Posted by Keith in Washington on Tuesday, December 02, 2003 at 11:11AM :
In Reply to: Spousal Units and Power-Wagons posted by Tim Holloway on Monday, December 01, 2003 at 7:11PM :
Alright nobody is really a 10 but mine rates right up there. She never complains about the time I spend, in fact she says "why are you not down in the garage working on the trucks?". She wants them working. My birthday present one year was to fix the seat in my ff. Took a while but I did it. She wants them running without problems. She likes the ff so I can haul stuff around the yard and etc. Every year we take the ff and go get the Christmas trees. There are traditions building aroung the ff. She also likes riding in the Carryall also and goes to shows in it with me. She has been to Hollister the last two years and many other car shows.
She helps me when I need a second pair of hands. This last weekend she stated that bleeding brakes is our "bonding" activity. She just loves the verbal commands up, down, up, down ... And get your minds out of the gutter.
Now she really wants me to start rebuilding the Willys my son rolled. The word is "Get it fixed" When done, she wants it as a daily driver for herself. She is ready to sell the other cars right now if it were running.
When it comes to money, I am a lot more carefull about spending it on the trucks than she would like me to be. She says if you need it, get it done.
You ask what this costs me, I let her do the things that she likes to do. She plays in a band and I go to their concerts. She has other activities that she enjoys an I let her do them. But "worst" of all I have had to put up with her skiing with me when I go boarding. Over the last two seasons, when she started skiing again, we have seasons tickets and go more than once a week. When my youngest son went to college she decided that she was going to become my new partner up on the slopes. (I think she is trying to keep me in shape). Could be worse, but she is darn good looking.
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