It's nothing scandalous, if that's what you're hoping for. No real dirt or anything. My life isn't that exciting. I wish it was. Kind of a Desperate Housewives meets Murder, She Wrote type of thing. But it's not. It's pretty boring. Pretty mainstream.
Suburbia.
Anyway, I'll just tell you what it is.
I have absolutely no idea what Prince Charming does for a living.
If anyone asks me, I usually just say he owns a cable construction company. If they ask any kind of follow up questions, I can drop really important sounding terms like "fiber to the home" and "innerduct" and "line truck". I can say "commercial installs" and I even been heard talking about a "really big job coming up for the DOT", but...truly....it's just a big WHOOSH! Right over my head.
I usually stay out of it. Just let him chew it all over with his foreman and managers.
So, when I asked my beloved if he maybe wanted me to come down to his office yesterday, he was understandably skeptical.
"Sure. Wait. Why? What do you want?"
"Nothing. I just want to take some pictures of the trucks. And $40."
"What for?"
"I need to find a pattern for my project group this week and I'm having trouble seeing anything I like. I mean I looked for something while I was walking home with the kids, and things around here. But, I don't know. I'm having a hard time. I thought maybe something on one of the trucks might work for it."
"No. What do you need the money for?"
"Oh. Plants."
"You're photographing plants?"
"No. I'm photographing trucks. I'm planting plants."
Sometimes it's like he has no idea what I do, either.
"Whatever."
I guess finding patterns in tires is not as important to him as it is to me. Which, I guess, is fair. He has to focus on things like, you know, payroll...and...stuff....
Long story short, I went down to the yard, and took these pictures:
This is a tire on some sort of yellow vehicle.
"It's a forklift."
This is a big, heavy chain laying on a piece of wood.
"It's the back end of the flat bed truck".
This is a...big...green metal thing kind of leaning on a bunch of other metal things.
"That's a..."
Stop! Okay? This isn't a big, green metal thing lesson. Just look at the pictures.
This one I know. This is a reel of fiber. And it's for sale, if you're interested in buying it. I'm not sure what it costs, though. The cost calculation based on how much is on the reel is pretty technical.
"It's $1 a foot."
Don't you have to go back to work?
These are more reels of varying materials.
"They're all fiber."
No...I mean some are wood. That one at the back there is metal. Can I get the door for you?
I'm not sure why they have these pots there. I mean there are no flowers around. Like...anywhere.
"They're not flower pots. We use those for..."
Nope. Flower pots. Next.
Wheel barrow wheels. That was an easy one.
"What'd you take that for?"
This could be another metal fiber reel, although it's pretty rusty. Hard to tell.
"Don't show that! It makes the yard look run down."
Okay, fine. I Photoshopped it to look like that. Really it's pink and shiny.
"It's not pink. Stop it."
Hey, look! You do have flowers here!
"Great. More stuff that makes the yard look run down."
Annnnd this is us reflected in a piece of broken mirror.
Do you have nothing to say about that one?
"Here's your $40. Go get some plants."
This was fun. Thanks.
