Tuesday, April 5, 2011

"THE HOSE"

YESTERDAY MIKE AND I WENT TO THE HOME DEPOT TO LOOK FOR A LITTLE HOSE.  WE NEEDED ONE SO WE COULD ATTACH IT TO THE NEW RAIN BARREL WE JUST BOUGHT.  I WANTED MIKE TO GET SOME WATER OUT OF THE RAIN BARREL TO WATER SOME PLANTS, BEFORE THE NEXT RAIN STORM CAME, AS THE RAIN BARREL WAS ALREADY FULL.  ALSO, OUR WATER BILL HAS BEEN THROUGH THE ROOF LATELY, HENCE THE WATER BARREL.  I DID NOT FIND OUT UNTIL THIS MORNING THAT MIKE WAS UNABLE TO ATTACH THE NEW HOSE TO THE FAUCET AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RAIN BARREL. I ASKED HIM WHY NOT, AND THEN HE ATTEMPTED TO SHOW ME WHAT HE HAD DONE.  APPARENTLY HE WAS TRYING TO ATTACH THE WRONG END OF THE HOSE, AND THAT IS WHY IT DID NOT FIT.  THEN HE ASKED ME WHICH END WAS THE RIGHT ONE.  I SHOWED HIM, AND THE NEXT THING I KNEW, HE HAD ATTACHED THE HOSE TO ITSELF.  THAT'S RIGHT, HE SCREWED ONE END OF THE HOSE INTO THE OTHER END, AND THEN HE PROCEEDS TO ASK ME HOW THAT WAS GOING TO HELP HIM GET THE WATER OUT OF THE RAIN BARREL.  TRYING NOT TO LOSE MY COOL OR L.O.L., I EXPLAINED THAT HE NEEDS TO SCREW THE ONE END OF THE HOSE INTO THE FAUCET AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RAIN BARREL, AND PUT THE OTHER END OF THE HOSE INTO HIS WATERING CAN SO HE CAN USE RAIN WATER TO WATER THE PLANTS.  HE OF COURSE DID NOT UNDERSTAND A WORD  I WAS TELLING HIM, SO HE PROCEEDS TO READ THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE HOSE (AS IF THAT WAS GOING TO HELP HIM).  NOT ONLY THAT, BUT HE WAS READING THEM IN SPANISH!!!  AND NO, MIKE DOES NOT SPEAK OR READ SPANISH, SO OF COURSE HE SAID HE DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE INSTRUCTIONS EITHER.  I JUST BIT MY LIP TO KEEP FROM LAUGHING-THERE IS JUST NOTHING CUTER THAN AN IRISH MAN TRYING TO READ IN SPANISH. WELL, THIS DRAMA WILL CONTINUE LATER TODAY I AM SURE JUST AS SOON AS THE RAIN LETS UP. KEEP US IN YOUR PRAYERS!!  JUST ME

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  1. You should consider you tube for some of these hilarities...laughter is, after all, the BEST medicine.

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