I’m sure you’ve asked yourself that question before. If you’re married, you’ve probably asked your spouse.
“I’d take a cruise around the world.”
“I’d buy a vintage ’69 Mustang.”
“I’d add a new deck with a hot tub to the backyard.”
Those are all nice things, but the answers you and your significant other give has a lot to say about you and your relationship.
Take me and The Doc, for example.
Yesterday we spent several hours doing yard work. The Doc broke out the chainsaw and trimmed several branches off of the trees. He mowed the grass (which I don’t see as work since he’s riding on a mower; it looks like fun more than it looks like work…). Meanwhile, I was tossing all of the limbs into a fire pit to burn and also using loppers to cut about 1000 honey suckle sprouts from around a nearby tree.
Do you know which muscles you use lopping? Those little ones right in front of your arm pits? Okay, maybe they aren’t so little. I just asked The Doc to clarify for me what is hurting so much right now and he said they are my pectoralis majors. Maybe it’s just my pecs that are so little!
Anyway, I digress. Back to the point at hand.
After lopping about 1000 suckers that were anywhere widths ranging from the size of a pencil to thicker than the lopper handles, I was sore. And when I’m sore, I’m not happy.
The Doc came over to admire my work. I told him that I was most definitely not built for manual labor.
His response?
“That’s why I can’t wait until we have a lot of money, so we can have a bunch of gym equipment that you can use so you won’t be sore when you do yard work.”
Hmmm. Really? That’s what he would do?
Not me.
I stood up and responded:
“Yeah, well I was thinking that when we have a lot of money, I can hire someone to do the yard work while I sit back and watch. Someone named Juan Miguel who is around 22 would be nice.”
See? It’s those little differences that make marriage so special.
