Rule of Marriage #10

My wife and I were getting ready to go meet some friends this weekend. I grabbed my usual quasi-English professor garb: blue jeans, brown sketchers, and a dress shirt. I was buttoning up the final button of my blue button-down shirt when I walked back into the bedroom. My wife, her face aghast, looked at me and said:

"Isn't that too much blue?"

I glanced at my outfit and shrugged my shoulders.

"Yeah, that's too much blue," she repeated, "your shirt and jeans...too much blue."

Rule of Marriage #10:

I am now at the fashion mercy of my wife. Her whimsical, "I-think-it's-too-much-blue" translated: That's a horrible outfit and I want you to change before I'll be seen in public with you.

Back to the dressing room.