My wife did it to me again on Valentines Day.
That’s right she tricked me with that old worn out talk about how we don’t have the money to be spending on gifts for special occasions such as birthdays and Valentines Day. It’s a story that I’ve heard (and fallen for) more than one time over our 20-plus years of marriage.
And you would think by now that I would have stopped falling for it, but she made a pretty convincing argument that since we just had to purchase a new washing machine, we weren’t buying anything for each other on Valentines Day.
So I didn’t get her anything. You know the rest of the story. That’s right, come Saturday morning she gave me a pair of slip-ons to wear around the house and money to purchase tokens for car washes.
She said it wasn’t much, but it was more than I gave her (insert nothing here).
I managed to salvage a little bit out of the day by agreeing to take her to a place that I have only ate at a couple of times since I moved to Jackson County back in the summer of 1986.
It’s amazing how some things just never change because the double cheeseburger (smothered in fried onions) I had at The Brick in Jonesville during our romantic getaway tasted just as good as the first one I had there.
If you’ve never been to The Brick you need to eat there one time unless you’re a vegetarian.
The menu is simple: hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chili, soup, potato chips and of course, beer.
I’ve been telling my wife for years that we need to simplify our lives more, leaving with less and all that good stuff.
You don’t have to put a lot of thought into what you’re going to eat at The Brick. You can’t say that about some restaurants.
The place was packed, however, and its not hard to see why. Both the food and the atmosphere were great.
Sometimes less really is more.