Just Some Smokey Adjustment

A good friend of ours, Dennis, a loving and considerate father always took a moment to advise his newly married son on the secrets of a good marriage, and that married life was mostly a matter of making Adjustments!

Then one Saturday afternoon the father called his son to see how things were going in the newly weds home and upon answering the phone, the father could detect an irritation of some sort in his sons voice.

After making a few inquiries the son confessed, "It's just like you said Pop, marriage is making adjustments and be willing to change and, oh, you know the rest…"

After some gentle nudging from a curious father, the son proceeded to tell this story,

"Last night when I got home from work Kathy had made a fine dinner and after dinner she was cleaning up the dishes and because the dishwasher would not hold all the dishes she put a bunch of them inside the still warm oven. This is her habit from her up bringing I guess."

"Well what's the matter with that son, our friend inquired.

The son hesitated a little but went on with the story, "This afternoon I thought I might make dinner for us, and before taking a shower I went into the kitchen and turned on the oven to pre heat it."

"About twenty minutes later, I was just getting out of the shower when there was a loud banging on the door and I could hear people yelling something about a fire. I came running out from the bathroom in my underwear and found that I could hardly see my way through to the front door. The place was filled with stinky and hideous smelling smoke which seemed to be pouring forth out of the kitchen. I ran into the kitchen gasping for breath and tried to find the fire but there was none but I could now see that smoke was pouring from the oven.

"I threw open the door and tons of black smelly smoke gushed out. All the fire alarms were blazing and everyone was running around with fire extinguishers and yelling that someone was calling the fire department, oh no!"

"I quickly convinced the manager that I had it all under control and not to call the fire department, but just incase the neighbors stood ready and on guard with their fire extinguishers. I flung open all the windows and turned on the fans and after about an hour the smoke had cleared out. Now all my curious neighbors stood with me in the kitchen and all together we stood staring at what was now a melted sculpture of conglomerated plastic formed around grill inside the oven."

"I now realized that my lovely wife had put a number of her best Tupperware containers, along with assorted plastic bowls and a few other meltable items in the oven! The smell was horrible and I tried spraying the apartment with a little air freshener but it made the place smell like "Burnt Bar-B-Q Plastic Flowers" for about a month! Now, I spent the rest of the day chiseling off some of our melted wedding gifts from the oven rack and the bottom of the oven, and Pop, like you always told me, I was trying to ADJUST!"

"When my lovely bride arrived home, most everyone had gone but she was greeted with some strange laughs and a few jokes but still did not know what that awful smell was and it got worse as she came closer to our apartment. I greeted her at the wide open door and for sure she knew something was very wrong and her suspicions were confirmed as I took her to the oven and showed her the terrible mess. This is where I told her that she could no longer put anything except for food into the oven," there was a long pause here as the young man tried to put the right twist onto his Adjustment Phase!

"Go on son," our friend encouraged his boy.

"Well Pop, she stood there for a long time, I would say she was ADJUSTING and when she got done doing that, she informed me, that this was what she had always done and it would just be better for me not to turn on the oven unless I first looked into it …and how stupid could I be?"

"I know, I know," the son exclaimed, "it's really dumb but I think we have just entered into the stage of a chiropractic marriage, for the both of us have just been ADJUSTED!"

And with this admission, our friend had no choice but to nearly die laughing!

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