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Before I get down and dirty with all the things we saw at the Fryeburg Fair let me point out a few things we didn’t see.
We didn’t see the agricultural expo or the natural resources building ….
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Because my husband met a man who knew our farming neighbor and had to talk to him for 37 minutes.
We didn’t see the craft show or tour the fiber arts building…
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Because my husband struck up a 24 minute conversation with this nice volunteer who was rebuilding the motor on a vintage harrow.
And we didn’t see the rabbits, goats, llamas or chickens….
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Because my husband met a fellow Marine who was stationed in Beirut, Lebanon during the same awful time. It was the ‘83 bombing that killed 241 servicemen, the largest loss of Marines in a single day since the Battle of Iwo Jima. This was a sad conversation and one I didn’t interrupt… but still.
You know my husband, it wasn’t brief.
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River's world..... 
Your husband seems social and introverted at the same time.
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Introverted? Not in the least….
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How DARE you contradict me? I’ll talk to your manager and then I’ll fix YOU, my good woman!
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Someone has to stand up to your tyranny. It might as well be me…
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There’ll be a letter in the Times about this, in the morning!
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So Motormouth prevented you from enjoying many things ? 🙄
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Basically, yes. It’s a two and half drive over there so we didn’t arrive until 10:30. There’s so much to see every minute counts.
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Guess you need to hit the Fair by yourself in the future or just split up whenever you go.
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I’m thinking an electric cattle prod to shock him and get moving might work.
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I like to talk. I’d talk with him as long as he was willing.
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Then it’s a good thing you weren’t there…
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37? 24? You’re very precise there 🤣
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I spend a lot of time standing around waiting for my husband. He thinks he only talks for 5-10 minutes so I like to prove him wrong.
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I cannot imagine how much patience it takes for you to tolerate your husband’s penchant for babbling with strangers. You are a saint.
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Hardly. But he’s such a good egg in every other respect it’s hard to be mad…
❤️
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Your husband reminds me a little of my dad. He stops to chat with so many people. I honestly love this.
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I always tell myself I’ll miss this when he’s gone, but when time is of the essence it can be a little annoying.
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I understand that completely. 🤣
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Maybe say ” I’ll meet you back here in 24 minutes” and hope for the best?
You’re the queen of patience. 🙃
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That’s what I should do. But he has a habit of wandering off…
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Well, it’s not like you didn’t expect this to happen right? But I can see you getting a bit miffed at the fact that he’s a sociable guy at a fair you should be looking at livestock. No chickens, wth?
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Sadly, no…
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Oh no, you missed the bunnies!! You guys gotta get walkie talkies so you can split up.
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I did.
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And we have cell phones…. the problem is dragging him away from strangers and ending the conversation. If I’m not physically there it to end it, it would go on till sundown.
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Yes, but walkie talkies would be so much cooler! You could have trucker code names and interrupt him in cool ways, like “Breaker, breaker! Mojito Maven calling Chatty Cathy. Emergency in the pig barn – stat!” Nobody would mind being interrupted with something like that (except your husband, once he gets to the pig barn and sees that there’s no emergency).
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I like the way you think. But I believe I’d prefer Mistress Mojito.
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Yeah, and maybe your husband would prefer Chatty Charlie…
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You could have wandered off by yourself, seen all those things, and come back. He’d probably still be mid-conversation with somebody.
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True. But I’d have to drop a tracker on him, he tends to wander.
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If I were you, I’d wander off and hope he finds me. or not. 😜😜
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I do wander around a little, but I always keep him in sight lest he find another person to talk to.
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