Men, there are times you gotta love 'em!

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As most of my MyLot friends know, a few weeks ago I won a log splitter. Being a woman splitting logs isn't high on my priority list. Besides the fact that my fiance has a gas powered log splitter already...so what to do with the splitter. It wouldn't make a good lamp...it's too lumpy to sit on, and there isn't enough flat areas to use it as a table. So after a long deliberation, about 5 seconds, I decided that the best idea was to sell it. It didn't take long for the word to get out that I had won the splitter and was going to sell it....thanks to Bill my fiance. I told him about 3 minutes after I found out and in 6 minutes everyone around found out that I won the splitter. And the guys say us women gossip!!! Well within ten minutes one of the other men that was around came to me and told me that he wanted to buy the splitter. Gee, that didn't take long!!! He wanted to see the splitter first, which wouldn't be difficult because I had set it up with the business that I would pick it up on a Friday. We were able to pick it up on the Friday and brought it home and parked it in Bill's yard. It was kind of late when we got home and it was dark so we didn't want to mess with trying to park it in my yard in the dark. The next morning the guy that wanted to buy the splitter and his friend went to Bill's place and snuck a look at the splitter. They decided that they would go halves on it and be partners in ownership...after all how often do you get a brand new splitter that has been started only once to make sure that it was working well? And save almost $400 to boot! One of the guys came to me and confirmed that they were buying the splitter but what he stated next had me biting my tongue to keep from laughing. He looked me in the eye and stated that he had to wait for the right time to tell his wife that he and his friend were going "partners" on the splitter. He figured that she would be in a really good mood right after she hit the Thanksgiving sales. She had told him once that he really didn't need the splitter and that she couldn't see a good reason for him to buy it. I can visualize this gentleman keeping tabs on his wife's moods so that he could break the news to her that he is buying a wood splitter!! I keep wondering if he has broken the news to her yet...what the icing on the cake is with this guy is that he was a U.S. Marine! They are supposed to be rough, tough, no nonsense and this man who is 6'5" tall, 275 pounds of muscle, has to wait for his wife to be in the right mood so he can tell her that he bought the splitter! I have had so many great laughs over the vision of his cringing when he tells her "Honey, I bought a half interest in that log splitter I told you about!" I love watching men when they are trying to convince their wives that they really need the item and could they please have it??? It's like little boys!