Pluggers by Rick McKee for March 07, 2024

Stop it.

Or painting something.

Moved a 400 gallon water tank 10 feet over last summer. A project that started with that phrase.

Sounds like a brain fart to me ;-)

That’s not as bad as hearing “We need to talk”. Worse still is a phone call with the “We need to talk when you get home” phrase.

“Can I borrow your pickup?” Also means “Can I borrow your back to move something heavy?”

Ensure hearing aid is turned off.

Just another item for the ‘Honey-do’ list i think. Another phrase of caution starts with, “You know, we haven’t …”.

or paying for another expensive vacation

She’s been thinkin’ about a Royal Caribbean cruise.

Yep, I use to dread that phrase when my wife said it——I knew I was in for a ‘ruff time’ ! ! !

“I’ve been thinking …” = Danger/Warning – Red Alert!

True.

And loving it! Because it’s for HER.

It’s even worse when that phrase is accompanied by the sound of her tape measure retracting into the case.

OR, Visiting one of her relatives she hasn’t seen in a while — the spinster with the uncaged parakeets flying around inside the house. (One flew outside into a tall tree last time as you came in the door …)

I heard that once, rejoined “did you enjoy it?” …and that’s when the fight started

I have a novelty sign that says: “If a man says that ‘he will fix it’, he WILL fix it! He doesn’t need to be reminded every six months!”

And isn’t it interesting how it’s usually just male pluggers who are the victims of this?

That’s a fact, Jack.

…or being dragged along to her family reunion – or class reunion…my 50th college reunion is this year…I have no plans of going, & not just because it’s way at the other end of the country…

Got to think of a more subtle phrase.

Nothing good ever comes after those words from your wife, pluggers or not…….

Every time Mom said that phrase, Dad would run to the garage or his workshop in the basement — LOLOL

…or painting the living room

When my wife complained about the cost of airfare to a convention in Chicago, I replied, “I’ve been thinking of making it a road trip,” with visits to my cousins and her brother in Minnesota and my sister “just up the road from O’Hare.” By the time I left for work she had determined she could get a bus but not a train from my sister’s to Chicago so I wouldn’t have to pay for parking; I’m thinking I could drop her off at the beginning of the convention, pick her up at the end, and spend the rest of those days with other family’s homes or at museums with their own parking lots, and go back to my sister’s in between.

If I’m the one thinking it to myself, it’s usually worse.

The only place my husband will go by himself is the bathroom. ANY place else he needs me to come along.

It’s still 10 times better than, “We have to talk.” :)