First world problem, or no problem at all?

[Rob Hanesworth]

Our concrete driveway, three cars wide by three cars long, is dirty. It bothers Nancy, so we are going to power wash it, of course.

In my world, no driveway can be dirty enough to need cleaning.

Tell me about your world.

[TKennedy]

Well my wife once vacuumed the garage floor. It’s something us guys don’t understand and we just have to accept that.

[billhammond]

Jul 27, 2024 17:07:17 GMT -5 TKennedy said:

Well my wife once vacuumed the garage floor. It’s something us guys don’t understand and we just have to accept that.

It might get you 20 extra miles before your car's air filter needs changing.

[billhammond]

That's money in the bank, right there!

[aquaduct]

That's a new one for me. Ours is currently cracked enough to have my wife looking at getting it replaced. But I've never managed to piss her off about dirty yet.

[millring]

I would do it. I love power washing, and I love a tidy estate (hard to achieve with a 150 year old house).

[Marty]

Good excuse to buy a bright shiny new pressure washer. They work on boats, RVs, decks, fences,  cracks in the walks that are filled with weeds and all sorts of things that would look better if blasted with some water.

LJ, you can knock the shit out of a squirrel with one and water the yard at the same time, twofer.

[epaul]

Well, Rob, just I saw your driveway on Google Earth, and holy crap, it really is dirty.



(rent a steamer first, then power wash. And, sheesh, you dry your boxers on the porch railing?)

[Marshall]

I don't like sitting outside with Sue. Not because I don't like Sue or outside. But she can't sit there and enjoy the day without pointing out all the little (big to her) things that really need to be attended to.

[millring]

Jul 27, 2024 20:28:20 GMT -5 Marshall said:

I don't like sitting outside with Sue. Not because I don't like Sue or outside. But she can't sit there and enjoy the day without pointing out all the little (big to her) things that really need to be attended to.

They were a good match. He saw clouds. She saw silver linings. The perfect complement.

She couldn’t help but notice, however, that he always saw clouds. He had the uncanny ability to focus on the few – even the one -- on the nearly cloudless day. And when the skies were completely clear, he saw tomorrow’s or the next day’s clouds. He always saw clouds.

And she couldn’t really argue. He would eventually turn out to be right. I mean, tomorrow’s clouds DID appear. If not the next day, within a few days. They did appear.

And honestly? …the cost of silver kept going up. It was getting harder to line them.

So she started seeing things in them.

But it turns out that an imagination good enough to see clouds two or three days out wasn’t sufficient imagination to see anything in them. He quickly pointed out that, no, that one’s not a horse, and, no, that one’s certainly not a bridal veil. And that cloud -- those clouds over there on the horizon? …those aren’t really a mountain range.

Except they were. And she was finally just too tired to climb them

[kbcolorado]

Our driveway IS dirt :-)

[Cornflake]

"Our driveway IS dirt :-)"

Power-wash it long enough and you'll hit rock.

[coachdoc]

Jul 28, 2024 4:32:02 GMT -5 millring said:

Jul 27, 2024 20:28:20 GMT -5 Marshall said:

I don't like sitting outside with Sue. Not because I don't like Sue or outside. But she can't sit there and enjoy the day without pointing out all the little (big to her) things that really need to be attended to.

They were a good match. He saw clouds. She saw silver linings. The perfect complement.

She couldn’t help but notice, however, that he always saw clouds. He had the uncanny ability to focus on the few – even the one -- on the nearly cloudless day. And when the skies were completely clear, he saw tomorrow’s or the next day’s clouds. He always saw clouds.

And she couldn’t really argue. He would eventually turn out to be right. I mean, tomorrow’s clouds DID appear. If not the next day, within a few days. They did appear.

And honestly? …the cost of silver kept going up. It was getting harder to line them.

So she started seeing things in them.

But it turns out that an imagination good enough to see clouds two or three days out wasn’t sufficient imagination to see anything in them. He quickly pointed out that, no, that one’s not a horse, and, no, that one’s certainly not a bridal veil. And that cloud -- those clouds over there on the horizon? …those aren’t really a mountain range.

Except they were. And she was finally just too tired to climb them

[coachdoc]

Millring
Is that your own thought or a quote?

[millring]

Jul 28, 2024 10:54:15 GMT -5 coachdoc said:

Millring
Is that your own thought or a quote?

Mine. I hope I always make it clear when I'm quoting.

[coachdoc]

Thanks for answering. It’s just that it is such a good quote.

[Marshall]

Not bad for a jock.