Take-Your-Husband-and-Son-To-Work Day

Sat down with the husband and our nine-year-old son last night to watch HGTV’S House Hunters. Normally, they’re watching sports, but for whatever reason, they were watching that show.  I joined them and we saw a couple working with a realtor, looking for a five-bedroom house.   My son Sean asked me if showing houses was hard work.  I replied that it wasn’t difficult, but it was taxing.  I explained that I was always “on”, always happy, and I could never really relax while I was showing houses. 

My husband Matt chuckled and asked, “Wouldn’t it be a blast to spy on Mommy while she was showing houses?  We could hear her say, ‘And this is the dining room…'”

I replied that I don’t say that kind of thing.  I don’t point out the obvious. To which my husband responded, “What?  Do you walk into the house and become mute?”

I fixed him with the stare that comes naturally upon the instant you say ‘I do’, and explained further, “I help people connect the dots.  I don’t say, ‘Here is wood cabinetry in the kitchen.’  They can see it’s wood cabinetry for themselves.  I would say instead, ‘This looks like cherry, but it’s actually birch with a plum stain.  It really gives a high-end look without the pricetag.’  Most people can’t make that jump on their own.  They don’t know that just by observation.”

I recently read an interview with a realtor, Bryant Tutas, in which he said he didn’t sell houses; he solved problems. And, until they invented a computer program which did that, he’d still have a job. Well, my husband and son (and grandkids, for that matter), will be able to try to visualize what I do for the rest of their lives because I, too, will always have a job.  Well, I’ll have a job, that is, until they develop the elusive software which connects the dots for you, is mass produced and available for $39.99 at your local electronics store!