Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for September 30, 2022

Typical! So very typical!

Not me. I do quite well on my own, thank you.

My hubby was always self-reliant, but now he takes care of both of us.

You don’t need to smother him. Eventually he will just starve in his dirty underwear looking for his wallet.

WIFE: I’m a grown woman! Don’t tell what to do! I don’t need your help!!

ALSO WIFE: Help me find my glasses …

There’s a big yucky spider in the bathtub …

My CHECK ENGINE light is on …

The grass is getting quite long …

The toilet isn’t flushing right …

That floodlight bulb outside is burned out …

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Okay, then. Whoa. Back off. Neither Aunty’s complaints nor those above apply at our house. Distasteful chores are equally shared. I don’t know about yours, but the men in our family are more than just pretty faces. (—

Hey! I object! I resemble that remark!

LOL : )

As kids (Boys) we were taught by Mother and grandma to cook, iron, wash clothes, housekeep etc. Payed off all my life. Wife and I raised 8 boys with hard work and they learned to be self reliant. Wife and I ended up caretakers for my Mother and dad over 6 years and now my wife has Alzheimers since 2014 and I am her caretaker – chief cook and bottle washer and maid. Skills I was taught as a lad (now age 76) at home is not book knowledge (my history degree useless now) worth more than I ever knew as “mommy that’s girls work” not man’s work.

Mother me, don’t smother me. Let me mansplain it to you. After you bring me another beer.

So true!

Wife: “I do.”

Also Wife: “Not tonight, I have a headache…”

AA, you are crossing the gender line here. Both sides have their pluses and minuses. Learn to cooperate through them all!

I depend on my wife for one thing: glasses so I can read the menu at a restaurant in the summer.

In the summer I wear T-shirts or golf shirts with no pockets. Therefore: no place to put glasses.

I know women have a love/hate relationship with their purses but, like a magician’s hat, they can pull all manner of things from them. My wife had a flight instructor who said he liked flying with her since if they crashed in the mountains, they could survive for a week off the contents of her purse.

My wife keeps a spare pair of glasses in her purse just for this purpose.

That can go both ways Auntie. By the way, I don’t carry a wallet, don’t drive so I don’t lose my car, and prepare my own meals.

my wife also helps me find things in the fridge that are right in front of my eyes…