Lacking my own husband to do manual labor about my house, I have taken to borrowing my friends' husbands.
Saturday night, my friend Wendy and her 3-year-old son Brandon came over for dinner, and, at my request, they brought with them Steve - Wendy's husband.
In the space of about two hours, Steve installed a new valve in my leaking toilet, removed the battery casing from and installed batteries into Drew's Tonka fire truck and replaced the rotor in my weed eater.
For this, Steve earned himself a grilled chicken dinner and two jars of green beans from my mom's garden. And my eternal and undying gratitude.
When I discussed my plans for Steve with Wendy prior to Saturday, she sounded a little bit skeptical.
"Steve's not really...well...he's not really the 'handy' type," she explained.
Wasn't she surprised? As they were leaving, I heard her say, "OK bud, what about my to-do list that I've been giving you for the last six months? Huh? Huh?"
Oops. Didn't mean to get Steve in trouble.
But hey, now that Wendy knows he can fix stuff, her life just got a whole lot easier, didn't it? (not his life necessarily, but hey...he has the advantage of being able to fix stuff. If you are born with such an advantage, it is your duty to share your gifts with everyone else who is completely incompetent in that area)
Now, she can say things such as, "You fixed Amy's toilet. Why can't you fix ours? Huh?"
This is why I need to enlist the aid of other friends' husbands, because once they fix stuff for me one time and their wives realize how handy they are and start nagging them, I won't be able to use them again. (because they'll be too busy fixing stuff for their wives, and, quite possibly, because they'll be a little bit pissed off at me.)
So, to all of my friends, I expect a written report e-mailed to me within five business days listing your husband's areas of home and vehicle maintenance expertise. That should give me enough to go on for at least the next few months, at which point I will need to get all new friends.
1 week ago

No comments:
Post a Comment