Thursday, October 22, 2009

Husbands: Don't Argue With Your Lawyer Wives.

Today, my husband and I ACTUALLY had this discussion.

Me: "Can I have a pony."
Husband: "You can have an imaginary pony!"
Me: "That's stupid! I want a REAL pony."
Husband: "Yeah but can a REAL pony do backflips?"
Me "Uh...."
Husband: "I have an imaginary pony and HE can do backflips."
Me: "My real pony could do imaginary backflips."
Husband: "My imaginary pony can do REAL backfips!"
Me: "NO WAY. An imaginary pony can only do imaginary backflips. And ANY real pony could do an imaginary backflip."
Husband: "That's ridiculous. Imaginary ponies can do REAL backflips."
Me: "That's like saying an invisible man can do a visible cartwheel."
Husband: "Just because the pony is imaginary doesn't mean his backflips are imaginary. He can still do both imaginary and real backflips."
Me: "Ok, have your pony do a "real" backflip and I will tell you if it was real or not....Don't make me call an expert witness."

Thankfully our check came at this point in the conversation.

3 comments:

CM said...

Sorry to break it to you, Cee, but your husband is right. If the imaginary pony imagines himself doing a backflip, then that's an imaginary backflip. But if YOU imagine the imaginary pony doing a backflip, then that's a real backflip for the imaginary pony because, since the pony exists only in your imagination, if your imagination makes him do a backflip then he actually did a backflip. So both a real or imaginary pony can do a real or imaginary backflip. But they shouldn't, because they would hurt themselves.

CP said...

I have to disagree, if my imagination imagines a pony, it is an imaginary pony. So if my imagination imagines the pony doing a backflip, it is STILL an imaginary backflip!!!

Anonymous said...

this is awesome.
i said "hearsay" no less than 10 times in my husband and i's last argument. it comes in handy.