sorry, ben and jen, not Jeb. Who is bennifer? Jennifer garner, not sure if she's an actress and the enduring ben Affleck, the butt of south park jokes... My father frequently used to tell me as a child, "just wait till you have your own children"!!! (he was grown up, I was a child, groan). Later it made sense. Marriages are fiddly. Sometimes you wish you could just go to a shaka Zulu themed witchdoctor / marriage counselling service and they say: Ok let your wife spend the night with Namibia's b grade soccer team and you're even Stevens after that. Of course, it's not how things work.
apparently Jennifer is upset Ben is gambling so much, according to the rumor mill.... We can't offer any advice except gambling for money is generally considered sinful (but so is group sex/ fornicating outside marriage, etc)...
therefore let's talk about my games of chinchon (like gin rummy) with my grandma. It was 1997 and Clinton was in office. Real Madrid were pretty good at soccer. Every Friday I'd go visit my grandma at her apartment on doctor esquerdo street in Madrid near the O'Donnell subway station. Having missed out on the benefits of extended family like aunts, cousins, grandma, etc, til age 16, and generally residing on the opposite side of the planet to grandma 👵, it seemed like we were making up for lost years. The old lady was always very happy to see me and would always cook up a storm. Then it was straight down to gambling at five pesetas (un duro), about five cents, the hand, this was, of course, before the euro. Sorry can't give you many more details except the food was great and my grandmother was always very supportive on visits to her home. I recall she hated the socialist party, PSOE, with a passion, and wanted Felipe Gonzalez thrown into jail for corruption. If only she could see our universities in Australia and their tainted bribe money from communist china, e.g., from the afterlife. I imagine she is well ensconced in the disincarnate afterlife now although who knows, maybe she is already someone's baby or little kid somewhere.
here are some of the amusing and affectionate terms of endearment my grandma has thrown at me: "rooster of the night", and"conquerer", ha, ha, ha. With such a great lady for a mother, there's no telling how my mom turned out so badly! Maybe she should have married the rich pharmacist when she was younger, we told her so!
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