"Potential to be an old lady with a lotta cats"

......That's what my husband said to me out of the blue one day, "If I didn't marry you, you'd have the potential to be an old lady with a lot of cats" and he says it like he's saved me or something, I just replied "...so what's wrong with that and anyway why do you even think that!  Since I've met you the most cats you've seen me with is 3 and 3 is the most I'd ever want at one time"

     My husband loves film noir, sometimes I think he pretends he's one of those old detective guys with a fedora who saves Veronica Lake.  Not that I look like Veronica Lake....far from it, I am half Scot and half Maori which looks far from Veronica Lake.

     People ask me sometimes "where are you from?  I hear a little accent, where are you from?"  I reply "New Zealand" and they go "Oh ok, are you Maori? (and they mostly pronounce it wrong)" and I say "I'm half Maori and half Scot" and they have a kind of quizzical look on their face so I say "Did you see the movie The Piano?" and they say "Yeah I did, good movie, that was in New Zealand right?" then I say "Yeah, well, I'm a mixture of those 2 people, the Maori and the Scots" and they say "oooohhh yeah wow interesting"...as I drift off to the that scene in the movie of Harvey Keitel....