mary pays half of the utilities, and rent. Jeff has to come up with the rest. Mary no longer lets Jeff push her around either. Now that Mary is no longer his slave Jeff is getting tired of Mary, we keep hoping he will put her on a plane and send her back.
Anyway what is so funny. Jeff brought the dog dish in and left it in the kitchen sink. Mary came in and washed the dishes, but she was confussed about this bowl. She just figured Jeff had gotten himself a big bowl for his own personal use. So the next day Mary fixed Jeff lunch, a big bowl of soup. She placed the new big bowl in front of him. Jeff blew up because she was feeding him out of a dog bowl. Well the dumby should not have put the dog bowl in the sink with the dirty dishes. Then today, Mary went to the cupboard and got out the small cans of Tuna Fish. She fixes Jeff a Tuna Fish sandwich, and puts it on the table in front of him. Jeff eats it, thinking it had a funny taste. After the meal Mary cleans off the table, Jeff decides to feed the dogs. He goes to the cupboard, and the dog food he had put in the cupboard was missing. (What is he doing putting dog food in the kitchen cupboard?) Jeff goes to the trash and finds the empty dog food can. Mary had simply gone to the cupboard where she always kept cans of tuna fish, gotten out a can and made Jeff's sandwich. Don't blame Mary, she can't read the labels. Dog food had never been put in the kitchen cabinet before either. Jeff called saying Mary was trying to poison him, he is going to send her back. We are hoping. Jeff was never the brightest bulb in the box anyway. Still laughing.
