Does it make any sense at all that someone does not know how to sew on a button? The Boyf is seriously in danger of becoming a cliché! It’s not that he can’t actually – it’s more that he won’t. I have offered to show him how…given that he manages to hold down a fairly good full time job I must assume that he is capable of learning this elementary skill. However for some reason he just won’t pay any attention to it.
This morning he mentioned a button had cracked on a new shirt, when I asked him how he was going to attach a new one he said he had planned to take it to an alteration place down the road. How embarassing would that be?, to be charged at least a fiver for such a simple job. So I said to him – why don’t you ask me to do it and he said because you would just tell me off for asking you, to which I replied – I have no problem sewing on a button for you, but you will still have to suffer through the accompanying lecture regarding how easy it is if you would only learn… I’m pretty sure that at that point he was asking himself if it was worth hearing it all again or just squandering that fiver instead. I think I’m fighting a losing battle and that the next time a button needs sewn on I should just do it and he can take the lecture as read.
(In his defence and in the interests of presenting a balanced view, there are things he is good at which I do not want to get better at – such as repairing punctures and blowing up bike tyres…)
