I saw this a few days ago in my facebook news feed and I couldn’t stop laughing!

I remember the first year Paane and I got married we moved from our one bedroom apartment to a basement apartment with two bedrooms because we were expecting our first baby. Paane worked endless graveyard shifts to be able to make ends meet and because I didn’t have my legal residency at the time, I couldn’t work to help him out. Anyways, I was gearing towards the last few weeks of my pregnancy and I was craving some Tongan food. Paane suggested that we stop by at his cousin’s wedding that evening to see if they had Tongan food.

So, we got ready, we drove to the wedding and lo and behold they had Tongan food. We sat with some of our friends at a table when the bride performed her Tongan dance. Paane looked at me as if to say, “Hey can I go fakapale?” [fakapale in Tongan is when you show love and support by putting money on the dancer]. I gave him the ‘eye’ as if to say no. He reached into his wallet and pulls out a $10 and at which point, my eyes just became wider than before – and if anyone was specifically looking at us, they would’ve seen smoke coming out of my ears and nostrils! Paane slowly stashed away the $10 and we just watched the bride for the remainder of her dance.

When the wedding was over, Paane went around to say goodbye to his family and friends and introduced me to a few of his family members who came from out of town. He leaned over and whispered, “Can we go say bye to the bride and groom?” I hesitated because they were still sitting at the front table and I didn’t want to waddle with my big stomach in front of everyone [who was still seated eating their food], so I just told him to go ahead without me.

We rushed home after the wedding because Paane needed to get ready for his graveyard shift and so we didn’t have time to stop at the gas station to put gas in the car. I knew he had $110 cash left in his wallet [since he didn’t get to fakapale with the $10], so I asked him to just stop by at the gas station on his way to work and put gas in the car. Paane looked at me almost with this puzzled look and said, “Okay, but with what money?” I told him to just use the $100 he had and he responded that he didn’t have it anymore!

As it turns out, while I was too shy to go with him to say goodbye to the bride and groom he felt ‘obligated’ to gift the bride and groom the $100 he had!

I mean, I must come off as a cold hearted cow right now, but in my head I was thinking, “If I almost had a heart attack with him trying to give away $10, what makes him think it was okay for him to give away $100?” It just was a whole bizarre situation to me, and I felt like I literally was going to give birth right then and there because I was just fuming mad at this point!

My poor husband went to work that night probably feeling overwhelmed at how that one hunnit situation escalated so fast. lol

But if you know my Husband, you’ll know that that is just who he is. We will forever go broke because of his generosity lol and I absolutely love that about him, but c’mon, sometimes the struggle is TOO real these days and if you got that one hunnit and fiddy dollars left to last you the next paycheck, you’d understand why I was fuming mad! lol