'I have to go to town, ' she said, 'We'll catch t...

'I have to go to town, ' she said,
'We'll catch the early bus.'
She'd overdrawn her credit card,
I knew - she always does!

I groaned and then I moaned a bit,
I'm just a country clod,
'I hate the crowds in town, ' I said,
'I'll stay here, on my tod! '

'You'll come with me, ' she said again
And used that piercing look,
The one that gets her everything
She wants, by hook or crook.

So there I was, adrift in town
While she went to the Bank,
To sort out her finances with
Some guy she knew as Frank.

I hung about outside, and watched
Her enter through the door,
Like some black hole in space, I thought,
And shuddered, like before.

I hated banks, and managers,
And credit cards and schemes,
They'd offered me a credit card
But I said - 'In your dreams! '

I wouldn't touch them with a pole,
I just believe in cash,
But wives are like some aliens
Straight from the planet, 'Splash! '

They love to shop, and flash the card
And buy their nicky-nacks,
While we just moan and humour them
Then pay the money back.

And so I stood and waited there,
My patience growing thin,
She seemed to take forever in
That bank, so dark within.

I always knew she'd be a while
She talks a lot, my wife,
She likes to tell the tellers all
The story of her life.

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