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I drive and I push « Walnuts on My Windshield

We have a saying in our family that I often use when things get too complicated for me and/or are outside my jurisdiction:  “I drive.”  It means, “I don’t know about that,” or “I can’t do anything about that.”  As in, Scott decides which route we are going to take, but I drive.  I really like driving, especially on long trips.  Driving is very relaxing for me.

Today I added another phrase:  “I push.”  It means that when Andrew turned on the riding mower (which was serviced at Doc’s Mowers for a cost of over – and Doc had it for over a WEEK this time, putting a drive belt on it – and it came home yesterday afternoon and Josiah used it for his part of the yard and it was fine, thank goodness) . . . As I was saying, when Andrew backed the rider out of the lawn building this afternoon to do his part of the mowing, the drive belt fell off and I told him that he’d have to do his part of the yard with the (brand new – thank you, Scott!) push mower, he said he will get the pay you would normally receive for doing it.  And while I do your mowing, you will do my cleaning chores.”  And thus did it happen.

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