Historic significance, and all that

So, I am thinking about going to the inauguration next Tuesday. It won’t be easy, I know.

A Facebook friend reminds me that there will be one Port-A-Potty for every 6,000 attendees. “You sound like my husband,” I tell him.

Between you and me, it would be a lot easier to imagine this trip without my husband. He tends to get nudgy in a crowd. In fact he gets nudgy when we leave the house. And there is a mathematical equation (I don’t know what it is) that proves that one husband is equal to 3,000 strangers in the amount of emotional energy they require of any given wife. Double that when taking a trip outside the immediate perimeter of one’s home.

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