Ready or Not, Here I Quit (standard:humor, 909 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Sep 19 2021	Views/Reads: 951/687	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Sometimes that agreement is simply a mutual understanding of the differences between each other. The secret to this is not to quit but to keep moving forward.

I do not quit easily. When I start a project, I like to work until it's
finished. I hate to quit before something is completed. 

One thing I have learned through the years is not to start something
unless I have the time and resources to finish it. How many projects I 
started in the past and somehow ran out of steam or resources and never 
got to finish it. 

When I start a project, I am obsessed with finishing it on time. 

My problem is I have difficulty planning, scheduling and balancing
certain projects. I often take on more than I could possibly do. 

Such is not the case with the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage.
Whatever she takes on and how much she takes on can always be finished 
on time. How she does it is beyond my understanding. 

The only project I can finish on time is eating. I have no problem
finishing this project every day. 

The thing that bothers me is that many times I take on several projects
and get them confused. I see a project I want to do and I jump at it. 
It doesn't matter if I have half a dozen other projects on the table, 
if I like it, I want to do it. 

One time I thought I would partner with the Gracious Mistress of the
Parsonage for several projects. As I looked at her project list, they 
all had something to do with crafts. I may be a lot of things, but I 
certainly am not crafty. 

I can go into her craft room, look at all of her tools, and not know
what in the world they are or what they are for. I'm not a tool kind of 
a person like my wife is. 

Last summer, for example, we had the air conditioner guy come to fix our
air conditioner. He looked at it and said he knew exactly what was 
wrong, but he didn't have the right tool to fix it and so he had to go 
back to his office and get it. 

“What tool,” my wife said to him, “do you need to fix it?” 

He looked at her, laughed, and said, "Ma'am, I'm sure you don't have
anything near the kind of tool that I will need." 

“Tell me what it is?” 

He looked at her, smiled, and then describe the tool that he needed to
fix the AC problem. 

“Oh,” my wife said as she made her way back to the garage. “I think I
have that tool in my garage.” 

He laughed until she came back from the garage with the exact tool he
needed to fix the problem. He just stared at her and didn't know what 
to say. 

If she doesn't have the tool, there is no problem and nothing to fix. 

It's one thing to have a project, but it's another thing to have the
tools to finish the project on time. 

There is one project that I have been working on for years. Maybe it's
about time I quit that project. 

The project is, to understand how my wife manages to do all of those
things? 

I good go and ask her but you know what that would mean. I wouldn't
understand anything she was saying. 

Where she got all that skill to work with all the tools that she has is
far beyond me. 

I must say she has saved me a lot of money through the years. If I had
something sound wrong with my vehicle, she would immediately go out, 


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