Conversations with My Husband (Sample #1)

This morning in the bathroom while I was brushing my teeth and my husband was shaving and reading the sports section, he posed a question to me.

"Who are the only three players on the Heat to never be a part of March Madness?" he asked.

"Hmm," I said as toothpaste burbled out of my mouth. "Well, the first one is easy, it's LeBron, because he didn't go to college."

(I will pause here for a moment, because I know all of you ladies out there are thinking: "What a lucky woman! Her husband is obviously a romantic." Yes, it is true.)

My analysis continued: "Definitely not D. Wade, because he was at Marquette. Not Chalmers, he hit that big winning shot."

I tried to gauge Ricky's silence over the buzzing of his electric razor. I took it as a sign that I was correct so far and continued.

"Norris Cole has the whole green van thing, the one that went with him to different championships, and he went to college four years, so not him. Um, Udonis and Mike Miller were teammates at UF, so..."

Here Ricky jumped in: "So you have your answer on them. If you have two NBA players on the same college team, you know they were in the tournament. As a matter of fact, they were in the Final Four."

I was a bit perturbed by his interruption. I hadn't quite gotten there about Udonis and Miller, but perhaps Ricky was getting impatient with the slow pace of my analysis. My mind started wandering to the centers. Birdman (Chris Andersen) had joined the team mid-season.

"You know, I don't really know much about Birdman," I said.

"That's No. 2," Ricky said, once again a bit more quickly than I would have liked. "He went for one year of junior college. The last one is Rashard Lewis. He came right out of high school, like LeBron. Remember, that's why they said he's already been in the league 15 years."

I hadn't actually remembered that, and I don't think I was ever going to guess Rashard Lewis. But Ricky and I had finished our grooming, and, you know, these romantic moments can only last so long.