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trouble, and you can be sure there is a stinger in it for me - somewhere.
• My wife was looking out the window with her arms folded, which means she is thinking about some job around the house for Yours Truly. Then she said, "Honey, don't you think you should wash the car?"
• If I live to be a hundred that thought never crossed my mind. Do you know how much trouble it is to wash my car?
• Then, it never fails to rain right after I wash the car and have to wash it all over again.
• That was on Tuesday and I said to my wife, "You know, Dear," whenever a husband so addresses his wife, it always means he is trying to find some way out of doing her request, while making it sound like he wants to do it.
• I said, "You know, Dear, it's a wonderful idea but it looks like it might rain." The key to this point is to put on a grimace and look up in the sky, in a thoughtful frame of mind.
"Yes, I think I saw a raindrop. It won't be long now."
• Right here is where most men fail. Simply because the first round is over does not mean, by any stretch of the imagination, the issue is put to rest. I can sum up the next move in one word - vamoose.
• In other words, disappear. Remember the old saying, "Out of sight, out of chores"?
• Find something to get you out of the line of fire. There is always a chance - slim though it is - the Missus will get busy with something else and forget.

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