Since Kyle called in sick my wife volunteered to come to the K of C Hall with me yesterday to help me get it ready for their weekly Bingo night. She is a real life saver sometimes; if I had to do it alone it would take a very long time!
She spent her time setting up the tables and putting out clean ashtrays, and cleaning up the kitchen while I concentrated on the floor care. I’m very fussy when it comes to the carpet cleaning there, and I am the one responsible for the proper use of the Hall’s commercial vacuum cleaners, so I told her that I’d take care of it while she did the kitchen.
While my wife was scrubbing degreaser on the hood of the exhaust fan one of the K of C member’s wives came into the Hall and started to berate my wife for a maintenance problem that neither one of us have anything to do with! My poor wife couldn’t get a word in edgewise for several minutes, she just stood there quietly and let the woman rant. After a couple of minutes I heard the woman’s voice and stopped my work and went into the kitchen to see what was going on. When I saw what was happening I walked in between the two of them and told the lady that she was barking up the wrong tree and to take her complaints to the right place. Boy was she upset!
My wife and I had a good laugh about that when we had the Hall to ourselves again!