Cashing in

This is a true story......

Today, my dear husband calls me on the house phone. He was right outside in the driveway.  I knew this so I wondered why the heck he was calling me. "Come outside right quick please."

I being the helpful wife that I am .....went.  I see him on the 4-wheeler with a cable connected to our neighbor's lawnmower on the hill between our homes.

TH: "Jump on the mower."

Me: "Seriously?!"

TH:  "Jump on and steer it while I pull it up the drive into the garage. The battery is dead, and I need to charge it"

Me:  I get on and am steering.

Me:  "What am I supposed to do when the cable gets slack?"

Me:  "What the hell?!?! Where's the brakes!?!"  As I'm rolling backwards.  (If you don't know, we have a huge hill that is our driveway.)  I was dead in the middle of said hill, started rolling, and no longer connected to the 4-wheeler.

TH:  "It doesn't have brakes."

Me:  ......................... silence as I am keeping my mouth closed from spewing swear words b/c my son was standing there.  I turned the wheel and got the mower stopped at an angle.

Me:  "You trying to collect on my life insurance, dude?!"

Me:  "I've had enough 'helping' you.  I'm going back inside."

TH:  Laughing like a fool.