Can a man out there please tell us women which secret code words to use, to get our man to fix something around the house?

Why is it that a man cannot see anything that is broken inside the house?  I’ve heard of “selective hearing”, but dang!, there’s “selective seeing” too?  I mean, we’re both inside the same house.  How come guys can’t see when things are broken?  Is it so hard to see when the water doesn’t go down the drain in the bathroom?  What about the little light bulb inside the dryer that went out?  Oh, that’s right, men don’t use dryers, because they don’t do the laundry!  What about the two, not one, but two! drawers in the hallway that are now sticking out, because they won’t close properly?  How many times can a person kick the drawer on their way down the hallway, and not want to fix it?  Telling me the drawer is an easy fix  doesn’t fix it.

And worse yet?  The words “I’ll get to it”!  Once again, there seems to be a difference in time reference for men and women regarding when “I’ll get to it” will actually happen.

For a woman, “I’ll get to it”  means that as soon as her man has a moment, he will get to fixing that drain, or that drawer.  And, to us women, that is okay… if he actually gets to it.      I mean, let’s give our men a break.  Sometimes, they are actually busy.  You know, their football game is only 4 hours long, so they’ll get to it.  Or, they are laying around on the couch, and don’t want to get up right away, so they’ll “get to it”.   Or, what’s one more week, because they FORGOT they said they’d “get to it”, and forgot all about it?

What if I said “I’ll get to it” when my guy is hungry and wants dinner?  Ohhhhh!, I’m not sure those words would go over so well, right ladies?  I guess I could always say “I’ll hold off on dinner until the drain is fixed, so your food won’t get cold, honey”.  That might motivate him to get the drain fixed.  Actually, it probably wouldn’t.

One way, and so far the only way, I have found to get my broken drain or drawer the attention they deserve, was to tell my guy that I would call and get it fixed.  Of course this gets our guy’s attention, because while we’re saying “Look, don’t bother, I want this thing fixed soon”, our guy hears “We’re going to pay some other guy to come and do what you said you’d get to”.  Not sure yet if it’s our man’s ego that gets bruised, or if it’s the threat of us relying on another man we don’t even know to get things done.  Heck, doesn’t really matter, does it?  I look at it this way:  if it’s their ego, or if it’s us relying on some other guy to come and fix things, the point is this: if our man really cared, he’d “get to it”.  And to be honest, I’m not sure us women really care WHO fixes things, as long as they get fixed.

So, for the men who tell their women “I’ll get to it”,  all we ask is this:  don’t tell us you’re going to “get to it”, if you’re not.  We’d rather be told the truth.  If you don’t have plans to fix the drain, the drawer, or whatever else breaks in the house, then tell us so.  We don’t really care who fixes things, so long as things get fixed.  Seems simple, right?