One Wingnut Too Many

[Donna K & Quincy]

We all know that men are not known for reading directions and my DH is no exception. We bought a new barbecue grill with some assembly required. The instructions said 'easy assembly' but the person who wrote that had obviously not met my DH.

I try not to get involved in these things but as inevitably happens I get sucked into helping. Now helping to assemble a barbecue was not in my plans at 9:30 in the evening but DH just had to put that barbecue together tonight. I stayed out of the way until I was paged for the first time, "Lend me your glasses, I can't see where this piece goes".

 So I look at the diagram, show him where the mystery piece belongs and go back to DK. I might have known it was too good to be true and sure enough a few seconds later, "Can you come here and give me a hand"? Another look at the diagram and a point to the appropriate spot for the piece he was holding and I tried to get away again, but luck was not on my side. I finally gave in and just helped him out.

Finally the whole thing was assembled and DH proudly announced, "It's all done and I only have a few pieces left over". Now I don't know a lot about assembling things but it's not dinner and I am pretty sure there aren't supposed to be 'leftovers' . What do you have left I asked? "Some screws and two wingnuts" he said. "No you're wrong I said, there are three wingnuts". "No there are only two" he said with a somewhat puzzled look on his face and two wingnuts in his hand. "Yes, there are three wingnuts and the third one is holding the other two".

 He finally clued in and I read the directions to see where the wingnuts belonged and he finished the task. I took one look at the assembled barbecue and asked just one question. " How are you planning to get that outside, it is too big to fit through the door"? So out comes the screwdriver and the barbecue is partially disassembled again to get it out the door. Now he just had to fire it up to see how hot it would get and only burned two fingers in the process because for some inexplicable reason the electric start didn't work.

Well, the barbecue is all assembled and working with only one wingnut left over and since I've been married to him for 34 years I guess I'm stuck with him.

We just built a new front deck with an immense amount of help from my brother. This weekend DH and I have to figure out how to put a railing around it, that should be a load of fun. I think about then I'll ready for a good game of Whack a Wingnut.

 

[Donna K & Quincy]

Laurie, I was checking out the link to the site you gave and found this. I think it's just perfect.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Donna, There is the link for the shirt!!

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

http://www.catalogfavorites.com/itemdy00.asp?T1=V8326%20L&srcco...

[F, Calla & Luca]

@ Donna. Be careful, as mothers of sons we know they don't take these things lightly.

[F, Calla & Luca]

@ Laurie, love it.

[Donna K & Quincy]

@Laurie, Love it and where can I get one?

[Donna K & Quincy]

@Deanna, My husband is not big on reading directions either, therein lies the problem. :>)

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Donna, LOL...my DD's once wore shirts that said, "3 Wise Men?? Be Serious" for their annual Christmas card picture.

[Donna K & Quincy]

@Janie, The railing was fairly uneventful, I had him practice his angle cuts on scraps of wood before making any final cuts. Geometry wasn't the problems, really knowing how to use the tools was.

@Lori, The disassembly came after he had to make at least one attempt to get it out the door, he just had to try. :>)

[F, Calla & Luca]

It takes a while but my wisdom shines through eventually : ) Te only advantage to blogs is that they stick around longer IMNSHO.