Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for April 11, 2024

Don’t be so sure Grasshopper. Strange things come from trying to outsmart a woman.

Labouring under a misapprehension

Distractions?

Lose the feeder and you kill two bird problems with one stone.

I pull that trick on my husband.

Hand it back to her with your own note along the lines of: In the interest of equal rights and to avoid the implication that a women is less capable than a man, get moving, daylights wasting.

My wife has never given me a ToDo list. She trained me differently. She’ll make a comment and a task magically appears on my ToDo list in my handwriting.

I think I’d subcontract Paint the Garage. The rest is doable in a couple hours.

15 years and my wife has never given me a “honey-do” list. She correctly assumes that anything that needs doing, other than the garden, I will do.

“Take hammer back to tool chest”? I wish my list were that simple. In my case, the last one would be, “Hire someone to paint the garage.” You don’t want to see what it would look like if I painted it.

I’ll happily do the types of chores on Arlo’s list except paint the garage. I loathe painting. The VOCs in the paint give me a raging headache. Oh, I’ll paint the garage, but I won’t do it happily.

Why do wives have to be sneaky?

Nope, I’m the only one who writes my to-do list. Notice that I said “writes it”.

Is this like the brown M&Ms thing?

To-do lists routinely find the shredder sitting next to my desk :D

Ah JJ, you got another one that made me laugh out loud. Thank you!

Like when the auto mechanic estimates repairs at $3,000 and you’re grateful they cost only $2,500 — whereas you woulda gasped at $2,500 if that was what you were quoted in the first place!

my wife and I talk about what extra work needs to be done weekly. That way we can plan on other personal activities. If I was presented with job list for that day that wasn’t an emergency, trash can.

Smart move Janis…….

I always put one outrageous chore on my daily goals list so I’ll feel better about getting the other minor ones done.

Janis could have filled the bird feeder and put the hammer back in the time it took to write down those chores.

“…. but I do it too because I love her so much.”

I was hired to paint a porch, do not hear well in my old age so I painted his Porsche. So it goes…

Janis is clever after all.

A list of reasons to move to the condo ?

Mulch piled against the bark of a tree can kill it.

The rest of the stuff is easy peasy. Like, what, 10-15 minutes of stuff? The poop may put up a fight.

And Arlo breaks the fourth wall, to talk directly to US.