Ok, this post is really about what my husband DOES NOT DO as much as what he does.
He is a plumber. He owns his business and luckily stays busy enough for me to be a SAHM. BUT: What does he do when he returns home after a long day? Not much!
I don’t mind the cleaning and cooking and all that. I especially don’t mind because he doesn’t say anything when it goes undone for weeks on end until he goes to work one morning commando style and with no socks. THEN he requests the laundry get done. I cannot complain.
BUT BUT BUTTTTTT: My husband, DOES NOT plumb a darn thing in this house. My kitchen sink is clogged? Yeah, for MONTHS. My bathroom sink drain smells suspiciously like poo? He’ll get to it. My water heater that works 50% of the time? Yeah, after literally at LEAST SIX MONTHS of complaining that he needed to replace the thing- the water heater went out on CHRISTMAS!!
So, luckily, he IS a plumber and was able to rig some shiz to get us through the weekend- and is now replacing the water heater.
I was just sharing because A. I have been telling him this needed to be done for MONTHS and B. When people ask what my husband does for a living, and I tell them- they always say “oh, you’re so lucky! You must have a nice bathroom/kitchen/running water/someone to unclog the toilet!” And to that I say “NO FREAKING WAY!”
It is a literal LAW that whatever your husband does for a living he does not want to come home to continue doing it. Especially when that job includes manual labor for 10+ hours a day.
So, my water heater is being fixed- but at the last possible second at the WORST possible time, financially.
Gotta love it.
December 28th, 2009 - 1:00 PM
You and Danielle should commiserate. Having said that, losing internet access or access to the printer for days on end is not quite as bad as cold showers or poo-scented sinks.
Then again, in the process of fixing the dishwasher this weekend, I appear to have broken the garbage disposal. It may have been better if I had left it alone for six months.
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December 28th, 2009 - 2:18 PM
Darryl has had a dented bumper on his truck for about 3-4 years ..enough said LOL
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December 28th, 2009 - 3:09 PM
you should see our flower bed. WEEEEEEDS and grossness abound. Scot has maybe landscaped our yard area once in 4 years. when we tell people he does landscaping and they are at our house, they must think he is a super shitty one.
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December 28th, 2009 - 5:39 PM
See- totally the truth. Three confirmations- one being from an actual real-life husband!!
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December 28th, 2009 - 10:34 PM
Completely agree with that law. People I know always make the comment “doesn’t your husband own a detail shop?” when they see the sorry state of my car.
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December 30th, 2009 - 3:32 PM
My grandmother always used to say “The shoemaker’s children have no shoes” so apparently this trend has been going on for a long ass time.
Since my husband operates a nuclear reactor at work, he can’t exactly NOT operate a nuclear reactor at home…so he compensates by just doing nothing in general.
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