The rug hoarder

Okay, first off I typed the story in Word and copied & pasted to the blog and I do it all the time but this is the first time the copied text was underlined and in blue.  I got it back to black but can't get rid of the underlining...go figure!

 
Before Jim & I could get new carpeting we had to tear out the old carpeting & pad and remove all of the furniture in the family room. I helped with moving all of the furniture except the aquarium and TV stand which are very heavy. He had to drain about ¾ of the water from the aquarium before it was even remotely possible to be moved. He had asked Patrick to come help him because I told him I refused to do it. Well, everything worked out good because he took my suggestion of sliding cardboard under the legs of the aquarium stand in order to slide it off of the carpeting and onto the floor in the hallway. I felt sorry for the fish. They were not happy.


Anyway, Jim & Patrick tore the old carpeting out IN ONE PIECE and drug it out to the garage where they plopped it onto the trailer that normally holds the 4-wheelers that we are selling to Jennifer. The next day I called Jennifer and left her a message saying that the old carpet was now part of the deal. When she called me back we joked around and I told her she could find a place to dump the carpet in Salem. I also told her JOKINGLY that Jim would probably use it to carpet my garage.

A couple of nights later, Jim was outside cutting the carpeting up on the driveway when I got home from work. I went inside to cook dinner and when I came back out, Jim had put a big piece of the carpeting in the garage. I just looked at it and rolled my eyes at him. He proceeded to say how he spoils me and nobody else has carpeting to park on and isn’t he so nice. I just shook my head and when I walked out of the garage, I tripped on the stupid carpeting. It had only been about 5 seconds and I already tripped! I didn’t fall or anything but I was aggravated so I went straight back in the house.


When the family came over last Saturday night for a poker party, I took Jennifer out to the garage to show her that although I was joking, I was right about what Jim would do. I’ve already blogged about Jim’s obsession with rugs in the garage so now I have one more huge rug to add making a grand total of NINE rugs in the garage. Jim has a new nickname – Lord of the Rugs.