Chat with Deb—Catalogs, Part… Sorry, Kinda Lost Count

My wife and I flip through junk catalogs over breakfast. Does that make us bad people? Do we care?

Jack Herlocker
3 min readOct 31, 2023

We read things to each other that we find in junk mail. It’s a married thing. (Might just be us, come to think of it. Oh well!)

ME: “Stop buying plastic human skeletons for Halloween! Instead, invest in environmentally-friendly, locally-sourced, all-natural skeletons!”

DEB: And you can give them to your dog afterward! Wins all around! Sweatshirt: “Here I am! What are your other two wishes?” Think I could get away with that one, Jackster?

ME: You are always all three of my wishes, Debster! <smooch> “KNOWLEDGE is knowing a tomato is a fruit; WISDOM is not putting it in a fruit salad; PHILOSOPHY is pondering if a Bloody Mary counts as a smoothie.”

DEB: T-shirt: “One day you’re young, next day you have a favorite pharmacy.” That’s [friend of ours], she still drives to the pharmacy that was walking distance from her old house, even though her new place has a pharmacy on the corner. She doesn’t want to learn where everything is in a new store.

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Jack Herlocker

Husband & retiree. Developer, tech writer, & IT geek. I fill what’s empty, empty what’s full, and scratch where it itches. Occasionally do weird & goofy things.