I’m in the middle of making dinner last night when Matt walks in the door from work and skipped right over the “Hi, how was your day,” kissy-kissy nonsense that is usual post-work fare. When I turned around from the pot I was stirring I saw him carefully place a dusty ShopVac on my clean granite countertop with a proud flourish.
“Check out what I nabbed off the sidewalk! Our neighbor across the street was JUST GETTING RID OF THIS!”
“Great find, babe.”
“I also got a space heater,” he muttered as he plugged in the contraption right next to my stand mixer to try it out. “The guy said all this stuff worked and none of his kids wanted it so he was just putting it out on the curb.”
“What other stuff did he have?” By now I was kinda into the space heater intently remembering the thermostat wars.
“Oh, like a de-humidifier… or no… it was actually a HUmidifier.”
“WE NEED THAT! GO OUT AND GET THE HUMIDIFIER!!! WE NEED THAT FOR THE BABY!!”
“What baby?”
“The baby we’re going to eventually have! You need humidifiers for them. It like… keeps them from getting sick or something. GO OUT AND GET IT!!!”
“Ok, ok… let me just see if the ShopVac works first.”
“NO! I NEED YOU TO GET THE HUMIDIFIER NOW! THE BABY NEEEEEEEEEEEEEDS IT!”
“Ok… ok… I’m going.”
I believe Matt’s dad has aquired 3 lawnmowers and a dog crate in the same manner. Gotta love those Hofmann boys!
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:01 pm
BEST BLOG POST EVER!!! you are so funny. yes, they help people breathe easier during sleep during colds… not just babies! (but you can’t give babies cold meds, so it’s the best you can do for them.) but they are at least $25 and up, so i hope matt got to it in time! our first one broke when adam cleaned it too thoroughly. go figure.
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:33 pm
it’s a beauty straight out of 1987.
April 3rd, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Brent is more of a Hofmann boy than the Hofmann boys are. You should see the contents of our “garage”.
April 3rd, 2009 at 4:35 pm
What makes him MOST like our dad is that he put the trashpicked shopvac on the kitchen counter while you were making dinner. Littering Mom’s kitchen with tools, etc….a classic Pops move.
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:44 pm
wait hold it … as a family that already struggles with seasonal allergies, you’re taking a big risk using a used dehumidifer. unless it’s a filter-less one, i’d send it back to the heap from whence it came. ones with filters can have REALLY bad mold problems. that is, unless you know that adam has been using it (and cleaning it thoroughly) before you …
April 24th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
Nice.
My dad found me a scooter that way when I was about 8, and I loved it