My wife and I have attended a few weddings here in Hannover, Germany — like 3 or 4 — so you’d think by now I would have my wardrobe all figured out, but I absolutely do not. I wore my dad’s old, gray, 1970s suit (with suspenders) for every formal occasion from 2001 until, oh, 2014. I just hate shopping for clothes, man. I’ve got a weird build: broad shoulders, a short torso, long legs and Bill Clinton’s godawful bitch hips. I don’t need the reminder, especially while having my scrotum tickled by some dude measuring my inseam. God dammit, I’m getting mad just thinking about this again.
Anyway, my wife and I were getting dressed for a wedding not too long ago, and she insisted we wear matching outfits. At first she wanted me to wear a red tie to match her red dress, but I didn’t have any black dress pants; only blue jeans, black shoes and a white button-down shirt. A red tie would have meant wearing 4 different colors, so I talked her into letting me wear a blue tie. (Only 3 colors. That’s awesome, right?) So once we’d settled the issue of which tie I should wear, my wife took a good, hard look at all of my ties. I had one in each color, including black. This was apparently a good thing, because she nodded her head, shut the closet door and said:
“Perfect. You have every color you need, and black is always good for funerals.”
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Oh God, My Wife Is German. 
She’s pragmatic. Considering my Slavic ancestry, I am with your wife 100%.
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Good! :) I’ll pass that along.
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I like the way your wife thinks.
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Me too, Ms. V! :)
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I so get her. And if you had been British, you’d be wearing brown shoes to an ill-fitting black suit. Any colour suit, really, as long as it was ill-fitting.
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Haw haw!
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Not haw haw, more You must be kidding!
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I understand her. One of the things I look first on a business man is his tie. If it fits – excellent. Tasteful tie – better – both: quite fascinating man (even though if that’s the case usually their wives helped. LOL)
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