It’s a little baroque, in fact. You see: the wife is the engineer, so she typically does the mechanical stuff. But I have the edge on upper body strength, so it’s my job to lug stuff around (like tires). Also, I’ve changed tires before and before this morning she hadn’t. And, of course, this is one of those things that you should do at least once on your own so that you know how to do it. …And that’s why I was just standing around and watching over my wife change a tire. It was a touch bizarre; usually I’m just watching as she does incomprehensible things to mechanical things. Weird to have actual opinions in this particular arena.
So that’s how my morning is going. Which is to say, not actually all that badly: the nice thing in all of this is that my wife’s home from work. We’ve already picked out the faux-English pub where we’re going to have lunch.