{"id":7889,"date":"2026-02-02T20:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=7889"},"modified":"2026-02-02T20:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:40:17","slug":"sotd-when-husbands-get-too-clever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=7889","title":{"rendered":"SOTD \u2013 When Husbands Get Too Clever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Story 1 (Laundry):<\/strong><br \/>\nOne evening, a husband feeling overly confident joked to his wife that washing her clothes in Slim Fast might \u201ctake a few inches off your backside.\u201d She said nothing, but the next morning he opened his drawer and a cloud of powder burst out of his boxers. Coughing, he yelled, \u201cAPRIL! Why is there talcum powder in my boxers?!\u201d From the bathroom she replied sweetly, \u201cOh honey, that\u2019s not talcum powder \u2014 it\u2019s Miracle\u2011Gro.\u201d Some silence followed. He finally learned some jokes have consequences, while she calmly continued her morning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Story 2 (Hospital):<\/strong><br \/>\nA woman sat beside her husband\u2019s hospital bed for months while he hovered in and out of a coma. She talked to him daily, stayed through every visit and setback, never leaving. One afternoon he finally opened his eyes and spoke. He thanked her for being there through every hardship \u2014 job loss, injuries, losing their home, failing health \u2014 and then said, \u201cI think you\u2019re cursed.\u201d She laughed, squeezed his hand, and said, \u201cThen I guess you\u2019re stuck with me.\u201d Sometimes love isn\u2019t grand gestures \u2014 it\u2019s staying and finding humor even in terrible moments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Story 1 (Laundry): One evening, a husband feeling overly confident joked to his wife that washing her clothes in Slim Fast might \u201ctake a few <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=7889\" title=\"SOTD \u2013 When Husbands Get Too Clever!\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7890,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889\/revisions\/7890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}