Real men

[chickan dippaaaaz]

this is what Id buy my wife....

You're welcome!

no problems starting this one...

 

[Baymule]

My DH said 2 beautiful words of love to me: CAB TRACTOR

WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT A GUY LIKE THAT?????

A John Deere, Whoo Hoo!
(tapping foot, waiting impatiently. Skip the bow, just gimme me the keys. I buy-he pays)

 

[piecemaker]

I have WHAT in my yard? :

So we have ten acres of land. FIL has a ZTR and he mows most of our land, but a decent chunk is too hilly for him. DH used to do it all, but he has been working insane hours and it got really out of hand.

Our mower takes me and a kid to start. My wing span is not long enough to pull the cord. So we managed this for a while but DH caught me the other morning.

So out we go this week and DH buys a new mower with an easier start and all of these other super features.

He doesn't get why I am less than thrilled.

I say, "Don't buy me better tools so I can do the job, either do the job or hire some one else to do it for me!"

He says, "I want you to manage without me."

So, we're in the store and I -joking - complain to the sales guy that DH bought me a smaller tiller that I could handle, and tractor I could drive, and now a new mower. I was seeing him making sure I could do all of what used to be HIS chores!!

The guy looks at me very seriously. He says, "Real men do what they have to do to make their women as independent as they can be so that they can manage without us if we were to be gone."

He adds, "Sounds like you got yourself a great guy."


I agree!!!!

But, I thought it was an interesting way of looking at it. DH said he completely agreed that he thought his job was to make it so I could manage without him if I needed to. He needed to make me able to be independent in case something happened to him.

(I still have very mixed feelings about this mower....

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Sounds like my DH. He is always saying he is trying to make everthing easy for me when he's gone that he could just not care what happens then. I tell him thank you for worring and trying to make that time easier for me. I hope it doesn't happen for a long time though. I think it shows he really does care
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[Eggs4Sale]

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I wish my husband would bring this home instead of the John Deere tractor mower and the accompanying $4000 loan.

I feel the same way as the OP. I can't lift the gas-powered weedeater and chainsaw and the J.D. mower was killed (by me) and the gas mower we had before this, I couldn't start. I never realized it might be my wingspan, or lack of.

My mom has an electric lawnmower, which is akin to blasphemy in the manly man world, but I'm seriously considering bringing one home.
Of course, I'll be happily mowing, and within 4 feet, I'd sever the underground phone line, run over the rose bush, smash a sprinkler head, and instantaneously wind a 7-foot length of wire around the base of the mower blades. The mower would stop as the electrical outlet sparked, then the house would go dead. I'd go inside and accuse the kids of doing something, cross-examining the little ones to see if they put anything in the outlets/toaster/oven. I'd get the dead flashlights and make sure they're put up so the kids don't play with them, then open all the blinds so we can see. I'd call the power company to see if the bill is past due or lightning has struck a pole, they'd say "No, everything's fine for once. Have you checked your fuses?" I'd pretend I did. I'd hang up and go check the fuses. A few are on the wrong side. I move them back over. They go right back. I force them over with the blunt end of a screwdriver. Long story short, the house burns down, the toilet overflows, and the car battery finally dies from leaving the visor's makeup mirror open all night.

How much does that there little lawn mower cost?