"Mom, I need to show you something."
or "COOL! Look at THIS! Check this out!"
He said, "I NEED to show you something".
That USUALLY means it's something I don't really WANT to see.
I was immediately on guard.
"WHAAAaaaaat?" I asked, like a lazy teenager that had just been asked to get out of bed at the early hour of ...................10 a.m.
"I need to show you something in the bathroom," he said, " It's BIG."
GREAT.
Again, wanting to show me something BIG in the BATHROOM?
NOT something I want to hear about or deal with on a Sunday morning (or ANY morning, for that matter), especially, not before I've had my coffee.
I mean, did the toilet overflow, and there is sewage all over the bathroom floor?
Did someone vomit?
Is there a dead rodent involved?
I don't REALLY want to know.
"Just TELL me what it is," I responded. "I don't WANT to come look."
I braced myself for the response.
"There's............a hole. A BIG hole. In the door," he said.
A hole? That's IT ? No sewage? No vomit? No dead rodent? No bad smell? NO MESS?
"Okay," I responded, " I will come take a look at it after I've had my coffee. Thanks for telling me."
I can handle a hole.
No husband wants to hear those words, either. Mr.M was less than thrilled when I showed him the hole I put in the wall. (Who would have thought that a plastic box shoved down the stairs toboggan style would put a hole in the wall?! I was just being efficient!) But he handled it famously.
ReplyDeleteI would totally blame it on bad construction.
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