Cindy Haglund wrote in a message to Roger Nelson:

 CH>  This is a great joke! There's another version of it but this one
 CH> is  the better by far. :) ((I could not help but thinking if I
 CH> hadn't seen this before I'd have thought you were talking about
 CH> yourself ...
 CH> [...] 

I never shied away from moving the lawn, but no, that wasn't me in the joke.

 CH> and that got me to thinking I'd like to get a good old
 CH> fashioned push mower.. but hubby likes the power one and at least
 CH> he's no into those silly seated kind  (for a large yard yeah but
 CH> ours isn't.)

Those went out in the 1950s.  I kinda miss them because they made you work,
which is something now unwelcome on weekends.

 CH> Heh. Joking aside though: I can't help but thinking why didn't SHE
 CH> get the mower fixed? 

Obviously an "Us versus Them" mentality.

 CH> A lot wives mow the lawn these days and know how to take care of 
 CH> the machine. 

I want to say they are very rare, but I see them all over this section of our state.

 CH> Mowing is good way to get a tan and exercise. 

You bet!

 CH> A lot hubbies do traditionally wife work too. Like doing laundry 
 CH> or changing baby's poopy diapers. (And not leaving the said diaper 
 CH> laying around for the dog to find.)

Been there, done that and fathered four children in the process, so I've
changed many a diaper -- and I'm talking about the cloth ones that had to
be washed and reused.  My dog was so well trained, she wouldn't go near
anything unless I gave her permission.

 CH> Not long ago a new hubby complained to Dear Abby how he and his
 CH> wife could not agree on how to wash dishes. He says do the flatware
 CH> and glasses first because they come in contact with the mouth, then
 CH> the plates. She said it doesn't matter. He says you dust first then
 CH> vacuum, she says vac first then dust. Hubby is asking Abby who is
 CH> right.

That is one of the silliest things I've heard and I've heard many.  It
doesn't matter as long as the dishes are thoroughly washed and dried
immediately after use.  Most couples of today don't do that.

 CH> Being smart Abby replied to the new hubby: Let your wife do the
 CH> dishes, you do the vacuuming/dusting and both of you save up for an
 CH> automatic dishwasher.

That would start a whole new disagreement.

... "Wonders are many, but none is more wonderful than man
himself." -Aristotle


Regards,

Roger 
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