At Beck/Arnley, I thought I had a career job and on June 21, 1986 I married and we had a White Wedding. I can use this particular card because my wife gave it to me. I am not the one who declared her a bitch. She declared herself a bitch. It was lighthearted humor between husband and wife. She gave me other left field trinkets and/or commentaries of similar nature. In social communications, I think it would come under "acceptance." You wouldn't understand, "It's a Hilton Thing." I think the closest I would ever come to using the word would be in this context:

Wifey: "Are you calling me a bitch?!?"
Hubby: "No ma'am, even if you were a bitch, I wouldn't call you one!"

MOPAR man had a different view on all of this and said that he would have the car in front of the church with the engine running and pointed "West".

I was happy, for a while, although I was working by day and going to engineering school at night which was stressful on the marriage. There were other stressors but they are not open to discussion. Shortly after getting married I found myself laid off. Beck/Arnley was bought out by a huge world auto part conglomerate who also bought the competitor, World Parts. The new corporation decided to operate out of the World Parts office and built a 200,000 sq ft warehouse. We were not made an offer to move to Tennessee because of the difference in cost of living. It was the first time I was let go from a job.

While I was unemployed, I walked into an aviary just to look. We always had parakeets as kids. My sister had three yellow English Budgies all named "Woodstock." I had a beautiful blue baby parakeet but we also had "Sam" the cat. Sam got my baby parakeet because of my own mistake. I swore to never have another bird unless I could ensure it was safe.

A baby lutino cockatiel fell in love with me and I took her home. I know she was a baby because the pet shop owner was reluctant to sell her because she was still weaning twice a day. I was unemployed and two more weeks of weaning a parrot while job searching was not a problem. She lived 15 years and we lived in 7 different homes and three different states during that period.

In the mean time, I continued earning my degree in Engineering Science degree at Farmingdale. I landed a new job a few months later with Interco Parts Corp, a Beck/Arnley competitor. This is what the mid-career never revealed. Us young folks were direct competitors and we worked for less money making us serious threats. I worked at Interco for years while going to school at night.

Although everything is an argument, everything, at the same time everything is temporary, everything.