Dumb Arguments

Do you ever find yourself having really ridiculous arguments with people, especially when you're tired? Those of you who are married probably know this tune well, but it also exists between siblings or perhaps close roommates.

Joseph and I argue about really dumb stuff all the time. And when we're tired, these "discussions" get a little corny to say the least, though we sometimes might only see this in retrospect.

Case in point. Last night after Joseph got home from work at midnight, we were playing a vocabulary game online, that I had discovered through Tirzah's blog. Its cool because it donates food to world hunger when you play it. Really.

So anyway, after we were done playing I asked Joseph if he had had fun learning new words.

"No, it was dumb." He was just trying to get my dander up. "I have a book at school about how to learn vocabulary, I should bring it home for you, " he added.

Excuse me? I replied, "I already know how to learn vocabulary, its really easy for me. I'm the smartest person in the world!" Yeah, I said that.

"If you're the smartest person in the world, how come you didn't know some of the words on the game?" He thought he had me there.

"Because no one else in the world knows those words either, " I answered smugly.

"What about the people who made the game? They had to know the definitions of those words. "

"Nope. They had to look them up in a dictionary. So there." Oh yeah, I had won.
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Another late night (we have a lot of these) I had said or done something to annoy Joseph (I don't remember what.)

I was sitting at the computer at the time, and he had tersely told me, "Don't go look at my blog."

"Why," I asked in mild interest, "did you do something new to it?"

"No, I'm just mad at you so I don't want you to look at it," he answered somewhat sheepishly.

"Fine," I answered. " I'll never look at it again. And I'll tell everyone on my blog not to look at it ever again either."

This elicited a wail from my husband, "No!"

"Yep," (I was just warming up), "I'm gonna tell people you put naughty pictures on there so they shouldn't ever go there at all."

"Oh yeah?" His hackles were rising. He he.
"Well....I'm gonna post a video on your blog of people fighting, and people will think you posted it as a way to say, 'This is you and I'm gonna beat you up if you look at my blog'."

This made absolutely no sense and we were kind of laughing now, but I still replied, "People who read my blog would like a video like that. They'd think I was really cool."

End of argument.