I’ve been married for 9 year. For 9 years, people have asked me “what does your husband do?”. For the first 6 years, I answered “he’s in graduate school”, which was of course met with the “what’s he studying?” question. I would answer “chemistry” and then usually awkwardly say something about polymers or shear or x-ray spectography, and then I would laugh and admit that I really have no idea what he studies all day. Now when people ask me, I say he’s a research chemist, and of course, the next question is always “what does he research?” I pretty much give the same answer as before, minus the spectography part because I’ve come to find out that I sort of made that part up.
The other night at dinner, I had to most classic conversation with Derek ever. I’m not sure if Ryan (Derek’s bff) still reads this, but I really think he’d appreciate this. He knows how maddening it can be just having a simple conversation.
M-“Okay, random, but I just remembered that Juli Beth asked me to ask you if you could please invent a Swiffer that actually works.”
D-“I have nothing to do with the Swiffer. That’s Procter and Gamble.”
M-“Well, I know. But I thought you did research on the stuff that Swiffers are made of.”
D-“No. I don’t do anything with the swiffer.”
M-“No, you’ve told me this. I thought you worked on the very basic particles of the Swiffer. I thought you invented that stuff and then sold it to Procter and Gamble, and then they make the Swiffer.”
D-“No, I make pellets that are used to make better non-woven materials.”
M-“And then what will you do with the better materials?”
D-“Make a better swiffer.”
We both just cracked up. So, JB, don’t worry. He’s on it. But let’s just be perfectly clear that he does not work with the actual Swiffer.
Hey girl! Glad I found your blog! You are so funny! I think we are SO alike! You see, I like to ramble too! Anyways – I didn’t realize how close ours babies were to eachother. Well, maybe I did and then forgot again. Highly likely! Yep, I think that’s the case. Kasen is crawling!!! Army man, but that still counts! He’ll be 6 mths next week! Hope you guys are all healed now! There’s some yucky stuff going around! Talk to you later. Oh, this is Becky Cox – Megan’s Becky friend! : )
Classic DT.
seriously, our hubby’s would totally get along.
LOL! I’m glad that you told me that. I was telling my mom the other day that Derek was working on making the swiffer better for us! lol!!
I am laughing right now because I can totally relate. When people ask me what Andy does, I just tell them he’s some sort of refining specialist. I have no idea what that really means. I have actually called him from the pediatrician’s office to ask him what on earth I’m supposed to put as his occupation. I always say that when he talks about work, all I hear is Charlie Brown’s teacher. I’ve stopped even pretending to understand. But I totally speak swiffer, so tell D thanks for me.:)
Thanks for the clarification! That is hilarious!!! I’m really glad we will someday have a better swiffer.