Mind Games

 I really appreciate the way my wife does her "honey do" list. She doesn't nag and she doesn't compile an actual list of things to do. I thinks she knows if she nags, I'll make life almost intolerable. Nagging is not really her style, anyway. If there's an actual list, I'll take sooo long to do it, I'll forget or lose the list (sometimes by accident), and she'll get sick and tired of telling me over and over, what's next. So her method is rather clever. She will actually start the project, and I'll come help once said project has commenced, then she'll leave me to finish. She realizes it pains me to see her use tools, or her version of tools (that will definitely be another happy hour discussion), either wrong or dangerously. So I'll jump in before she either hurts herself, or breaks whatever the project is, or breaks/loses the tool. All of this will eventually cost me money - trip to the hospital for stitches, buy material to fix the thing broken, or purchase lost tools. This is how I perceive what's going on concerning the "honey do" list. I probably have it all wrong, and she's used some kind of psychological mind control to make me think this way. It's not really for a man to figure out. Regardless, it works on me, I don't get upset, it usually doesn't cost me anything, and ultimately, I get the "honey do" list in her head complete. All is well, time to relax with a cold libation. But, as soon as I'm done with that, I need to go do .......