Yes, I Can Help!(you may be better off without it)
Being one of the senior members in our family, the younger generation often asks me for advice. Upon my return yesterday, I received this email from one of my nieces.
Dear Uncle Cat,
I need your advice. As you know, my husband is between jobs for the last six months and yesterday morning my car broke down while going to work. I had to walk about a mile back home to enlist my husband’s help; useless as he is. When I got home, I caught him in bed with the twenty-year old daughter of our neighbor. I confronted him and he admitted to having an affair with her for the last six months. I fear my marriage is on the rocks and I don’t know what to do.
Your niece Annie.
Lucky for her, I have lots of experience regarding her dilemma. I’m including my reply in case any of you people should run into the same problem at some stage.
Dear Annie,
I noticed that your husband does not know much about the internal combustion engine. When a car stalls after being driven a short distance, the cause can be one or more of many things. Start by checking if the choke does not stick. If not, check the vacuum pipes and hoses on the inlet manifold. You may also check for bare wires shorting against the engine. If that is not the problem, check for dirt in the fuel line. If none of the above solves the problem, it may be the fuel pump failing to get enough fuel to the carburetor. If you cannot solve the problem, give me a call and I’ll come over to sort it out.
Your uncle Cat.
She did not come back to me yet, so I can only assume the she got it sorted out. This is the problem with today’s youth. They never come back to say thank you.
Print this blog and keep it somewhere. You may need it in the future.
You have a great day out there.
Comments (57)
Now, I go back to my afternoon nap
I hope you find it helpful.
Or, were you comparing cars with men?
but that was the only problem she had. The rest of the detail is normal life, not so?
I know, men are wired up for technical & mechanical problems and all the other things that happen in life are just "normal", as far as they are concerned...
Then tell her to go and see a psychologist or a marriage counselor?
That affair has been going for six months and another few days is not going to end the world. What is important is that she must get her car going so she can get to work. Remember, her husband is out of work. One has to prioritize your problems.
Her husband might not be of an expert in car mechanics, but he also has other priorities at the moment and, but the look of it, he doesn´t really care so, why should she?
I feel to blame for this. She lost her father (my brother) early and she spent eight years in my home. I should have taught about her these things.
If she could have fixed the car where it broke down, the walk home would not have been necessary. She would not have caught her husband on the job and her marriage would have been save.
I failed my late brother.
This is the problem with women. They stare themselves blind against unimportant detail like infidelities while the miss the real problem.
This is but a joke.
I only have two nieces and they are both in stable marriages. We embrace the spouses of our family members. We make them feel so welcome in the family that they will never step over the line.
You wouldn't want to be the next Lorena Bobitt there, would you?!?
Thank youuuuuuuu for your advice uncle cat, it helps us indeed
Have a great day
Oh my, but you are aggressive. Why all this fuzz about a guy having a bit of fun between the sheets. At least he was not hopping from bed to bed. He brought her to his own bed.
I did, but she is a clever girl. She knew who would have ended up cleaning the mess.
I think Bea is just bragging. She faints when she sees blood.
Uncle Cat? You sound just like my niece now. I almost asked you if you got the car going.
Even new Cars can give problem. Many years ago I bought a brand new Mini Clubman GT and the next day it had no brakes. It had to go back for three days. Can you imagine how pleased I was?
Anyhow, I've often thought of that scenario where I'd stumble upon my husband with another woman on our marital bed. Well, thank goodness I was spared of that but I did come close to something like that several times.
After the kids came along, I let myself go. Never bothered to look nice or dressed up for any occasion.
Cat, this pic was taken slightly more than 3 years ago. My girlfriends and I were celebrating my birthday in the coolest club there is in Macau, at The Lion's Bar at MGM's. Even for that special occasion, I didn't take the trouble to doll up and look nice. Such a far cry from today..... Now, I even apply a dash of lipstick to get some milk at the nearby convenient store!!
Are you kidding? When I was young you could fix a car with a pair of pliers and a piece of wire. Now everything is controlled by an on-board computer. I won't even open my car's bonnet. You cannot get anywhere near the engine.
as long as we are alive, the problems would be around, so keep alive!
Anything can fail. Nothing is foolproof. Normally, if it does not fail withing the first 24 hours, it will work ok. This is especially so with electronic products. Let it stand on for the first few days while you can still have it replaced iso repaired.
Lorena Bobitt got away with temporary insanity. I'll take my chances too.
Are you sure you are the person I know? Goodness Gracious Me! I don't want to cross swords with you.
In fact your niece know what to do with her husband by herself. Therefore you have gave good advice.
Plus He's never ran to me about his problems.Relationships or otherwise.
I'm getting out of here.
Clever girl. Though I can fix a car sometimes, I cannot fix matrimonial problems. But then you realized that I was only jesting with the 'insensitivity' of men. If this really happened, I would have been there in double quick time to knock his block off.
I love the children of my siblings.
OK, Then you don't have to print this blog.
But I really though that if people read the problem and the solution, they would realize that it is a joke. I would not slab my family's business on the blogs. Some of them are members here.
I have been here for three years. How much longer will it take before the people will get to know me?
I didn't misread your blog! I was joking too!
Gotcha!...
Senior Citizen You!....
Ol, you got me. Now what are you going to do with me?
Some money do talk!...
PS. Its The 4 of July! At my house. And I am barbecuing on my patio.
I'm on my way.
Sands is also coming.