Last night P and I were discussing our plans for the 4th of July weekend. He’s in the middle of a huge job right now and has been working long days digging holes and building rock walls, in temperatures that would make the equator feel like a refreshing garden spot, for clients who are actually picky enough to specify that they want landscaping that won’t attract bees and doesn’t have any smell.
Of course. Because who wants the annoying fragrance of nature messing up their yard?
Anyway, I told him that I totally understood if he just wanted to hang out and do very little to celebrate our nation’s independence. “In fact,” I said, “it’s been kind of a hectic week for me too and I wouldn’t mind the chance to just relax and do nothing.”
He asked, “Why has your week been hectic?”
“Well, on Sunday we had that birthday party at the pool. Then my mom was in town on Monday and we spent five hours swimming at the hotel and yesterday we had the party at Chuck E. Cheese. On top of that, I had to drive Gulley to Firestone to get her car serviced today before we could go to the pool.”
He just stared at me for a minute and said, “Wow, I feel bad for you with all your pool obligations. Your life is really hard.”
I’m not totally sure, but I think he was being sarcastic.
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Whatever you did to deserve such a hectic week, I WANT IN! Enjoy the 4th!
Hmmm….I hate to break it to you, but that was definitely sarcasm at its finest.
(Going around and reading up on all the fun people that are going to be at She Speaks – and you are definitely one of them.
I know, girl. My day today is crammed with swim lessons and a pool birthday party. Wishing I had hit the spray tan booth last night.
I feel you … I have to be at the pool by 10.
Ooo, definitely sarcastic.
Our pool is separated by one of those rope things in the middle between like 3 feet and 4 feet. I have yet to get past the rope all summer b/c my 3 year old won’t get off the bottom step and I can’t trust the 17 month old to stay ON the steps. 
Hectic is right. On a rare sunny day here in CT, I had to go outside and test the Slip ‘n Slide for my children.
I’m not a public pool-y. The Toys R Us as-big-as-I-can-stuff-into-my-truck plastic pool is more my speed. The crowds, the kids, the screaming– Calgon! Take me away!!!
I have to slave over a stove for approx the 10 minutes it takes to boil water and prepare this boxed macaroni salad…then pull it off as my own homemade recipe for the cookout I am off to later.
*wipes brow
We had this same conversation at my house many summers when the kids were little. Some days I would rather have been building the rock walls in Texas heat then shuttling kids to the pool. Perspective, it’s all about perspective. But God Bless P for providing the means to give you summers home with Caroline!
Hey, it’s surprising how exhausting dragging children back and forth to a pool can be!
I can’t believe he gave you lip after you endured the pouty face, germ-covered games, ticket deliberation, and snack bar teen-agers. The nerve!
Plants don’t give pouty faces or complain when you leave the pool earlier than they would like.
Clearly, he does not understand the depths of your sacrifice!
I did a week of swimming lessons (I mean drove there and watched)and I was totally exhausted after each one! Pool duty is tough work!
Yeah, I always have to watch it when Dh asks “how was your day.” I need to remember sometimes that he was at WORK all day while we were hanging at the local pottery store doing a mosaic tile project and then off to the pool. Not much sympathy from him for sure!
We had this same conversation earlier this week. I complained about how tired I was from all the pool playing and play dates. Hubby had no sympathy for me. They just don’t get the stresses of entertaining kiddos all day.
sounds exactly like a conversation between my husband and i, they just don’t understand our plight.
I think he was definitely being sarcastic!! But you are right somebody has to do the dirty work, and that is some “dirty” work!
Is he installing astroturf and plastic flowers? Yeesh. What kind of landscaping has no smell and doesn’t attract bees?
So nice to be home with the kids, ahhhh I remember those days and boy do I miss them……………………….
Sounds exactly like a conversation my hubby and I would have. He works in the concrete business and thinks I have it so easy. I do work 40 hours a week though!
im laughing right now because my hubby and I have these conversations also! hanging out at the pool and going to the park is serious business!
Too funny. It’s all a matter of perspective I guess!
You always make me laugh in the mornings.. we have had those same conversations here.. but now that our two are 15 (today!!) and 16, I think my hubby would rather be in the office than trying to keep up with two teenagers ..
An old friend taught me a neat trick a long time ago.. a little lysol in the drain makes it smell like you’ve been cleaning all day!
Enjoy your fourth!! Take it easy, would you??
That sounds like the conversations at our house on a daily basis where I try to convince Scott my job is harder than his. But when I spend my days going to Target and the pool or eating lunch with friends – I’m having a hard time convincing him. ha!
Definitely sarcastic:)…my husband is in landscaping too and the stories he can tell about picky clients! And I work inside in AC all day, so I generally don’t get to comment on how hard my day was either.
LOL!
oh, that sounds like the conversations at my house… I keep reminding my husband that I chose my job spec. for summers off…
Repeated visits to the pool is hard work. Hmp.
I’m on your husband’s side on this one! Although he may say the same to me… look at me, I’m reading blogs at work…
Personally, I’d rather dig holes out in the heat than go to Chuck E Cheese.
Maybe we can give the client some sort of benefit of the doubt and say that they go into cardiac arrest when they get stung by a bee. Help P put things into perspective. Poor guy! This heat and demanding clients must be exhausting. I wonder if he will want to go to the pool this weekend with you and Caroline?
Yep, that was definitely some sarcasm.
I run like that all week too and I will bet that if THEY were the ones doing it and WE were the ones digging the holes, their work would still be harder.
See if he wants to go to the pool for the holiday to RELAX!
Swimming in sarcasm.
LOL — that so reminds me of something my DH would say.
He doesn’t think I “work” because I sit inside a building at a desk all day long. Whatever!!!!!
Plus we always argue because my only days off are Saturday & Sunday — and guess what — it’s the same for my girls. So I’m NEVER alone. His days off however, fall during the week and he get 8+ hours at home all alone. Or *gasp* he gets to go play golf, etc. – ALONE!!!
He never wins that battle with me.
Thanks for the laugh – hehehe…hope your weekend is full of pool obligations for P.
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That sounds like my husband. I’m a teacher, so in the summer- he is very, very bitter.
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Yep, that was sarcasm.
Landscaping that doesn’t smell? Now, that’s a first. LOL I’m amazed at what some people say.
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I am STRESSED…….my 20 month old twins are not napping yet. How will we get to the pool before dinner???????
I *dare* my DH to say something like that to me. Sarcasm like that wouldn’t so much fly here…
Our job descriptions are IDENTICAL:)
My husband feels the exact same way when he gets up for work and I am still snoozing, enjoying my summers off (the major perk of being a teacher).
This is tooo funny!
My hubby and I have similar conversations. When I offer to switch places with him for a week or two he never seems to be willing to take me up on the offer though
Ha ha ha ha!
Love it!
Sounds tough to me…sounds like my life.
my dh works the pipeline and during the summer we travel with him so he gets extra daddy time….we are about to drive him insane with just the evenings….i left him alone w/ the three boys the other night so i could go to the *gasp* laundrymat by myself…you should have seen his look of horror when he realized i was leaving the baby too….*rolls eyes*
the place is an unairconditioned germ zone w/ many visitors who smell like a winery and want to touch my babe…no way he can stay home w/ daddy.
steff
So true! But in the end I doubt he’d want to switch places.
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Just to offer a little empathy –
does he realize how much packing and unpacking is invovled in a pool trip? We went to the pool yesterday and I swear I spent just as much time packing lunch, towels, sunscreening, etc, as I did in the water.
HAHA, way funny!!! :O)
Oh, but getting a KID to the pool isn’t all glory, that is for sure!!! I miss the days of just laying next to the pool and jumping in when I feel like it. Now I am surrounded by fear that my child is going to drown the whole time I’m there. Not to mention the battle of the sunscreen!
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