Who knew?  Since this is spring break, my daughter is home and my hubby has been thinking of ways to keep her occupied while I write.  Yesterday was movie and dinner day.  As he is want to do, Bob grabbed the spare set of keys for my car (the only one allowed in the garage) and they headed out.  At least they tried to.

 

When he hit the button to open the garage door, it went up about 2 inches, then fell crashing down.  Realizing that the door is broken, Bob turned to the rd emergency string that’s supposed to unlock the door and allow us to manually open the door.  He yanked and the string broke.    So then Mr. Has-No-Man-Skills grabbed a screwdriver and tried to force the lever.  He ended up bending the metal.  So now the door is broken, the emergency thing is broken and he’s mangled the pulley system that raises and lowers the door.

 

So, I’m spending my morning waiting on the garage door repair people.  Hopefully at some point my car will be freed from home confinement.  But that will happen only after I pay the ransom to the garage repair folks.

 

Just once I’d like my husband to acknowledge that he has zero man skills, skip the half-assed attempts at fixing things, and go directly to the phone-a-professional stage.

 

Have a great day . . . R

Awesome! This could be a funny piece to add to one of your manuscripts. You wouldn't even have to embellish to make it funny! Or this could be one of those stories told through the years at family functions. Your husband must be a great resource for your writing. You're so lucky!

Also, this leaves me wondering if our husbands are long lost relatives :) (just kidding)

I hope that after the sting of the repair bill subsides you can have a good laugh (if you haven't already).

T

tee-hee I suppose it would be too much to expect him to be the one to wait for the repairman? Oh, wait. You might not want that. He might want to... help.:o

Thank you all ladies - I have garage door lift-off and I'm only $170.00 in the hole

Hugs about the garage door! But that's the thing about men - they can't admit they can't fix things even when they, um, can't fix things.

Totally loved the book. Your writing is great and dearly love Finley. When is slightly irregular coming out?