Tasers & Eating Crow
- November 29th, 2007 10:52 pm
Neither Adam nor Allie is the type of person you should wake up in the middle of the night. So last night when Allie had released buckets of urine in the bed and it almost acknowledged its buoyancy and floated away, we all had to wake up to remedy this situation. Allie & I awoke for obvious reasons while Adam woke up to tell us to be quiet.
I, too, am a grumpy gus if you wake me up in the middle of the night; so it really didn’t help that he woke up thinking his new job was to be the silencer of our house. He has several duties, and the last time I checked house silencer sure as hell wasn’t one of them.
Recalling this situation in conversation this morning went a bit like this:
Adam: You guys were really loud, you kept turning on all of the lights and looking for stuff. Allie kept yelling about wanting to go back to sleep. Then you flipped the light switches even more. I couldn’t sleep! It was really annoying! I don’t know why guys are so loud. It was louder than a lawnmower running over a box of nails.
Me: *rolls eyes*If you were so lucid during all of this, why didn’t you get out of bed with some assistance?
Adam: I was sleeping, and someone had to be in charge of telling you guys to be quiet. It was cold.
Me: What does the temperature have to do with our volume? Why the hell didn’t you just get up and help? If you ask me, that sound like a good way to get your ass tased.
Adam: Don’t give me any ideas. You were the loud one.
Men!
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On the flip side, I should mention that I have to eat crow since in the previous post I basically acted like cablefolk were the reincarnation of satan. You see, a very nice cable man came to my house this morning. He was a really friendly, little, old man, and he had on this little Jesus belt. He hooked up several boxes until he found one that would function properly. He was very nice to Allie, smiling and talking to her. Which is good, because some service people are child-fearing idiots (like the Dell repairman that came to repair my computer months ago).
Also, after we forgot to get Allie’s Rudolph DVD inside of the old box, he found it and drove by to our home to drop it off. That was quite benevolent when he clearly could have let it die and go to DVD heaven, and I would never even know. Nevertheless, I’m sure there are still some asshole cable people, but this one is exempt.
…this is me eating my words.
November 29th, 2007 @ 11:14 pm
Aww..I’m glad the cable man returned the DVD…sounds like you had a totally different experience this time
As for hubby. Sorry to hear. My hubby wouldn’t wake up if the building fire alarm was blaring for an hour (and it has, and he didn’t wake..). Now I know what to look forward to with our little one. I think I’ll save the soiled sheets to give him some extra warm in bed.
December 1st, 2007 @ 7:47 pm
my hubby wakes up extremely easy. i swear. if he hears a pen drop in the house, he’ll be up in a heart beat. me, on the other hand, i can sleep through a tornado.
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