Mike Rowe: experience and epiphany.

Posted on by Julie Stiles Mills

Me, to FirstHusband: “You should watch this video of Mike Rowe. It’s hilarious and amazingly insightful. He’s a comedian and a philosopher at the same time. He starts by talking about one of his experiences on Dirty Jobs. It involves the removal of lamb testicles. In a very unexpected way.”

FirstHusband: “I know. He bit them off.”

Me: “HOW did you know that?

FirstHusband: “I saw that episode.”

Me: “Well, he talks about the experience and some epiphanies he had afterward. It’s pretty interesting. A man doesn’t bite the testicles off of a lamb and come away from the experience unchanged.”

(If you can’t deal with the “experience” part, skip to the 6:55 mark.)

my husband does not wear stripper boots. just ask him.

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Me, to FirstHusband: “Why are you wearing “hooker” boots?”

FirstHusband: “They aren’t “hooker” boots, they’re work boots.”

Me: “So you say.”

FirstHusband: “They’re work boots.”

Me: “What, with built in shin guards? They go all the way up your legs. You guys really playing soccer and not telling anyone?”

Seriously. The box actually reads “professional pole climbers.” So, okay. Not “hooker” boots. “Stripper” boots.

grace in a tire.

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Thank you Lord for the tiny little screw that embedded itself in my tire. Without that impetus, I wouldn’t have gone to AutoMech to have my tire replaced and discovered that I needed four new tires before a family road trip this fall. Your grace, in the form of a tiny screw, has protected my family from a blowout at high speed due to dry rot tires. Thank you Lord, for providing the money needed to replace the tires without depending on credit.

(I keep forgetting this is not my 2000 Red Honda Odyssey. This is the 2003 Red Honda Odyssey I got in October of last year. It has a different maintenance schedule. I don’t believe I will ever remember this without being reminded.)