GOLDEN BALL AND CHAIN :

We infants in men's clothing (Leonard Pitts, Jr., August 30, 2002, Jewish World Review)

They tell me the modern marriage is a partnership, a concept with which I have no disagreement. What I struggle to understand is why, where the family purse is concerned, my partner's vote carries so much more weight with me than my own. Am I really so much more likely to be seduced by useless gadgetry? Lose my mind at the promise of more watts per channel? Fall in love with a pretty faceplate?

Don't answer that.

"When I get married," my son announced, "I'm going to say, 'Look, baby, I'll buy whatever I want to buy.'"

"No you won't," I told him.

And my cocky son, who never believes anything I say, who thinks I know nothing about anything, considered that with a rueful smile.

"Yeah," he said, "I know."

The wife actually argues that we should rent movies rather than just buy the DVD. Women... Posted by Orrin Judd at August 31, 2002 09:33 AM