It's another cranky post from a still cranky VirtualSprite.
We have not had a good week around our house. Since I'm operating with only one good hand, the house is an absoulte mess and it is apparently far beyond Nature Boy to vacuum or wipe down the countertops. Don't even get me started on the bathroom. We're at biohazard level 6 here.
So, since today is the annual Bike Rodeo I had to go. They were giving away free useful stuff like bike helmets and ID kits. Nature Boy seemed excited and said that we should get a SafeAssured ID kit for the Ubergoober. I was glad that he was going since it's hard to corral a toddler with only one hand.
Then he found a "man project" to do. You know what these are, right? They're these absolutely useless projects that any given man will have to complete right now instead of doing whatever it is that his wife/girlfriend/mother wants him to do. It's never anything that you need done or that you even wanted done. No, it's just some excuse to laze around the house and slack off.
Today it's cleaning the garage. Oh, not in any useful way. I guarantee that he won't clean up the nasty oil spills or the spot where the Goober spilled an entire bottle of juice. He won't take any of the shop rags to the laudromat to be washed, nor will he take the six nearly empty bottles of degreaser and combine them into one handly bottle.
No, what he will do is sweep his stall, clean the lawnmower, organize his cans of stain according to color and formula, take the four-wheeler for a spin, move boxes around the garage and leave all of the broken items where they lay.
All of this will take aproximately 6 hours. He'll get done just after I wrestle Goober down for a nap. Then, as soon as the Goober wakes, he'll have to run to the hardware store for something. Which will take at least 2 hours. Just in time to return to watch "Predator" on cable.
I'm thinking I may have to kill him.
Do your husbands have "man projects"? I'd love to hear more tales. Drop me a line. The most useless "man project" will win... something.
3 comments:
Oh yeah. Once my husband (before kids when I worked full time as well) got pissed because the house was such a wreck. He never cleaned up after himself. So he decided "we" should clean the house. I cleaned the entire upstairs. What did he do? He rearranged the canned goods in ONE cabinent. I was ready to KILL the man! SO yes, I understand what you're saying.
mine just tells me he has to code. Often times though, coding seems to involve playing a lot of internet bridge while he waits for stuff to compile instead of....unloading the dishwasher.
roll eyes
For my huz, it's cleaning and/or tuning up his bicycle, or tidying up the computer area... the latter could be useful, except it's usually when every single other surface in the house, including kitchen and bathroom counters, AND floors, are invisible underneath all the clutter and things waiting to be cleaned like dishes and laundry. If I were to choose an area that most needed cleaning at those times, it would NOT be the computer desk.
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