So It Goes: Three simple words

There has been an ongoing rhetoric between my husband and myself to find the three top things we like about each other.  I have no trouble rattling off three things multiplied by 10, but my husband is not quite as verbose as I am and struggles.

I think at one time, he came up with the word ‘nice’.  Perhaps it was my instant dismissal of both the word and his lack of effort in coming up with the word that may have stopped him dreaming up any more fairly banal adjectives.  I feel sure people marry other people because they are more than just ‘nice’.

So here we were again, with a bit of time on hands playing the three-word game that has woven its way through our marriage like a jester poking his head in to see what’s going on.  

My husband came up with the word ‘carable’.  Having dissed his earlier adjective, I was slower to slam this one, but I did give it just a half a point in the three-word target.  I took it as meaning ‘caring’ and perhaps he meant that, but I wasn’t so sure when he came up with descriptive word two – ‘cool’.  He told me it went with ‘carable’.

At this point I told him that neither word could count.  Because if you were caring (or ‘carable’) you wouldn’t really be cool.  He instantly changed temperature and switched to ‘warm’.  

So, I’m ‘warm’ and ‘carable’.  I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt and count this as a collective one point.

I pressed him further and he said ‘funny’.  On further prompting (keen to finally make it past the triple-bunger finish line), he continued with ‘hilarious’ and ‘comic’.  I thought he might be pushing his luck and said that ‘funny'; could count as number two.

Having touted out ‘carable’, ‘warm’ and ‘funny’, he started going through what I saw were old musical song lists for the next burst.  He came up with delicious, delectable and delightful which, given that we’ve just seen Nice Work If You Can Get It, were suspiciously Gershwin for me.  Besides, delectable?  Am I an icecream?

He has a little longer to reflect on the third word.  I don’t think it’s asking too much.  Some wives ask for jewelry. And right now, I am thinking that diamonds might speak louder than words.