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Painting
the house
One March day my wife said
that the house needed painting. "It's still winter," I
replied. "Forget it."
In April, she told me she had bought some exterior latex(齺ᣩ.
I said that it was still too cold to paint.
In May, I heard her outside one day yelling for help, and we set up the
ladder so she could start painting. Then I went inside to get a beer.
As I sat in a lawn chair not far from where my wife was working, a neighbor
passed by. "Aren't you ashamed?" she asked. "How
can you sit there drinking beer while your wife is up on a ladder painting
the house?"
Glancing up at my wife, I responded, "She doesn't like beer."

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