I was chatting with a married lady about the rigors of travel.
"I do like seeing other places," I said, "but I am such a bad traveler. The rattling plane, the jet lag, my tendency to hurl . . ."
She blinked in puzzlement. "Oh, I'm like that too," she replied, "but my husband takes care of me." She made it sound like every woman has a man who would, of course, tenderly hand them a Dramamine with a considerate glass of twice-filtered water, followed by a tidy tuck-in.
To my embarrassment, I got a little teary-eyed.
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| I need a small army to cart me around. |
I am no romantic, and thanks to my powers of observation it is all too evident that not all marriages are alike.
Midrash Rabah on Bereshit / Genesis, chapter 39, paragraph 11:
ReplyDeleteRabbi Chiya taught:
…travel reduces three things: reproduction, money and fame…
CHRONOLOGY: Rabbi Chiya was active around the year 220 of the Common Era.
Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin, page 70A
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Princess Lea, if you want a travel buddy, it might be helpful to reveal your departure location and your destination location -- if you want to.
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Mr Cohen. if you were just trying to help you wouldn't've posted your first two comments...
ReplyDeletePrincess Lea - I am facing a similar issue, in that I want to take a couple of vacations, but can't figure out where to go...and have no one to help make that decision with or to go with...
WM: Not quite the same quandary. I can't go anywhere without a posse; you merely require a destination. Oh, the places you'll go!
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