Thursday, November 04, 2010

I'm Finished!

So, for those of you who don't know my husband Don, he is just about the nicest person you will ever meet. He is way too nice to me most of the time. Well, when Don started dental school, we bought him three pairs of ceil-blue scrubs that were his classes designated class color- which he has to wear everyday all day at school. Now, about four years later, those three sets of scrubs are getting pretty tattered and worn- (ripped, torn, worn-out in certain areas, stained with chemicals and bodily juices...you get the idea). Anyway, about two months ago, Don came home from school and plopped himself down on the couch...I couldn't help but notice the 12-inch rip down the crotch of his scrub pants. I said in a panic..."Don, don't wear those anymore...let me fix them!" He set them on my sewing table and of course I forgot about them. The next week, the same thing happened with another pair or his scrub pants. He kindly let me know that he now had a couple of pants for me to fix and that we would have to do laundry a little more often. Well, a couple weeks later, the pants were still sitting on my table, but Don is too nice to say anything to me and didn't want to hurt my feelings, so as I left one night, he took matters into his own hands. Even though he had never used a sewing machine before, he's a pretty smart guy so he thought he could figure it out. Little did he know I had been working with some really interesting fabrics lately so I had an extremely small needle on my machine with bright pink thread hooked up. Long story short, I came home to a slightly frustrated husband who had sewn his pant leg to the crotch with pink thread that was sewn so tight it was in knots. I sat for about an hour that night laughing hysterically while trying to pick out all the pink thread- imagining what he must have looked like sewing this incredible mess. I'm happy to report after many weeks of putting it off, I've just finished fixing them! I'm sorry for taking so long Don...thanks for being so patient with me. I know you can do just about anything...and I will give you sewing lessons if you want, but for now I think you might want to stay away from my machine. Oh...and we could maybe even splurge and get you some new scrubs!

7 comments:

Mary said...

I love this!

Amy said...

That is too funny!

Lauren said...

That is hilarious! The guys are going to love this story!

Kelly Bolerjack said...

I've had to repair those scrubs a lot in the past 6 months. Apparently, they only have a shelf life of 3 years. Brian can't wait to be done with them. He says he's going to burn them.

Michelle said...

Haha! Yay Mindy for finishing :) This sounds eerily familiar to Rob's new Scout shirt and about a bazillion badges needing to be sewn on at our house!

Katie Brady said...

Oh my goodness that is so funny! I wish he would've just worn the pink stiched scrubs!! That would've been awesome!

Ariana said...

i laughed at your story and can only imagine what you saw when you walked in on him trying to sew his pants. haha. pink thread and all!