Wife So how's the car?
Me: Great! All fixed! See? I scraped my finger. Say, do we have any crazy glue?
Wife: I don't think so. Why?
Me: Hm. I'd settle for slightly-off-its-rocker glue. Plain ol' bad-ass glue would work.
Wife: Why do you need glue?
Me: Ah. Well... while I was putting the car back together I may have broken a very small, insignificant, completely inconsequential and absolutely non-essential piece of plastic. No worries, though.
Wife: ?
Me: Trust me.
Wife: I'm never driving that car again.

In the past week I’ve repaired our automatic ice maker (yay, ice!), hung chalkboards outside the kids’ rooms, replaced our crappy kitchen faucet with a swank high-profile faucet, and capped it off today by replacing a broken bushing on our spare car’s manual shifter.

A very fine job, too, I might add. A repair I stand behind 100 percent, glue or no glue.

Comments

1. knwd on 2008-02-22 06:23:47 wrote: FYI - Crazy glue can also be used to stop bleeding!

2. ruthdeb on 2008-02-22 08:21:34 wrote: hi-LAR-ious! Your wife rocks. So do you, Mr. Fixit. :-)

3. Elaine on 2008-02-22 10:42:19 wrote: I’ve been on a sort of handyman roll this week too, hung a coatrack and removed those child safety hinges (that are more annoying and don’t even work anymore)from the cabinets. I’m in love with a cordless drill my husband got last year and never opened! It’s mine now. While I was hanging the coatrack, my boy says to me, “We need to get blue glue.” I asked him what blue glue was, he said it will stick anything.

4. Phil on 2008-02-22 15:04:13 wrote: Hey, you want to tackle my to-do list???