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If you’ve seen “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, you know that Larry David is constantly getting into arguments. He argues with EVERYONE – friends, business associates, even complete strangers! For Larry, he has a steadfast belief in what is right and what is wrong, and he will not back down if he is convinced he is right. Sometimes, it seems like he argues with people just for the sake of arguing.
For example, in an episode that I remember watching when it first aired on HBO, Larry refuses to tip a waiter at his country club beyond the 18 percent gratuity automatically included on the bill. The waiter tells Larry that “everyone” leaves an additional 2 percent to bring the total tip to the standard 20 percent. Larry begins arguing with the waiter saying that if the tip is supposed to be 20 percent, the automatic gratuity added to the bill should be 20 percent, which is a really good point! Larry then says he doesn’t want to tip extra because it would require him to do math to figure out the 2 percent:
Larry: “Don’t make me do math at the table.”
Waiter: “So you’re protesting math?”
Larry: “Exactly.”
I don’t argue with strangers the way Larry David does, but I have been guilty of arguing just because I couldn’t back down from my belief that I am right. My husband and I get into way more arguments than we should over my steadfast belief that sometimes, my parenting decisions are better than his. I know! But there are just certain situations where I am convinced I do things better than he does!
The one we used to argue about the most was brushing Kaitlyn’s hair. I know, what a stupid thing to argue about, right? But he’s never known what it feels like to have tangles brushed out of long hair, and I DO. So when he insisted he could handle brushing her hair and she would start crying because it hurt, I would start telling him he was doing it wrong, he would say I KNOW how to brush hair, I would say you don’t know how to get the tangles out with your fingers first before brushing, he would say the tangles are coming out as I brush, and we would just go back and forth and back and forth.
Finally, I got Kaitlyn’s hair cut a lot shorter, and I learned from the stylist what products to use on Kaitlyn’s fine, curly hair so it wouldn’t tangle so much, and it stopped hurting her when we brushed it. So the arguments over that stopped 
You can catch up with past episodes of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and hear Larry’s classic arguments by tuning in to the TV Guide Network five days a week! Now, usually when a commercial-free show gets moved to syndication, the episodes have to be cut down to fit in the commercials. Rather than do that, Larry David did something ingenious – the episodes stay the full 30 minute length, and then the rest of the one hour airtime has a panel of actors from the show discussing the episode. You learn lots of juicy secrets that way!
Watch “Curb Your Enthusiasm” five nights a week! Check your local listings here: http://www.curbweeknights.com/
disclosure: I have been hired by Warner Bros WBWord division to raise awareness for ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm.’
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