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Hit the floor running?

I tried every way to change her so I wouldn't need to keep an eye on her to be sure she didn't start boiling potatoes for breakfast instead of eggs. I put a timing device on the television set that cut off the current at 10 p.m. Did she retire at a decent time and get her rest? No, she took up reading love stories in magazines! She reminded me of a lovesick teenager instead of a woman 35 years old.

She was strictly a birdbrain about such things. Otherwise, she was OK.

I made up my mind I’d cure her if it was the last thing I did, but it wasn’t until I visited the stockyards that I discovered a workable gadget. I saw a man driving a herd of cattle to a pen, and the stubborn ones he would touch lightly on the hind quarters with a cane. They would start moving immediately. I asked about it, and the man said it was an electric cane powered by batteries, that it was the only humane way he had found to make the cattle move.

I got the manufacturer's address and ordered a cane. The morning after it arrived, I put the cane under the bed covers and pressed the button.

The results were amazing. My wife emitted an earsplitting scream and jumped out of bed. The bed clothes flew upward, and she hit the floor running. She was like a firefighter on the way to a six-alarm fire.

Of course, there were some harsh words spoken. Also, she used some Swedish cuss words. (She has Swedish blood in her.) As I'm Irish, I didn't get the full import, but could guess she was mad.