The Couch Potato

Tony is treading on thin ice.

The Couch Potato

 

By Elton Camp

 

When Tony gets home from work each day,

He always has the very same thing to say

“Honey, I am sleepy and as tired as I can be.

When you get supper ready, please call me.”

 

He forgets his wife worked seven to three

And that she is as much exhausted as he

He holds to his father’s old saying as true

“The housework only a woman should do.”

 

Tony’s mother labored hard, never for pay

Back then things could often work that way

Two incomes now are required to make a go

Tony chooses to ignore that reality though

 

What was fine years ago for his Mom and Dad

Only serves to make his wife extremely mad

After supper, he will lay on the couch more

She does the dishes as she always has before

 

“Honey, please don’t rattle the plates so much.

Cause I’m watching reruns of Starsky and Hutch.

And you will be quiet, I certainly have no doubt,

Whenever you get ready to take the garbage out.”