So I had another funny experience in the garage recently. I thought this thread would probably be the best place to tell it.
My wife came to the garage to see me. Or so I thought it was to see me, now I am beginning to wonder about it. I couldn't ask for a better wife when it comes to the garage or my project truck. She rarely goes to the garage but when she does she has no problem being part of the crowd that sometimes shows up, drinks too much, stays to long, etc... she gets it. She also has no problem with me working on the truck and spending money on it when I need to. If it were up to her she would probably pay whatever the cost to finish it. Me on the other hand am cheap and will look for parts for as long as it takes to find a deal or even better...free. It's a good feeling knowing that she wants me to work on my truck, or is that really the case??? When I tell her what I have been doing to it she listens to me no matter how long I want to babble about my 86. Most times I think she is not really listening to what I say. Now I'm not sure about that either.
So we are in the garage and she is looking at my truck. Then she starts asking questions about the build and really starts looking it over good. I'm thinking to myself how cool it was that she is showing so much interest in my truck. Maybe she's thinking that I am some kind of build a truck from nothing God eh? After a while the questions started getting a little nit picking. Why is this not painted?, shouldn't you have this done before you moved on to something else?, and so on. Well now I am not used to being questioned about my truck like that or anything I do in the garage for that matter. Last I knew I was king turd at the garage. I wasn't mad or anything and she wasn't disrespectful either, she just put me on the spot about a few things that she noticed. I told her the reason for each of her concerns, she understood them. Now I am thinking that she really does listen to all my stories about the garage and my truck when I talk to her. How cool is that eh? I must really be her hero eh?
As she goes to leave out the back door and I am standing beside the woodstove and behind my truck drinking a cold beer that she had gotten me, She says "Clean the fingerprints off that glass it doesn't look good with
MY shiny new paint!"
I just stand there looking at the truck
Look over at her
Then she laughs and walks out.
If you are married or have been divorced this might be funnier. Some of our friends are going through a nasty divorce and she knew I would get the joke, it just took me a few seconds to get it making it priceless for her.
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