Special Moments

     As married couples spend most of their lives together problems arise.  Such was this case of heat, work and Jehovah's Witnesses.  Saturdays are our day to sleep late, drink coffee until noon and do yard work,  By the time we go out to trim the weeds and mow the lawn, the temperature has usually reached well into the nineties,  This particular day, Sheila was going to help me with the yard work.  It was hot with nary a cloud in the sky.  She protects herself from the sun with long sleeves and pants and a wide brimmed floppy hat.  By the time I got the weed eater started, I was hot, tired and in a foul mood.  She was hot and impatient, with my mood transferring over to her.  We were both yelling crossly at each other over the sound of the two-cycle engine.  As loud as we were, the neighbors learned a few choice words that they probably can't forget.      When I handed the weed eater over to Sheila, she gunned it and the blue smoke filled the air.  As she walked around the corner of the house with her hips on her shoulders, never taking her eyes or anger off me.  The string at the end of the machine cut a path of destruction through the Hawthorne bushes.  She never saw the bushes or the black Jehovah's witness.  He was sitting in the shiney new car with a horrified look on his face.  All he could see was the weed eater carving a path down the side of  the new car.  As Sheila made it past the car, just inches from the paint without touching it, he breathed a sigh of relief.  Too quick.  Thinking that I was out of earshot, she backed up.  His eyes and mine were locked up in horror and we knew that there was not a thing that we could do to prevent disaster.  She moved up the driveway again, just inches away from the paint.
     Watching the scene unfold, the man's wife got into the car.  As soon as she buckled up and he cranked the car, they lost their religion.  When he passed Sheila, she finally saw him and her face turned red.  We have had Jehovah's witnesses since then, but I have not seen that man or car in the yard again.
     Sheila was doing the yard work because I was recovering from rotator cuff surgery.  Thanks baby.