My Handy Man.......................

Last week while I we were getting the house ready - I turned on the vacuum and the lights blew in the dining room............
John went into the basement to switch the breaker back on and I continued with the vacuum.

A little later I went into the office - and the light didn't come on in there either.

Suzan says - John I think you're going to have to check the breakers again - one side of the office is not working............
John says - It's not the breaker - everything is fine down there now
Suzan says - Well it's a bit of a coincidence don't you think?
John says - I'm telling you it's not the breaker.

He comes into the office and goes down on all fours with a flashlight and starts following the trail of wires.....

John says - we're going to have to move the filing cabinets I'm afraid
Suzan says - WHY?
John says - I have to check the plug outlet and it's behind there
Suzan says - Can you check the breakers again one more time before we do that?
John says - IT'S NOT THE BREAKER DAMMIT

It took us forever to move the filing cabinets which weigh about 14 tons - 2 large ones stacked on top of each other..............
In doing so the floor was scratched terribly...............

John takes a lamp from another room and plugs it in the outlet -
NOTHING..............

John says - you see?  it's the outlet
Suzan says - but if it's the breaker the outlet won't work with anything you put in it..............
John screams - I'M TELLING YOU FOR THE LAST TIME IT'S NOT THE BREAKER

He then digs out an extension cord....................and plugs a lamp from the office into an outlet in the dining room - and the lamp comes on.................

John says - ARE YOU READY TO APOLOGIZE NOW????????????????
Suzan says - Nope
Suzan says - I think it's the breaker............
John says - we're going to have to call an electrician in
Suzan says - If we call an electrician in and he goes downstairs to check the bre -
John interrupts - THAT'S IT - YOU'RE BEING RIDICULOUS
John says - You can't apologize can you?  You just can't do it !!!!!!!!!!

John says - Well we can leave it like that for now
Suzan says - We have photographs being taken of the house- we can't have a huge yellow wire
coming out of office into the dining room -
John says - They're not looking at things like that!!!
Suzan says - I just don't understand why you wouldn't want to double check one last..............

John calls Tony ( Linz's husband ) this is all I can hear

" well I already checked the breakers "
" ok then - thanks Tony - I'll check again "

Suzan says - what did Tony say?
John says - well the outlet might be dead - but he says I should check the breakers again
Suzan says - uh huh - I see...............

John goes downstairs - flicks all the switches on the breaker and there was light..............

John says - I don't understand it - really I don't
Suzan says - ARE YOU READY TO APOLOGIZE NOW????

As he was bent down under the desk trying to rearrange all the wires again - I wanted to give him a good swift kick in the A$$.

Except I was too busy down on my hands and knees frantically trying to fix the damage on the floor of the office in the house that we're trying to sell......................

Another typical day....................

All the other bloggers seem to have such normal lives - these things happen on a weekly basis around here :)

Apparently in John's world people don't look inside closets either.................

I'd LOVE to live in his world for just a little while - it would be nice to escape reality from time to time

Have a great Friday everyone -

I'm still waiting for an apology in these here parts :)