This is funny – The next time you and your spouse/partner get into an argument and they are really ripping, grab a towel and drape it over their shoulders. Announce loudly, “Now you are Super Mad!”
They will either break out laughing, Or kill you!
When a man says he will do something you can be sure he will do it. There is no need to keep reminding him every six months.
The problem with trying to do something is that there is always something that needs to be done first.. Today I was going to vacuum the house. Eazee-Pezee, right? Hardly!
As I started in the hallway the plug pulled out of the wall socket for the lebenty-lebenth time. Arghh! I had been promising myself I would fix it for a very long time and decided that today was the day.
Because I'm such a good planner I already had a new socket. In fact, I had several of them for all of the other sockets I planned to replace. Gathering up my tools I went downstairs to turn off the circuit so that I didn't light myself up like a dim bulb. Then I went back upstairs, plugged in a desk lamp, and called my dear sweet wife to watch when the lamp went off so I'd know when I switched off the right circuit. Back downstairs to the panel and start switching things off. It was, of course, the last switch I checked.
Back upstairs I dismantled the switch and connected the new one. I worked my way through school wiring fire control panels on nuclear submarines so this was pretty elementary. Task completed. I tightened down the face plate and went downstairs again to switch on the circuit. No sparks or flames so job well done.
Back to the vacuuming, but first – set all the clocks that had been reset when I turned off the circuits looking for the right one.
Now, back to the vacuuming. Looking good until the rotary brush got tangled with the fringe on one of the area rugs. Happens all the time – just untangle it and hit the little red Reset button. But first - go find a small pointed instrument to push on the button.
Found it but the system is not resetting so put it on the kitchen counter and disassemble it. No problem, I took apart six cylinder, four valve, double overhead cam motorcycle engines so this is a piece of cake. Nothing looks wrong except that the light bulb is burned out.
Downstairs again to look up the bulb and order it on Amazon. Why is it that one bulb costs $9 but two bulbs cost $10.35? Six for only $13.50 as if I thought the machine would ever last that long.
Back upstairs to button
up the attachment and get to work. Ding-Dong. Oh look, the friends I
was cleaning the house for have arrived. Oh well, They don't care and I can always vacuum
next week.
Make my day, tell a friend about this blog!
Have been spying on me... except for the friends part. No one visits me. Does that mean I don't have friends? Or does it mean something else?
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