My husband broke one of our sacred rules of marriage: He ate at McDonald’s without me.
Now, let me explain. We have a rule to try and curb our addiction to McDonald’s, and that is you can only eat Macca’s at the airport.
Any time we are flying overseas or interstate, one of the bonuses is we eat Macca’s at the airport – whether it’s hotcakes, sausages and egg McMuffins for an early flight, or Quarter Pounders with a thickshake for later flights.
That’s a rule we’ve had for five or six years, and it just works.
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We recently moved to the Gold Coast, and now we have a McDonald’s that is only a three-minute walk from our house. We’ve had to be very strict and I’m proud to say we have never actually never ordered burgers from there (although, we do allow a late-night McFlurry every once in a while).
So, back to the marriage issue.
My husband has found a loophole, and I’m not happy about it. He works as a sound recordist with A Current Affair and the TodayShow weather, and with the stories they cover they are often filming at an airport.
So, Darren bought McDonald’s after his shift and said it wasn’t breaking the rules because he’d actually been in an airport. He even sent me numerous selfies to rub it in (which was pretty funny).
But I still say that is breaking the rules. It’s a slippery, slippery slope.
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Some of my friends have other tiny marriage rules that I totally understand:
“I can’t watch an episode of Yellowstone before I get home. All TV binges must be in sync.”
“You must like each other’s social media posts. A double tap on each other’s Instagram or like on Facebook posts is a virtual sign of saying ‘I got your back and I love you’.”
“We don’t buy expensive wine often, so I’ve learned not to open a bottle of special wine with one of my girlfriends instead of him. It’s special for a reason.”
“Don’t buy your partner kitchen appliances as a birthday present, even if she asks for them. Save those for just a random day of the week.”
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“I work interstate a lot, so we have a rule that we both send a good morning text to say we’re thinking of each other before the work day gets hectic.”
So, do you think my husband broke the rules? Or is an airport rule an airport rule and he stayed between the lines technically? What do you guys think?
‘Til Macca’s do us part…
(Just kidding, I love you Darren!)
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