Mow, mow, mow the lawn.
Isn't it funny that husbands (well, male homeowners in general) take so much pride in mowing their lawn? I mean, let's analyze this for what it really is -- it's trimming plants, watering them, keeping them green. Who would have thought that when a man becomes a homeowner, he'd take so much pride and care in caring for live things?
I mean, my daughter is a live thing... does he take pride in caring for her? Not so much. What my husband needs to understand, though, is that is you neglect the grass for a couple of weekends, it gets long, it looks unkempt, the neighbors start to wonder if someone's lifless body is rotting on the kitchen floor, etc.
If you neglect your child, she grows up to straddle a stripper's pole, and in the opinion of Chris Rock, that makes you a failure of a father.
I'm really not complaining about my husband neglecting our daughter, I'm just amused at how much time he'll actually devote to the lawn each weekend. Most of our neighbors have lawn services, so my husband is like the last of a dying breed of male homeowners in the upper-middle class of our city.
I mean, my daughter is a live thing... does he take pride in caring for her? Not so much. What my husband needs to understand, though, is that is you neglect the grass for a couple of weekends, it gets long, it looks unkempt, the neighbors start to wonder if someone's lifless body is rotting on the kitchen floor, etc.
If you neglect your child, she grows up to straddle a stripper's pole, and in the opinion of Chris Rock, that makes you a failure of a father.
I'm really not complaining about my husband neglecting our daughter, I'm just amused at how much time he'll actually devote to the lawn each weekend. Most of our neighbors have lawn services, so my husband is like the last of a dying breed of male homeowners in the upper-middle class of our city.
posted by allison at 8:54 AM
1 Comments:
At 10:51 AM,
Nytro said…
while we don't have kids, my husband is EXACTLY the same way with his lawn. he's the only one in our neighborhood that mows his own lawn so he takes a lot of pride in the fact that it looks better than the people who hire out to do it. it's a lawn, for the love of god, it's a LAWN!
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