This weekend was the fifth anniversary of my marriage to the most all-around awesome woman I’ve ever met. To celebrate, we left the kids with her parents and headed to Cincinnati for a trip to the Gap Clearance Center (jeans for as little as $5?!), Ikea, the Apple Store (where I walked out with a brand new computer — at no cost — as a replacement for mine, which didn’t make it through drowning, as I thought it had and mentioned in the previous post) and more. Before we headed to Ohio, though, I got into a telling conversation with her dad.

I was never sure if he’d seen my Obama bumper sticker, which I’d placed on my car a couple months ago after deciding he was such a better choice for president that I couldn’t leave well enough alone. Anyway, out of the blue he asked me how much Obama’s tax plans would hurt my business (I own a coffeeshop, for those of you who don’t know). I told him it wouldn’t affect me at all, and he looked at me in some disbelief. 

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