I totally had an "I need a man" moment today. After a long day of being a firefighter at work and dealing with issues that I hope to get resolved at some point I came home and decided that I needed to mow the backyard. I had already mowed the front lawn earlier this week, after all that's the part that 'everybody' can see and I was too tired to do the back as well that same day. Last month I got a new lawn mower but had yet to put it to use, that was until today and let me tell you it was quite an experience. I was pretty excited about this new purchase because it had a BAG attached to it, yep, that was the selling point for me oh, and it's pretty. All green and yellow, like John Deere mowers, I'm digressing. I had yet to use this new mower because the old mower still had gas in it and I figured I would use that mower until the gas was gone and then start using the new one, well that day was today...Well, I was ready to put this new mower to use and needed to attach the bag to the machine so what do I do? Naturally I do what I always do, look for a picture of what it's supposed to look like and try and figure it out from there I must have looked pretty perplexed sitting on the floor of my garage, manual in hand because my neighbor came into my yard and basically took over for me. I had been sitting there a good 20 minutes flipping pages, looking at the pieces, flipping pages and looking at the pieces again...
Him: "So what do you have here"
Me: holding up random lawn mower parts "getting ready to mow the backyard"
Him: takes random parts from my hands and in less than 30 seconds have EVERYTHING where it's supposed to be
Me: "I was close"
At least I knew where the gas and oil contents needed to go.. So mower is all set to go and I pull the string. Nothing. I reach down and pull again. Nothing. Damn, now what! There was a 'random' part that I thought was extra not attached so I fool around with that part and of course its the part that is used to start the mower. Bam, attach that part and push the mower and realize its WAAAAAY to low (as it cuts down to the root of the grass ), all the while I'm thinking, this is so man work! I make the height adjustments and go on my merry way. I didn't even bring out the weedeater, by the end I was too tired to even do that.
I consider myself fairly 'handy' for the most part and didn't think I would have a problem attaching the grass bag to the mower because it looked pretty simple, but I was very thankful to have the neighbor man rescue this damsel in distress. My normal 'man help friend' is currently serving in Afghanistan and is out of commission for at least 13 more months. **sigh** what is a girl to do! I'm not usually one to admit defeat but man, I was really glad that he saw how helpless I was on my garage floor fooling around with that lawn mower. I almost called my dad to see if he could talk me through it but I could hear that conversation.."so I have this thingy that is supposed to go somewhere" and him saying, just leave it alone and I'll be in town >insert date here< I don't think I'll have anymore 'manly' things that I'll need done around the house for a while..don't know if my 'ego' is bruised because I couldn't figure it out or I just don't like the feeling of the damsel in distress either way, my backyard (ie Rocky's playland) is less jungle like and more homeowners association friendly..
Brown..out
2 comments:
As you've seen from my blog, you don't always get off from doing the manly chores. In fact it usually is me that does the dirty work, so careful what you wish for... hihi :) In defense of Morten though, he can cook like you wouldn't believe... mmm mmm!
I think I was just having a moment..I actually like cutting the grass, find it relaxing of sorts, but damn if I couldn't figure out how to put that bag on ha ha ha now I wouldn't mind a cook!
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