#ConfessionFriday
I tricked my Wife into doing some manual labor (involving furniture) because I had remembered that she was handy with tools.
BACKSTORY. A year ago or so... Wife asked me to assemble some bookshelves we were gifted with. I put one together and stalled/procrastinated on the other. She got fed up with waiting on me and one day... she put the other bookshelf up all by herself. Then she made the mistake of bragging to me about it, and posting on social media about her knowing how to do things and being able to do them without me. But at the time, she didnt realize that her boasts were a mistake. But I told her then... "This will come back on you!" And it recently happened!
Also a while ago, I assembled this fancy desk in her home office. It was not an easy task and it took me hours to complete. A couple weeks ago, Wife began plans for some home office upgrades that required all furniture to be removed from the room. But the desk couldnt easily be taken out of the room, because of its size and shape. However, the desk was assembled in sections, so pieces of it could be detached so that it could be removed from the room.
So... when Wife asked me to break the desk down and take it out the room so the improvements could take place, I said "Baby, it took me HOURS AND HOURS to put this thing together! I really dont want to break it down. Can we just work around it? We can slide it to different parts of the room while we work on the improvements." Then Wife pointed out that all I had to take apart were two sections and it should be good to go. Then I hit her with "But Princess... I dont wanna mess things up. I will need to find the assembly instructions and see if they include a breakdown procedure. And if not I will need to work backwards from this point where I connected these sections." However, the disassembly was pretty obvious, just from looking at it. Little did Wife know... the whole time that I was giving all these excuses, I was recalling the way she put the bookshelf together after waiting on me.... so I already had it in mind that she was gonna break down the desk herself.
And sure enough... days after I gave excuses for not doing it... I came home and Wife had a big 'ol smile on her face. She said "Husband... look! I took the desk sections apart and moved them to the other room!" She was so excited. Out loud, I said "Oh wowww, Princess!! Awesome job! Look at you, you are so amazing!" But to myself I said, "Hahahaha! Plan worked! That's what you get for bragging about the bookshelves a year ago."
I LOVE YOU, WIFE!!