Posted on 02/20/2021 3:01:46 PM PST by tbw2
The first version was Whole Foods but my mom offered an improvement.
I’m pretty sure that he had to cave-in on one chore - he had to get his own beer from the refrigerator. I mean it took his wife quite awhile to do the shoveling.
Now there is one guy who will not be getting any sugar tonight from his wife.
That reminds me of how my husband wound up doing the ironing. I would iron his shirts and handkerchiefs. But, then he’d go back and “touch up” a place or two he thought I missed. Then, he began “touching up” the kids’ clothes. Shoot fire, ain’t no sense the two of ironing the same clothes.
I do the ironing for my Church clothes. But then I’m a bachelor.
This is silly!
An only child, I started to help by 8 I am sure. Total responsibility by 12-13 years old.
When I married it was my job. I got up early and shoveled and returned inside to fix breakfast. Then went out to back out the car and warm it up for him. This great man appreciated it and I stayed home for 22 years until the last went off to college.
I wouldn’t trade those years with children and volunteer work for all the money in the world.
May I add that it was Northern NY right on Lake Ontario and 200-300 inch winters were normal. He passed away from a weak heart over 20 years ago but at 85 I am still strong and pushing a lawnmower in warmer climate.
Sorry I have to go. I need a shower before I fix some dinner. I am busy painting the house this week.
Your remark about starting habits also applies well to dogs, especially large breeds like Labs and Great Danes, both of whom I have been privileged to be a dog daddy to. It takes only one or two times for a Prescriptive Dog Right to develop.
Check out post 46.
Similar story!
Late last year.
Great man and the stories around his wife where wonderful!
My wife grew up on a farm with a family with four daughters (no sons).
She can split wood with an axe—and she is very good at shoveling snow.
It is actually a cool “together time”—and good for a lot of laughs.
” Real men have to wait for the wife to be in the mood”
My wife is a Vulcan
When we were drowning in medical debt, I often got needed household appliances as Christmas gifts (including a vacuum).
I was grateful for them.
Yes, I know. And it is surprising how many commenters don’t realize that it is parody ...
So she could wash his car in winter without falling, he said. :)
I knew from the title that this was the Bee.
I’m afraid I encourage my husband and son to exhibit toxic masculinity. They mow the lawn, shovel snow, and scrape ice off the car. When I look helpless, they come to assist.
I, um, just never realized how toxic this situation is before.
And look out the door and ask "Why are you shoveling? You know it is only going to snow some more!" (as you go back inside for more coffee......)
The whole genre wouldn’t have existed without him. Talk shows used to be strictly local.
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