Just a little silliness for today’s post

This is a story about milk and marriage. You might not think they have anything in common, but with this post I hope to convince you otherwise.

First, let’s look at milk. Whenever I buy milk in the grocery store, I always look at the expiration date to make sure that it won’t go sour before I get it home. If the milk goes sour before the expiration date, I can take it back to the store for a refund.

With the milk story done let’s go into a seemingly different direction. Today, there are more and more young people who are choosing for whatever reason not to have children. That is probably a good thing, as we are at the point or approaching it where the earth has too many people. Along with the trend of no children, fewer people are opting to get married.

That brings me to how milk and marriage are related. Marriage should be like milk in that it should have an expiration date. When that time comes both parties have to consider whether to sign on again or to let the marriage expire. To make this as simple as possible there should be a set of general practices of how to make the split officially.

My hero Will Rogers had a thing or two to say about this topic. Here is one of them

“I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain’t.”