Re: RE: RE: RESPECT FOR HOUSEWIVES (WAS SLEIGH RALLY ACCIDENT)

["Sandy Bolinger" <bolinger@bigsky.net>]

I'll make this endurance related by saying, it takes a HUGE amount of mental
endurance to patiently deal with many of my husbands "traits"! Several years
ago we had just been delivered a brand spanking new McDon swather(A GIANT
hay cutting machine)..enclosed cab, airconditioning,stereo.. whole works.
Soon after, I recieved a hysterical call from my husband on the radio to
bring a set of jumper cables out to one of the river hay fields. When I got
down there, Jim told me to head back to the house, call the McDon rep and
tell him to come and get "this piece of junk."  He couldn't get it to start.
Turn the key and nothing would happen. He'd practically taken it apart and
put it back together again and it still wouldn't start. AS he was trying one
last thing, I climbed up into the cab.  There, next to the seat was the
instruction manual, still in its sealed plastic wrap.  On the very first
page were the instructions on how to start it...(done, by the way, with
stick figure drawings and wording similar to Dick and Jane literature.)
"TURN STEERING WHEEL ALL THE WAY TO THE LEFT BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO
START"(some kind of saftey deal)  ...Trying not to act to smug I handed him
the book and went smuggly on my way!
By the way Howard...I can operate  tractors, dozers, backhoes,swathers etc.
CAN YOU?????????????????

----- Original Message -----
From: Kathy Mayeda <kathy_mayeda@atce.com>
To: Marlene Moss <marlene.moss@wcom.com>; <Howard4567@aol.com>;
<ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 9:26 PM
Subject: RC: RE: RE: RESPECT FOR HOUSEWIVES (WAS SLEIGH RALLY ACCIDENT)


> Yep, this reminds me of the time when I was a geologist and told
> the drill rigger not to drive onto a soggy lot because it was good
> old San Francisco Bay Mud.  But being the hard headed GUY he was
> he did it anyway and was stuck up to the axles until it dried
> out a week later!
>
> K.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marlene Moss [mailto:marlene.moss@wcom.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 10:30 AM
> To: Howard4567@aol.com; ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: RC: RE: RESPECT FOR HOUSEWIVES (WAS SLEIGH RALLY ACCIDENT)
>
>
> **Well, yea, if you have a tractor then you might need a man to pull you
> out.
> But, then, who's gonna drive the tractor?  ***
>
> But see, the thing is - I'm always having to pull my husband out when he
> gets stuck, not the other way around.  Cuz I can look at the snow bank,
> mud
> hole, soft ground, sand, whatever, and figure out that I'll get stuck.
> Then
> I don't drive in.  But, no, a man thinks he can get out of anything and
> then
> drives into the 3' snow bank with the car with 6" clearance.  Or drives
> the
> truck into the soggy field that the horses are already sinking into.
>
> And when he gets stuck, he is really stuck because he is a pretty good
> driver.  Our old truck was buried to the axle for 2 months - we finally
> had
> to pay a LOT to get it out.  We still have people (like the brand
> inspector)
> who, when we're giving directsion, interupt and say, oh, I know where
> that
> is, you had the truck stuck in the driveway for all that time.  Ah, the
> pictures I've got!
>
> And I can remodel a house, rebuild an engine, drive the tractor.  Just
> can't
> balance the checkbook or clean the house.
>
> And John, I really feel for your wife and hope she recovers soon!  I'm
> glad
> my husband's initial forays into the horse world went well, or I would
> never
> see him - and have to change my own tires!
>
> Marlene
>
>
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