December 18, 2008
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Snow Day.
When I came home from work yesterday, I was greeted by a “snow-wall” outside my driveway which was barricading the entry, preventing my car to go in. In a failed attempt to just add gas and try to plow through it with a Honda Civic, I decided to give up and park on the side of the road and just shovel the darn snow.
Neighbour’s house.
Then I took a look around the neighbor’s driveways and they were all snow-walled too. I thought to myself, “If I couldn’t get in, then they probably wouldn’t be able to either.” So I decided to shovel the neighbour houses that surround mine. Six driveways in total, one being my own. Whether they were beside me, across me, adjacent to me, I did them all. I have never smelled sweat on myself before yesterday, and when I woke up this morning, my back felt like somebody threw bricks at it.
Mind you, my neighbours hate our household. It’s all my dad’s fault for being a really really big asshole. They hate us so much that they give my friends middle fingers when they come, and their very white kids that play street hockey, decides to play it on our driveway when we’re not home just so they can ruin our garage door.
Yeah. Do you have neighbours like that? Well I do.
So what drove me to shovel their driveways? I don’t know. It’s just the way I am. I guess “Love thy neighbours” is what I was thinking about the whole time I was doing it. And little bit probably has to do with the “Season of Giving”.
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Useless Wives.
BUT, onto another more important story that is based on this one, one of the housewives that saw me shoveling her driveway opened her door and said,
Her: “Hey, you’re shoveling my driveway”
Me: “Yeah I know” *resumes shoveling* “I just live right there”
Her: “Uh. You don’t have to do this.”
Me: “No no, I’m almost done, and I couldn’t get in my driveway, so I thought you probably couldn’t get in either”
Her: “Oh that’s very sweet of you. But I can just get my husband to do this.”
WHOA WHOA WHOA stop.
See. That’s a woman that I wouldn’t want to become. She can get her husband to do it? I almost wanted to give her my independent woman speech, but I decided to spare her so she wouldn’t feel bad about being a useless wife.
See, if it were me, my house would be immaculate in every aspect of it. If an unfortunate destiny falls upon me that I shall be a housewife, and ONLY a housewife, it would be that when my husband steps out the house every morning to win his bread, I would do EVERYTHING in the house so that when my husband comes home, he ain’t gonna have to do nothing but relax. He deserves it, you know?
Useless wife that has inefficient dress for cleaning tasks.
Anyway, don’t be a useless housewife.
Comments (7)
I want you as my neighbor! But no, we dont get “snow-walls” here.
i think i’d let my husband do it in the morning (i never wake up early enough to do anything else than get ready) and i’d do it at night. but if he was smart, he’d offer to do it then too!
….hmmm…there’s only one thing my wife should do for me to be considered useful….
cook.
lol.
@getyourownsandwich - paulina is yet again tooo demanding of her men. that why me and her will never work…and paulina – we know you deal with ‘water’ not ‘snow’ NIAGARA FALLS!!!
nElle, don’t complain about the exercise, you know you can use it. hehe
@toneS1 -
actually, i lied. i don’t think i’d do it day OR night.
wow, you’re a better person than I am. I definitely would have only shoveled my own driveway. In fact, I wprobably would have shoveled all the snow that was in my driveway into a big pile on whichever one of my neighboors was the biggest asshole’s front porch so he’d have to wade through a varitable frozen wasteland of a porch before ven being able to shovel their own driveway. And of course I’d put dog poo on the deck first, so that they step on it when they walk through the snow. Yup. I’m a jerk face
sure i’ll do the driveway. just have my hot dinner on the table by 6:30 p.m. thanks honey!