What would you choose?

This made me smile. One of my wife’s friends married a man 12 years older than her. He already had a son with his first wife, who is now 12. The friend is 25, and cannot stand her new step son. She vacillates constantly between wanting a baby and going on holidays. He makes no secret of the fact that he doesn’t want any more children, ever. His success at keeping her happy thus far has involved them going on lots of exotic holidays, buying her a new car etc etc. She decided last week that she was ready to become a mother. I can only imagine the problem this has given her husband. To be fair to him, he’s come out fighting. No holiday or car was going to placate her this time. He was touched by genius: he’s buying a hot tub instead of them having a baby.

A hot tub in Manchester, more specifically a hot tub in a dodgy part of Manchester (earlier this year they had their garden fence stolen), with winter rapidly approaching. Madness.

But it still made me smile – I can’t think what he’s going to come up with next time!