Alan went to see his podiatrist Dr. Baird, and right next door is MODELLS. What were they selling today??? Mini-trampolines.

Alan walks in the door with this great big thing and says “ooh, look what I got?” All I saw was the word BOUNCER on the box and I said “you’re not serious, we live on the second floor, over two 80 year old people. You want to BOUNCE on top of them?”

He replies “well, we’ll place it on the exercise mat”. I said “the whole house will shake”.

Didn’t matter what I said: He was determined to BOUNCE his way to being Rocky Balboa.

This one is called The Body Burner. Oh, and this is important!!! Ask me what he paid for it??? The box said $45.00. Not a bad price for this size mini-trampoline, I thought to myself. I go: “oh, you paid only $45.00, wow”. He smugly said “no, I paid $10.00.

I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN IMMEDIATELY WHY HE PAID $10.00 FOR THIS THING!!! The thing comes folded up and you have to kneel on it and open it up until it clicks into position and locks.

So it comes with a dvd that EXPLAINS HOW TO OPEN UP THE TRAMPOLINE!!!

Oh, sure, after two hours on our knees trying to open the thing up, (it wouldn’t open) I call the 800 number only to be told that because we didn’t have it shipped to our house, they can’t talk to us on the phone”.

So Alan says to me “Stand on it and I’ll open it up” Stupid me, I stand on it, I go flying on the floor spraining my wrist and cutting my knee. That’s when I let lose with words that no Christian woman would say.

Then he tries to do it and he almost falls on the floor.

I simply got up and said quite distinctly “You will take this back to Modells the next time you see Dr. Baird”. You will get your $10.00 back. If they don’t give it back to you, I don’t care if you leave it, you will not bring this THING back into the house.”

If I ever see a trampoline again, it will be too soon!! This thing was not stable, not secure and I wouldn’t go on it for all the tea in china. It even came with a Stability Bar.

All this for $10.00???? Yeah, I bet this has been bought and returned so many times, I can’t count. Alan is keeping away from me as I put betadine on my knees. I will have to use a wrist splint too.

I know he wants to exercise, be healthy etc. Just now he said to me “I’m going to the gym tomorrow”. I said ‘Please do!!!!”


melody