Fixing together.

Alright, if u liked the story of the grass adventure,
> u might enjoy today's fun time. I'm sure there's
> a lot of women who can relate to the next issue. My husband
> is smart, funny, a joy to be around (well most times that
> is) but not mister handy man. Not that he doesn't like
> trying cause he enjoys fixing things i just hate watching
> him do it. He tries so hard but has not realized
> yet he has some physical disability which makes things twice
> as hard to do and five times longer to do it. But i love him
> anyways.. I on the other hand, like figuring things out
> and just do it. But, there's one thing i do
> hate is being a goofer. You know that one who is to keep
> running, getting tools that your mister handy man forgot or
> never thought of having around just in case. Well that leads
> us to today of fixing the refrigerator door. We NEED a
> new refrigerator, but here in Greece if it's not at
> least a thousand yrs old it's still
> considered new. The one we have is
> "ONLY" 50 yrs old, (...just
> kidding it's really six ), doesn't matter that u
> still have to defrost it every couple months, or that there
> is water leaking in the inside so that every other day i
> wipe up a puddle that has settled under neath the veg,fruit
> draws, so when u open up the door water pours on to the
> floor. Or better yet never mind that the handle is
> duct taped on cause it broke off sometime last yr. that
> doesn't matter... it's "ONLY" six
> yrs old, so we need to try and fix anything else that goes
> wrong. Besides the fact to buy a new one will cost us a
> couple months salary.
>
> Now back to the door. It won't close tight cause
> the door on the bottom is rusted rusted through, and now the
> hinge is not holding up right. So i come up with
> an idea to add a piece to fix the hinge. What was i
> thinking!!! We found a metal brace to use but it needed a
> bigger opening. An hours goes by i open the
> door to the back yard to see what is taking so long,
> the yard is scattered with tools that i have no idea
> what there for, and he's working in his underwear and
> tee shirt sweating like it's 100 degrees out. I walk
> inside close the door and hope i don't have
> night mares tonight.
>
> After another 20 min. we are ready to
> try to put the door back on. Now u know nothing can run
> smooth, specially when u have two people who likes fixing
> things. I of course have to just hold the door, while he
> struggles to fit in this small opening with his head resting
> on the floor trying to see where the holes are to line up.
> After twenty mins of the Greek communicating i finally get
> him to let me give it a try. So now he's holding the
> door. while I'm lining up the holes, he's
> moving the door one way I'm moving it another when the
> plastic part of the hing breaks off. GREAT!!! OK now we are
> exchanging words in Greek and English which u don't want
> to hear. (unfortunately the whole building didn't
> have a choice in the matter). So now what???? My
> suggestion was to just duct tape the door in place and
> forget it. I was hoping we would actually buy a new one. No,
> he found a way to get it to work with only half of the
> plastic hinge and it didn't need any duct tape. So for
> now the door closes, till the next thing falls apart on it.
>
>
> So now it's taken us three hours to fix a hinge on
> the door. When we clean up we find an extra screw (it was
> one i brought in) but he looks at me and says 'a good
> engineer always has left over parts' we both crack up
> laughing and go outside to have our coffee.

My sister asked me how we were going to cut the
> grass. Last yr my husband bought a hand trimmer for grass
> (WHY???? i have no idea, we had no grass) anyways with
> my wisdom i decided to put it in a safe spot. I haven't
> found it yet, how i can lose something in a 800 sq foot
> apartment is beyond me...we are going to buy a new one...but
> her suggestion is better, get a
> goat.