Monday, December 22, 2008

Bad wife. Bad bad wife.

Today is the day before what is our Christmas Eve with my family and I had Jeff run what I had thought would be a quick errand.
He was going to work again in this snow and his buddy Ron asked if Jeff would come out to Dallas and get him so he did.
The nice man that takes care of my yard lives in Dallas or at least that's what his address says and he needed to be payed. He had said that he would be by on last Monday but as you all know the snow started last Sunday. I was getting worried that Christmas was upon us and he may just need this money so since Jeff was going to Dallas anyway I thought why can't he just drop it off.
Jeff agreed to do this and headed out. He stopped and got Ron first and they went to find the house. After driving up to the top of the highest hill on the outskirts of town they found the road and also found that the truck didn't want to go any further in that deep of snow so rather than get stuck they started to walk.
I just have to stop and tell you what Jeff left the house it this morning. He was wearing jeans a collared shirt a lite jacket and loafers and I'm sure that Ron was wearing something similar. I did try to get him to take his snow boots and some gloves with him this morning. So my conscious is clear.
Where was I? They were walking in the snow. They walked and walked and walked and a tree falls right by them. They walked some more and here's a man cutting another tree that had fallen. They ask the man if he knows where the house is that they are looking for and he says its just up a ways and the description he gives is like this.
You're going to walk a ways and come to this silver car stuck in the snow then you ll walk some more and come to another car stuck in the snow and just after that is the driveway to that house.
They say thanks and head on their way. Ween they get to the "drive way" it's more like another road or as long as one.
When they get to the house the first thing the nice man says to Jeff is why did you do that and Jeff says if I didn't my wife would kill me and the nice man showed the boys around the property. The nice man said to the boys that he wishes that he could give them a lift back to the truck but his truck was stuck in the snow too. They said that was ok and thank you anyway.
Before they headed back down the hill they asked the nice man's wife how far they had walked. She informed them that they had walked a mile and they were now going to have to walk back a mile.
What made things even worse was that they didn't even get to get warm or anything because the nice man had lost electricity.
So needles to say Jeff was not so happy for having to do that but he had a smile in his voice every time he called so I think I'm in the clear. Besides his Christmas present will more than make up for it.

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