My Wife, My Life and Other Random Nonsense

By Richard Merrick

The author is a first-time book-writing person (he cant remember what a book writer is called). He has gathered a collection of short stories based on his true life and day-to-day experiences combined with only 99 percent made-up stuff.

These short stories have been created to bring laughter into your day and to give the reader a sense of just how much space is on the back of a toilet to store a book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Feb 14, 2018
• ISBN: 9781504396660

Richard Merrick

Richard Merrick is an old man who wanted his life documented before the memory of his past slipped through his aging and ever shrinking fingers. He resides in a small town in Ontario Canada with his beautiful wife Jacqueline. Richards inspiration for his stories comes from his 23 year old marriage and the fun and hardships that are a part of any life.

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-9665-3 (sc)

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Balboa Press rev. date: 01/31/2018

Contents

Weird, But Not Too Weird

My Wife Works Hard Too

My Drinking Buddy

Will You Take the Chance?

Best Driving Game Ever

Coping With NLT

She Is Curious

Its All in How You Word it

I Drink Beer

Spring Cleaning

She Disserves More

A Heads Up Would Be Nice

Oh Yea, That Makes Sense

It Was a Good Try

What to do

Home Reno.

No Sweat, I’ll Stop Calling

Tread Lightly

Steak Dinner.

Love Letters

I Can Spot One

Is Ok to Envy a Thing

Fun Dinking Game

Wait Your Turn

Didn’t Know What to Do

Ease into It

Take Care of Yourself

Time to Get Fit

Time Saver

A Game of Patience

I Quit

I Quit

Super Fun Vacation Time

Look Before You Speak

Free is Good

Spend Wisely

Get it Right

Corn Stand

Not What You Want to Hear

All it Takes is a Phone Call

Kidnapping 101

Silly Superstition

Pick Your Battles

Yard Work Sucks

Idol Threat

Make Note of Your Important Events

It Was Embarrassing

And I Will Keep Doing It

I Will Stop doing It

Get It Over With

That’s Right, VHS

No Good Deed

I Can Remember That

It Was Time

Like This Never Happened to You

Huge Fail

We All Have One

Sympathy

If You Have the Chance

To Literal

I Did My Best

Sore Loser

Good Name

Depressed

Rip Off

Good Argument

Roofing

False Advertising

It’s Not So Bad

What’s in It

Good Gift

Go U.S.A

Truth Be Told

Pain

That’s dumb

Didn’t See That Coming

The Experiment

Cleaver Girl

Food Fight Winner

Better Be Able to Back It Up

Don’t Blame Yourself

Weird, But Not Too Weird

I work hard for a living in a repair shop environment so I get quite dirty, grease, oil and all other types of muck. That being said I have my shower at night before my dinner and I like my shower hot and I take my time to grab a shave while I’m in there and I take my time as to not miss anything

No better time to have a beer…. Not too weird. right?

I take a big can of beer in with me and place it on the side of the tub behind the shower liner.

My wife doesn’t care that I take a beer in the shower and if you do the same thing then you are in good company and I hope that your wife could care less.

But does your wife make you use a coaster?

My Wife Works Hard Too

As I mentioned earlier, I work hard. My wife woks hard as well and she is on her feet all the live long day and many days she will come home totally exhausted.

One of her