Pet’s Valentine’s Day card lands Nick in doghouse with wife
APRANKSTER husband says he was in the doghouse after buying a Valentine’s Day card for his DOG, but not for his wife.
Nick Fisher, 55, said he was less than popular after professing ‘You’re the best thing that’s happened in my life’ to cute Teddy.
Nick, of Houldsworth Square, Reddish, who says all Valentine’s and anniversary cards are a rip-off, added that the revelation sent his wife into a rage.
He said: “Not only has she got the hump with me because I didn’t get her a Valentine’s card, she’s got the hump with me even more so because I got the dog one instead!
“And when she read what I’d written inside the card for Teddy, she flung the card at me, and stormed out of the front door and went to work. That’s because inside I put, “You’re the best thing that’s happened in my life - I love you more than the kids and wife.” Nick, who buys and sells property and is a writer, admits he has never bought a Valentine’s Day card for his wife as he says they are a waste of money.
He said: “I don’t do anniversaries at all. “It’s a bit of a rip-off. “Whoever invented must have been a flower seller or a chocolate maker.
“I don’t know how I’m going to make it up to her.”
The dad-of-two says they wouldn’t even have cute Teddy, a three-year-old cross between a Maltese and Bijon Frise, if it wasn’t for his family pestering him to get a pet.
He said: “I didn’t really want one to be honest, but he’s taken a shine to me.
“He plonks himself in my lap and it’s a bit of an ongoing joke with my wife and kids.”
And Nick’s daughters Ella, 16, and Lily, 12, were also less than impressed by the joke.
He said: “Even the kids aren’t talking to me. So it looks like tonight I’ll be having a romantic meal for two sharing a tin of Pal with Teddy and then spending the night with him in his dog bed.
“I think my wife has got a nerve to moan actually because she didn’t get me a card either - at least Teddy got me one!”
Nick is also known for his writing, including a selection of rude anecdotes about events, pranks and funny antics, many of which take place in Stockport.
And last year he jokingly advertised Marmitesmeared underpants as a humorous steering wheel lock idea on eBay for £8.99 as a thief deterrent.