When the building contractor is also your husband …

Michael: *knocking on the window of the kitchen door*

Me: *making a hot chocolate, calling through the window* Yes? Did you want to come in?

Michael: Yes.

Meghan: Through this door?

Michael: Yes.

Meghan: Even though you just left through that door? *gestures toward the door on the other side of the tiny cabin* You want me to come over and unlock this door and let you in?

Michael: Yes.

Meghan: *takes three steps, unlocks, and opens door* You just wanted me to do some sort of work today.

Michael: *grinning* Nope. I just wanted to tell you to not use that door. *points* See that piece of wood, blocking the door?

Meghan: so … don’t use the other door?

Michael: Don’t use that door.

Meghan: Like, never again?

Michael: Never, ever again. Is there anything else you’d like me to break while I’m at it?

Meghan *thoughtfully* well … not this door, because then we’d have to climb in and out of the house through the bathroom window.

Context: Michael needed to remove a section of ‘soffit’ so he could ‘check the heel height of the trusses’ … yeah, I have no idea what that means either, but apparently it’s a measurement the draftsperson/engineer needed to draw the plans for the addition.

BTW. In the time is has taken me to write this post, the offending piece of wood is no longer blocking the door. So apparently Michael completely lied about the ‘never again’ thing. 😂

13 thoughts on “When the building contractor is also your husband …

  1. At least he told you not to use the door. 😁 As clutzy as I am I would have blundered through the door trying to figure out why it wouldn’t open.

  2. Sometimes have to wonder if having a contractor /handyman as your partner is worth it. Usually cheaper and maybe faster but the questions are stranger😄from one wife of a crazy builder to another

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