Re: Yardwork with the son, part I
- From: Dan Bretta <nudan92@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 12:36:56 -0800 (PST)
On Jan 4, 2:10 pm, James Schrumpf
<jaspammenotschru...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We did the live Christmas tree thing this year, meaning that I had to dig aShooting hoops in January??? Where do you live?? The Equator?
hole in the front yard in late December. I put the wheelbarrow over it
upside-down, with a cinderblock on it, to cover it up.
Today my 21-year-old Penn Stater was helping me plant the tree. We had
loaded it onto the hand truck and I was backing it down the yard with my
son holding the tree on the truck so that it wouldn't roll off.
I am walking backwards pulling the truck.
He is walking forwards, looking over my shoulder.
Keep this in mind.
I ask him "Are we headed towards the hole?", and he says we are.
We're talking as we walk the tree down the yard, and I'm just about to ask
if we're close yet as I step backwards into the hole, my foot going between
the side of the hold and the edge of the wheelbarrow. I feel the flesh
peeling off my anklebone as it grinds past.
The subsequent conversation goes something like:
"Why didn't you tell me I was about to step into the hole?!"
"I couldn't see it!"
"How could you not see it? You were looking right at it!"
"I couldn't see it through the tree and you! Why didn't you see it?"
"How could I see behind me?"
And so on for a couple of minutes.
Finally we both start laughing, and I wonder if the neighbors across the
street shooting hoops saw our Two Stooges routine.
Dan
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