A woman's place is not in the kitchen, it is at her man's side because someone needs to make sure he doesn't kill himself.
This week, Jeremy and I have started remodeling his parent's home, starting with the living room. On Thursday we dismantling things by tearing up the carpet and removing things off the wall. Unfortunately for me, Jeremy was armed with his new Leatherman and falling deeper and deeper into Go Mode. ("Go Mode" is my term for a state of tunnel vision fuelled with speed.)
As we got working and dust was flying everywhere, Jeremy decided to turn on the ceiling fan at which point he turned the knob and all other mental processes stopped. His only thought while looking at that fan knob was, "I could take that off." And in typical male fashion, he proceeded to dismantle the fan's wall unit with all the vigor of a 5 year old with a new toy. Less than five minutes later, something else caught his attention and he left the fan unit hanging there out of the wall. He didn't even bother to touch the light switch or the plug in covers. In pure Go Mode fashion, he dismantled and forgot about it, moving on to the next subject.
Fast forward 30 minutes.
I get up and head to the kitchen to make us some lunch and notice the fan unit--with it's wires exposed--hanging out of the wall over the top of the light switch.
"Jeremy, did you take this apart?"
"Yeah."
"Well, put it back together! This is dangerous."
"No it's not. It's fine."
"Well, I can't turn the fan off."
"Yes you can."
"No, I can't. I'm not going to touch it. And where is the knob?"
"(Sigh) I'll do it."
He comes over, I hold the unit up against the wall, he pulls out his Leatherman and uses the pliers to turn the peg where the knob used to be.
Fast forward to the next morning.
Jeremy's dad wants to show us how to use the sander when puttying the walls. We take him on a tour of the living room and he finds the hanging fan unit.
"Jeremy, this is dangerous. These wires are exposed. Be careful you don't touch them."
"Ah, it's fine."
"Yeah, but you see these wires? They'll give you a real bad shock."
Fast forward 30 minutes.
Jeremy's mom is getting ready for work and goes to turn off the light below the hanging fan unit. She doesn't know about the hanging fan unit and accidentally touches the exposed wires as she reaches under to turn off the light. And she gets shocked. Surprise!
I made Jeremy go turn off the power breaker and put the fan unit back together but his mom was still pretty "shocked" over the whole thing. She went to the doctor after pain in her arm persisted and he said she just had a mild shock but would be fine. Jeremy's a little embarrassed though. I just find the whole thing a little comical. Go ahead. It's okay to laugh. Really though, how many times have you ladies--like me--cautioned your children/husbands/boyfriends not to jump off that, bite down on that, drive so fast, run so hard, take that apart, etc? I swear God created woman not just to help man but to save man. :)
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7 comments:
Totally!
Just ever so manly.
I know exactly what you mean!
Tim was in "go" mode last night after deciding that it would be "totally cute" to use one of his old servers lying around to set up a webcam pointed at the chicks and ducklings. When he first suggested it I thought he was joking because I don't think of doing things if there isn't a purpose to it.
As he charged ahead (spending valuable study time for his Greek class) with his plans a chapter in a book called "Created to Be His Helpmeet" jumped into my head. I wonder if your man is not also primarily a mister Visionary? For sure your story points to a tendency in that direction, at least.
"Visionary Man will take the trash out if he remembers it. But, he may also end up inventing a way whereby the trash takes itself out or is turned into an energy source, or he may just waste a lot of time building a cart for you to take it out. He will not mind cleaning up if he notices it needs doing, but he may get so deeply involved that he decides to paint while he is sweeping, and then switch projects before he gets finished painting. And he will likely be irritated when his wife nags him about it."
That paragraph describes my husband to a "t" except for the last sentence. He has more patience than that.
"Visionary Man will talk and talk and talk to his honey if she approves of him. He will be subjective, thinking about feelings, moods, and piritual insights. One of his greatest needs will be fore his wife to think objectively (proven truth) and use common sense, which will help keep his feet from flying too far from solid ground... His sweetheart needs to stay in a positive state of mind, yet never jump into his make-believe world, trying to be too much of a cheerleader on dead-end issues." (Now my favorite part!) "Let him burn out on things that are not wise but don't throw water on his fire. Let him find his own balance through bumping into hard realities. The Old Testament prophets of God must surely have been the Visionary types. Remember Elijah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel and all their trials?"
If I hadn't remembered what Debi Pearl had suggested about handling these "go" modes I probably would have re-reminded Tim about studying. Instead I gave him enough room to enjoy his evening of tinkering and planning and allowed him to later bump into the harsh realities of cramming (once again) for class. Subsequently, we had an enjoyable evening of tinkering and talking and though we went to bed late I happily choose an hour less sleep and a cheerful husband to a dutiful but sullen one.
I'm still chuckling about the boyishly enthusiastic way Tim tackled his project last night. That must have been a little of what Jeremy looked like with his Leatherman!
Love you lots! Keep enjoying the ride with your crazy man!
Oh my gosh! That's EXACTLY what Jeremy is like! hahaha!!! Sounds like you two had a fun night of tinkering. :) I love just watching Jeremy do his thing--it's so entertaining!! I can't wait to see the Chick Cam! hahaha!
I just have to say that your opening line makes me crack up every time I think of it! It's so true!
lol. Last night Jeremy got going with the power sander on the fire place. He was supposed to even out the stops where paint had chipped off but then he decided to just remove the pain via sanding. When I came to look at his progress it was pretty obvious the paint was gone and I found him sitting in big concrete dust pile. He had sanded down so much that you could visibly see where the shape of the fire place bowed in! lol. I think the "power" tool went to his head a bit... :P
Here is the Chick Cam!
http://burndive.blogspot.com/2009/05/chick-and-duckling-webcam.html
One thing I have to say about Visionaries: when they get a project into their head they usually get it done... to the detriment of other things. Though you can't say the same for projects that have been requested of them. Often they'll get distracted with a seemingly more urgent project.
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