First a little grammar slash colloquial speaking note. Technically saying “A nice evening with the wife” is wrong, but in colloquial speech if a guy is talking to another guy he might say “I went to a movie with the wife last night…” I've never heard a women say “the husband” in the same context. Anyway to the topic. As I've said in other podcasts, I'm not currently working at the moment since I'm heading back home to the US soon and so I sit around all day and read pretty much and wait for my wife to come home. Yesterday was beautiful day and it was still quite sunny in the evening, so my wife called me and had me meet her in the city center (we live in Krakow, Poland right now).
I love spending time and doing anything with my wife, but my favorite times are when it's just us and we go do something informal like have a beer, or go out and get a bite to eat and that's what we did yesterday. Nothing special really but they're my favorite moments and they're moments in time I'll have to live without for several months. We met at Theatre Bagatela which is a very famous theatre among the Polish and a general meeting place near the city center. We decided that we would start with a beer somewhere then get something small to eat like a kebab. Throughout the whole walk to wherever we were going she felt like having a beer but when we got to our destination of course she opted for a cocktail instead. When I'm in the States I don't mind drinking cocktails but in Poland there is a huge quality/price/value discrepancy when it comes to buying beer in a pub or restaurant to buying any other kind of drink whether it's juice, a cocktail, or a soda. You get almost nothing and in the case of juice and soda you pay almost as much as for a pint of beer. So when I go out, I drink only beer because I can swallow the juices and sodas in a gulp. Luckily Polish beer is extremely underrated.
We found a place outside and had some pleasant conversation, and decided to go get something to eat. We went to a place she always sees in the tram coming and going to work that she had never tried before and bought a couple kebabs. After that she felt full but I made her buy and ice cream which I got to eat after I finished mine. That's a little husband trick by the way, I certainly can't sit and buy 7 scoops of ice cream like I would want to so at the very least I can make my wife buy a scoop even if she doesn't feel like eating it ‘cause I know I'll get to eat it in the end. J So that's about it, nothing eventful really but just one of those small building blocks to being happy in a marriage. We're not a perfect marriage by any stretch of the imagination but we're good together and that's all I can ask for.
