I can only remember once when my wife (girlfriend at the time) helped me put the roof on this 34 P/U so that I could weld it up. I was unchopping the top. It wasn't heavy, just awkward. It only took a 1/2 hour and she was gone.
I don't ask the wife for help... that invites her in to my "cave time". If I do that she might want to be a regular visitor and I'm sorry.. as much as I love her.. my shop is my shop and I go there for ME time. She loves my cars, but could care less about being in there and I want to make sure I keep it that way!
It has been said before women have their hair, men have their cars! I dont do her hair, she dont do my cars. However, I do ask her to occasionally hold my tool.
My wife loves my old car obsession and even encourages it, but she won't even set foot in the garage because she says the floor is nasty (it's not). I've just had some spills in there over the years and have cleaned them up completely but the concrete is not that pristine concrete color anymore.
X2 - Alternate headline: When your wife helps- "sh#t gets all messed up" My wife came into the shop once and knocked over some new plugs I had just re gapped with a laundry basket and put them back on the counter and did not tell me. One of the plugs was bent closed and I spent hours trying to find the missfire. Unless she is delivering a Sammich she can stay away from my stuff.
Mine is pretty good, she can even light the torch and hand it to me without setting anything on fire. I have to tell her often enough to go back in the house and take off all her chains & rings (jewelry..). She knows more about cars then a lot of guys, she's seen the greasy innards of just about anything mechanical. She was good at taking a stock car off and on the trailer. People in the pits got a kick out of that especially after the feature. Bob
Shoebox? Check. Helpful wife? Check. Saturday I cleaned out the garage, moved her '48 Chevy pickup out, and brought my dad's '50 home. Couldn't have done it without her! Had to make two trips to get all of my tools too! Now tell her thanks by going to www.ClassyNSassy.net and buying your wife something nice, LOL.
My wife doesn't do much in the garage. She'll occasionally help bleed brakes and such, but her favorite way to help the build is to search for parts. My 11 year old daughter, however...
Mine whines for two days every time I ask her to pump the brakes on a project to bleed them and absolutely wouldn't help on any other part of a vehicle or the boat. Back in our younger days her favorite thing was to see if she could get me distracted from working on the 48 and maybe that's why it never really got done.
If it were'nt fer the ole lady , i would'nt be what i am today.....AND YOU CAN QUOTE ME if ya want. B.B.
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