Reviewed by Martine Bates Fairbanks
F. Max Croft. Rainer Publishing, 2016. 235 pp. (Paperback).
What a neat book this is. Max Croft, the happy husband in the title, has gifted readers with 31 short chapters on marriage — specifically, his 60-year marriage to the delightful Mary Ella.
Each chapter is a short, easy and entertaining read on its own, and each one has nuggets of wisdom about the marriage relationship. He introduces the book with a hilarious story about something that happened just after he and Mary Ella were married.
Their car stopped at a traffic light beside another car crammed with “no fewer than a hundred kids.” One of the women, noticing the “Just Married” sign on their car, “leaned her whole upper torso out the window. … Her hair was tightly rolled in curlers and a cigarette was hanging between two stained fingers while a multitude of kids were almost falling out the window leaning over her shoulder. With a raspy snarl … she spit out the words, ‘You’ll be sorrrrrry!’”
Sixty years later, Croft would like someone to tell the woman she was wrong.
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