A date with Marek
even when running errands
always worth the wait
Cori MacNaughton
Marek and I spent the day running around getting errands done, which started off with me completely stressed out, as I had spent the better part of two hours on the phone with Epson, after our almost new all-in-one printer ceased to function after a firmware update.
It wouldn't have been so bad, had the people I was talking to actually listened to a word I was saying, but instead I was having to repeat the issue, over and over again, only to be transferred to another department to discover that the rep I had just been speaking with hadn't even bothered to inform the next rep why I was calling.
I'm generally a very patient person, but by this time I was ready to throw the printer at someone, but Marek saw the humor in the situation way before I did, and managed, as usual, to joke me out of my irritated mood.
Then he went on to do what he had to do, and I went to get examined for a new prescription for my contacts . . . and, after about a twenty minute wait, was told that our health insurance was no longer valid. More wasted time.
I growled part of the way to Nashville, but by the time I picked Marek up I was seeing the humor in the situation, which became even funnier when we discovered that our insurance had been valid all along, and whomever the eye clinic contacted at the company had their information wrong. Ah, the joys of miscommunication.
We then found a halfway decent Chinese restaurant in downtown Nashville, not bad, but nothing to write home about, completed our errands and returned home. And, once again, I was reminded how incredibly lucky I am to have Marek, and he is to have me, because we are SO well suited to one another, in so many ways.
Not least of which is that when one of us is in a bad mood, the other is always able to lift us out of it, as we are almost never in that place at the same time. And this has been true for the entire eleven plus years that we've been together.
The photo above of me and Marek was taken on one of our first dates, most likely by my friend Boo Ehrsam, using my Nikon N70 35mm camera. Though it does look a bit like he is thinking, "Who is this woman, and what the heck am I doing here?" ;-)
This was taken at the Oxygen Bar in Safety Harbor, Florida, during an art opening where I was both exhibiting my art and reading my poetry.
And, as I have posted before, I have my friend Boo Ehrsam to thank for that as well, for without her gentle but unrelenting nudging and prodding, I would likely still be an unpublished poet and writer, would probably never have shown my art publicly, and would almost certainly never have read my poetry publicly.
So if I could speak to my younger self, in my mid-to-late twenties, when I was despairing ever finding someone worthwhile to build a life with, I would counsel patience, because he simply hadn't left Poland yet!
And there were so many things in both of our lives that could have prevented us meeting, but ultimately, conspired to being us together, for which I am forever grateful.
We are each unconventional in our own but complementary ways, we have each other's backs, and we laugh all the time, especially when no one else around us understands what is so freaking funny. Which, invariably, makes it even funnier.
Who knew marriage could be this much fun??? ;-)
Marek misses the poetry readings, and has been encouraging me to do so again.
So, to all the Tennessee-based Steemians, any ideas for poetry-friendly venues in the Cookeville/Nashville vicinity?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
And I would love to hear your take in the comments.
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