by Jan Fielden
I suppose I should warn the men who might read this…this week’s article is more for the women than the men. Don’t say I didn’t warn you when you get some questions, men.
My husband, The Colonel, has a special chair that sits at the kitchen table. He loves this chair and has probably had it over 30 years. We had it recovered a while back and it looks great.
Anyway, this chair started swaying whenever he would move it out to sit down. All he would do to fix it was hit on the legs and tell me he was going to fix the chair “tomorrow”.
Well, ladies, as you can imagine, tomorrow never came. I told him I was worried that one day he would sit down in the chair and it would either collapse right then or while he was eating.
So “tomorrow” did finally arrived in all its splendor! Now my husband, The Colonel has a shop with a huge workbench built in it, he has a garage with a workbench sitting in it and where does he decide to work on the chair?…why the kitchen floor of course!! He had tools everywhere.
Then he took the drill and there was sawdust on the paper he had put under the chair but also on the kitchen floor. I said nothing because even though the kitchen began looking like another shop, I was happy he was finally fixing that chair.
I asked him after the chair was fixed why he chose to work on it in the kitchen when he had other places more suited to the work?
I told him several men I knew also do the same thing and I just couldn’t understand it. His answer…typical male answer…the kitchen is air-conditioned!
I’m thinking maybe the Red Oak Ranch needs an air conditioned shop.
