Posted by Racer on January 18, 2005, at 20:45:41
I know you all can form a consensus on this, and that will be my answer.
Background:
When we moved down here to Hell -- I mean, Silicon Valley -- my husband and I purchased a condo which was apparently designed by someone who had never been inside a residential unit in his or her life. One proof of this is that, in the master bedroom, there are 12 or 14 foot vaulted ceilings -- and a smoke alarm installed at the very top! When the damn thing starts chirping, we have the facilities guy send up the Big @$$ Ladder, which is one of those multi-shape things. To get to the smoke alarm, one straightens two of the three joints, and adjusts the third to about a 90 degree angle, and then we rest that against the wall near the alarm.
My husband and I are both afraid of heights, and neither of us is very coordinated. (Mind you, the ladder doesn't get you *quite* close enough to do it easily -- you still gotta turn around on the ladder and reach out with both hands to get the thing.)
That's the background. Here's the question:
My husband can't stand watching me go up the ladder to get at the alarm. He thinks I'm very brave to do it, despite the ragged breathes I take while I do it. I say he's braver, since I only do it because I don't think I'm brave enough to watch him do it.
What do you guys say? Is it braver to go up that damned ladder, or to watch your spouse do it?
By the way, the damn thing is changed now. In a perfect world, whoever installed it should have to come back and replace the batteries, any time of the day or night, in perpetuity, as suitable punishment for being an idiotic dolt.
If anyone knows of a way to make batteries last forever...
poster:Racer
thread:443960
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/2000/20041213/msgs/443960.html