Oh, the Hilarity

I forgot a very funny story the other day and I think it's only right that I share it now.

When the wood floors were put in I bought a new ceiling fan. The one that we had didn't work and it was pretty generic and that just wouldn't do in my newly redone living room. So Cheri and I set off for Lowe's and bought this beautiful ceiling fan and light. The floors got put in but the ceiling fan didn't. Time got away from us so that fan just sat. Until this weekend.

Nate decided that he was going to put the fan up on Saturday. When Cooper was sleeping. On the couch about three feet away.

But I digress.

He taped over the switches and told me that it was IMPERATIVE that I not turn them on because he WILL get electrocuted. He then reiterated this point a good five or six times, like I was a middle school girl more concerned with chomping on my gum and twirling my hair than a wife and Mom who actually, I don't know, wants her husband to LIVE.

But again, I digress.

So I'm in the kitchen preparing food for the game talking to Cheri on the phone and I hear, well, a very unpretty word. We'll replace it with the word puppy (anybody else seen that Friends episode?). So I'm talking to Cheri and I hear, "PUPPY!" I look up, scream "Are you okay?!" He gets off of the ladder, walks toward me (head down I might add) and eventually says, "The puppy-in' fan shocked the puppy out of me!"

Cheri says, "I'll send Bobby over."

I said, "ASAP please."

Next thing I know, the television goes off and the breaker had been switched. Hmm...

After the breaker got switched, he walked in all defeated like talking about getting puppy-in' electrocuted. And the tape that he had over the switches that he was just so sure that I was going to turn on? It was peeled off immediately.

To hear Nate tell the story, he would say something along these lines:

I was up on the ladder and I had the puppy-in' fan in one hand. I went to reach for the wires and the puppy-in' things were still hot. Next thing I know, the fan is shaking up and down [as he erratically shakes his arms up and down] and it electrocuted the puppy out of me!"

You'll be happy to know that there have been no major side effects. Besides the fact that Nate thinks he's 28. And it's the year 2008. And he's pretty sure Purdue was in the Final Four this past weekend.





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