Load takes one for the team and attends Wife’s company party.

The Wife’s holiday party was this last Friday and I wasn’t particularly looking forward to it. She works for a small division of a company that does crazy experiments on plants. She never tells me what they really do except that they do not use black magic in the manipulation of plant DNA which I don’t believe. Needless to say her coworkers are super smart (double PHD’s, Doctorates, Beauticians, etc.) and on a totally different wave length than Load. See, I can handle lawyers because though they are highly educated they still are just higher paid criminals but this crowd is all about the science. Some of you would say “just have a drink and loosen up”. No deal there. The Wife has sort of an authoritative position there and I had to be on my super-duper-best-behavior. Not only do I need to be there early, I had to stay till the bitter end when she wrote the final check. Don’t get me wrong, they are all nice people but I only see them twice a year and I don’t have much in common with them. I spent four and a half hours smiling and trying to search for small talk that wouldn’t get me in trouble. I discovered I don’t like schmoozing if there isn’t money involved.