Ladders are useful for intensive purposes. I hear.

It is a well-known tenant of management.

Does he or she think that A is like, the stepstool? Or is it like, the Farmer and the Ladder? I'm so confused.

I don't knoooooooow!

I mean, at least "another thing coming" makes a sort of sense (in its utter wrongness). What in heck could he/she think the "ladder" even means?!?!

I'm sorry, but you've got another thing coming. The thing is a knuckle sandwich. I swear this is how my mother used it

Does she just not enunciate her Ts? Probably a moo point.

I've now seen it in writing twice!

Jesse, I can't decide if I want to die on the "it's not even a homophone!" hill.

In a weird situation with friends, could use some Buffista advice. I have a friendquaintance (FQ). I hung out with his husband at a conference that we were attending. Hubby and I really hit it off; I remind hubby of his BFF who passed away. I was peripherally at the conference, so Hubby and I were hanging out and partying like rock stars. Get back from the conference, Hubby texts me two weeks later to joke that he's been out of touch because he had to detox for two weeks.

Hubby later invites me to a dance party at Pride this upcoming weekend in NY, offers to book me a room at their hotel with their points, sounds like a blast.

Monday, Hubby and I have dinner and drinks and firm up plans. FQ then messages me on Facebook the next day asking me to "be honest with him" and tell him if Hubby was drinking on Monday. He then says that Hubby is an alcoholic and needs to focus on sobriety, so the weekend is cancelled. I don't have Messenger on my phone, so I don't see the messages until late last night.

I punt and reply that I don't want to get in the middle, love them both. I also had already planned to be in NY for my friend's bday party, so I told him that I'd be in NY anyway and not to worry about me. I have not heard from Hubby, not sure I should reach out. And if Hubby just moves forward with the weekend, should I go?

On the one hand, if Hubby really is trying to get sober, I don't want to mess that up by being all "let's party for Pride". OTOH, if FQ has invented this whole drama by deciding that Hubby is an alcoholic, I don't want Hubby to think that I believe that he has a problem.

I don't know if he does, really. I've never seen him drink too much inappropriately, but I have seen him drunk a few times. He's told me a few embarrassing stories (but a lot of people have those)

On the third hand, if Hubby is in denial about his condition, I don't want to enable.

Ugh. What to do?

Oh lord. All this ladder and tenant and...argh. I've been working with PowerPoint slides and business people the last two days (which I don't normally do) and that's been bad enough! Don't make me worry about "peaking" their interest

Vortex, can you ask Hubby directly? Like "hey, your husband is saying you are sober, if so I didn't know that, let me know if I should change any plans, perfectly happy to do dinner instead of drink or whatever"? Or something along those lines? I mean the man could be in denial but neither you nor his husband can get him out of that.

I was thinking that I should just reach out to Hubby and ask if we are still on for this weekend.

Oh jeez, Vortex, that's tough. You could just let it ride and not see Hubby unless he reaches out.