Rules for marriage?

Are there rules in your marriage?

I'd like to start this with a short story. Early in our marriage, I had to go to Morgantown for an educational conference. I came home in the afternoon to pack and when I looked in the closet, I had no suits. I asked Linda where they were and she said she took them all to the cleaners. I was hot.

She just left the kitchen and walked out to the barn. Having to have the last word, I stammered and yelled out "You've got (pause) peanut butter for brains!" I found a jacket and slacks; packed and left.

Several months later, I went out to the barn to feed the horses and in the stalls were new feed boxes. I kept putting the task off and she was impatient. I walked into the kitchen and told her that the feed boxes looked nice and asked her if Mac (our neighbor) had come over and built them.

She said, "No, I got your tools out and did it myself."

I told her that they looked "Great!"

She replied, "Pretty good for someone who has peanut butter for brains, huh!"

We laughed!

Our rule has always been, "Never say anything to your wife or husband that you can't take back! If Linda remembered the "peanut butter for brains" remark for almost a year, think how long she would have remembered a really caustic remark?

Do any of you have "Rules?"