I know how hard it is for other celebrity couples like Bradgeleina and the Beckhams. It’s an awesome responsibility and we do our best to live up to the expectations of our adoring fans.
I am of course referring to the people from the Young Strokes Club.
What is the Young Strokes Club?
It’s a support group in Wellington to help out young people who have suffered a stroke. We qualify as members because my wife had a massive stroke at the age of twenty nine. It took out most of her cerebellum, so she now only has half a brain (don’t tell her I said that!).
Tonight was the club’s annual Christmas dinner. They like to get things out of the way early on, so they have more time for dribbling into their tea over the Christmas break.
As I said, we are the hot young power couple, and as such we timed our arrival to perfection – twenty minutes late, so as to make a grand entrance. We were the second ones there.
See what I mean? We try hard, but sometimes we just don’t get the support we need. But eventually the rest of the crowd shuffled in and sat down.
When I say shuffled that’s what I mean – these people have all had strokes remember?
And so the conversation over dinner ranged from, what phones to get when you’re hard of hearing. So, senior citizen phones like the Doro phones proved popular. To how many cats you’ve had and what they died of.
My favourite question of the evening was asked by the club president, who asked me ‘How do we get you young folk out to vote?’
I’m over fifty!
This gives you some idea of the average age of the young people in the club. Yes, we are the young hot power couple.
When they were sitting around a while ago trying to come up with a name for the club, my wife suggested ‘Thunderstruck’ and their theme song could be the song of the same name by ACDC. She received a bunch of blank stares and they moved on to a slightly less young sounding name, with no theme song.
It’s now 9.30pm and we’re back home and ready for bed.
As I have said, it’s a hard job being the hot young power couple. It really takes it out of you. But don’t worry. We’ll be back again next year, just as fabulous, and still thirty years younger than everyone else.