Marriage is tough

Years ago it became apparent that money is one of the big things couples fight about of course one of the two big things couples fight about. The other one starts with an s and ends with an X. And so it just seemed like it would be a good thing to eliminate arguing over at least one of those things and it turned out to be money well at one point my wife decided to put that to the test besides the fact that she didn't even know that we werent arguing about money but she decided maybe we were going to argue about money after all she ran the budget we had an old beater car that was the commuter car we kept it pretty much full drove it back and forth to work . work was only a couple of miles away so it wasn't any big deal. one week she got short on a budget and said just driving another week with whatever gas you got in there so at the end of the next week was down to about a half. That time she said just drive it another week. It drove another week down to a quarter she said drive nother week so got to the middle of the week it was down on the red line. I got home and said well it's down on the red line. she sat quietly and didn't say anything I said here's what I'm going to do when it runs out of gas I'm going to roll over to the side of the road lock it and walk home. She pulled out ten bucks. She never did that again. It's not completely clear what the point of the whole exercise was.