In My House, If It's Broken I Bought It (standard:humor, 935 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Feb 15 2005	Views/Reads: 3734/2370	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Often a store has a sign with the warning, "You break it, you bought it." This is to keep people from carelessly handling the merchandise. I'm thinking of another sign, which should be posted all through my house. "If it's broken, I boug

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Several months before this my wife insisted I throw out this antiquated
easy chair and get a new one. Looking back now I see it was a foolish 
thing to do n but then I laughed at her and told her in no uncertain 
terms that this easy chair was in perfect condition. She just looked at 
me, shook her head and walked away. 

With panic as incentive, I gathered up the pieces of what used to be my
easy chair and tried to figure how to put it all back together. I went 
to the garage, got some tools, a roll of wire and several rolls of duct 
tape. Working at the speed of a husband in trouble I managed to put the 
chair back in what I thought was good shape. 

Sighing a sigh of relief, I carefully tested out the chair. Much to my
pleasure and delight, it cradled me as afore. Leaning back in my chair, 
I could not believe I had pulled one over on my Better Half. Nothing 
matches an easy chair properly broken in. 

Later that evening my wife and I were sitting together watching
television. Out of the blue, she brought up the subject of my chair. 
"Don't you think," she reflected in one of those wifely moods, "you 
should replace that old chair of yours?" 

"Ha!" I said with the confidence of a fox who got away with a plump
chicken. "This chair has a few more good years left in it." 

Just then I heard a familiar sound. 

B-O-I-N-G! 

Everything collapsed, and as I went free falling my whole life passed
before my eyes. Looking up into the smiling eyes of my wife, she simply 
said, "My, how time flies." 

The whole incident reminded me of a verse in the Bible. "Wherefore let
him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. There hath no 
temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, 
who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will 
with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to 
bear it." (1 Corinthians 10:12-13 KJV.) 


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