HOME REPAIRS

My daughter and her husband are doing home improvements right now and it reminded me of when I was married to my Ex.

We also did home repairs occasionally and this is how it went. After one or two days, my ex would lose interest. Then his tools had to stay in place where he left them until he regained interest-days or months later. Only once I piled them all in a box at the same spot he left them and he screamed blue murder.

We lived in an old house where the pipes froze and broke regularly. Once after repairing a kitchen pipe (hot water) twice, he told me that I would have to do without hot water the rest of the winter. I thought about it awhile. The first time he was gone, I dug out the torch, the solder, the paste and the steel wool. I always helped with everything so I figured how hard could it be? It took about ten minutes and came out perfect. Boy, was there hell to pay when he came home! He couldn't believe I didn't have some S.O.B. come in the house and make a repair! When I finally convinced him I did it, he informed me I could do it from now on-which I did.

One time he decided he needed a building to work on his car when winter came. The only trouble? There was already three feet on snow and it was bitterly cold. He made the kids stand out in the cold and help him until I finally just sent them in. They were only 7 and 11 and I thought it was a pretty damn rotten deal.

Anyway, first off, I realized the spikes he was using were too short to hold the frame together. They only went about 1/2 inch into the wood. He told me that was plenty and to shut up. (Did I mention that a fifth of vodka was keeping him warm?). We worked and worked and finally got up a frame. The next item on the agenda was covering it with plastic (you heard me!). Here is the wind whipping all around us and we were trying to staple on plastice sheeting.

The upshot was that I was up until about three in the morning and had to leave for work at 6:30 a.m. The asshole was sleeping in a nice warm bed. And, by the way, his new building was laying flat on the ground. (He should have listened about the spikes).