Butch and I were having one of our dreaded money talks which I'd prefer to avoid like the plague. I have my own ideas about money, thank you very much. It is to be enjoyed and shared and ... enjoyed! Butch doesn't agree. His miserly self thinks it should just sit in a bank and gather dust for our retirement. Old fogey.
Anyway, as he was trying to convince me yet again of the life-saving positives of having a little money for our future, he grandly exclaims, finger in air, "The Bible says a penny earned is a penny saved!" (He likes to try to quote the Bible because he knows it carries a lot of weight with me. He *tries*.)
Me - "Uh, that was Benjamin Franklin, not the Bible. And you got it backwards."
Butch answers, "What? Nah. That's the Bible."
I said, "No, sorry. Old Ben."
Butch huffs and goes on to point out that some of my book keeping practices are, how do I say, not altogether forthcoming? Hidden expenses, possibly? He again with the righteous finger in the air, "Well in the Bible it says, 'Oh what a tangled web we weave when we don't tell the whole truth!'"
Wow. "Okay, first of all, again NOT the Bible. That was Sir Walter Scott. Second, not the correct quote, it's 'when we practice to deceive' and I wasn't deceiving! I just forgot to write down the expense for another new puppy! Anybody could have made that mistake!"
Butch, "Uh huh. Sure. And who's Sir Whatchamacallit? Nah. That's the Bible isn't it? Well I KNOW it says, 'Neither a borrower nor a lender be.'"
"Shakespeare."
Butch started getting frustrated. "Nuh UH. Well anyway, it DOES say that money is the root of all evil. So there."
"Well actuallyyyy, it says the love of money is the root of all evil but whatever. That one IS from the Bible so, good job!"
He waves his hand at me like he just can't talk to me anymore and walks out of the room grumbling, "The more things change, the more they stay the same."
I yell from the other room, "Snake Plissken in Escape from LA!"
Look. We can have all the money talks you want but if you're gonna come at me armed with quotes, you better quote them correctly or you're going down.
At least I got us off the money talk. Heh, heh, heh. ;)
