RANDOM THOUGHTS ON THE WAY TO THE GROCERY STORE

Allow me throw some thoughts at you here, just to give you an idea of what goes on inside my head and the head of the Voice from the Passenger's Seat.
1. Text to #2 Son:  How many people are coming?
     Response: I invited 7 to 11.  Maybe just 3 or 4 will come.  Maybe we can cancel it.  We look at one another, shake our heads and agree that those who come celebrate.  Those who don't, leave more food and drink for those who do.  So, one way or the other, everyone winds up happy.
2. Facing a gorgeous orange ball sunset.  About 1/3 of the circle is still visible.  "Oh, look how beautiful that is.  Good thing we are on the crest of this hill.  Ah, good, the light is red."  Before we get underway again, the sun is gone.  "Hey, that was too fast."  I, in my professorial way remark that at this point of the earth's surface the earth is spinning at about 800 miles per hour.  She wonders how come we don't fly off.  I say gravely, [:-)] "Gravity."  I remember the old joke about the strapless evening gown and Jane Russell.  She of the Western film shoot-'em-ups.  "What keeps your dress up?"  To which she responds, "Gravity.  The gravity of what would happen should it fall."
3.  From there we go to wondering why we feel as though we are standing in what we feel is an up-down, down-up vertical position when we know that we inhabit a part of the globe where we should be sticking out of one side in a left-right horizontal position.
4.  We return to the 800 mile-per-hour situation and wonder why we don't feel the speed of the wind whistling in our ears.  Are we like dogs in a pick-up truck who like to face into the wind?

In short, that is what married life is.  Two people have the ability to entertain one another with the most trite of all topics and think that they are really bright.  Married people make one another happy because they know that there is no way out anyway.  Married people have learned to make arrows out of any kind of wood, from any branch on any tree.
No, I did not just make that up.  It is an old French piece of wisdom that comes from the saying, "Faire fleche de tout bois."  So now you know what keeps us happy.  When you see two old people holding hands, know that in that gesture they are sure that they are the world champion athletes at loving and caring hand-holding.
That last one, I just made up.  Just now.  Just for you.