According to Merriam-Webster, Mansplain definition is - to explain something to a woman in a condescending way that assumes she has no knowledge about the topic.
As you can imagine, this is something I am not unfamiliar with.
Example: This summer I had to get a new exhaust system....three times. When I took my car back the first time I told the mechanic it sounded like something was loose, maybe not bracketed down. Five minutes later he proclaimed it was a defective muffler and he would happily replace it. Two weeks later when my car started making the same noises I returned to the garage and this time the guy looks at me and says "Well... the chances of you getting two defective mufflers is.. slim." I lean back looking him in the eye and tell him "Ya know what? I came to that same conclusion. Which leads us back to I don't think you guys installed this properly.... either time."
Flash forward to next mansplaining with a quick back story. I have a dead tree in my backyard that is scheduled to be cut down in about 10 days. It was supposed to have happened 9 days ago but the storms that wiped out power all over town made my tree a low priority, understandably. So imagine my surprise a couple of weeks ago when, on a perfectly sunny day while I was chilling on my back deck, a huge limb fell out of my neighbor's walnut tree and ripped the internet line from the side of my house. I had KU and Spectrum out to clear the limbs and re-run the line to my house. So to recap, I have a dead oak tree with zero leaves and dead limbs hanging by a thread and my neighbor has a very green, healthy walnut tree. Healthy tree is losing limbs, creating chaos. Dead tree is just standing there.
So I am telling my son about the tree incident and he says "How do you know is was his tree and not your dead tree that dropped the limbs?"
(Blinks. Look at him wondering how this was my spawn) "Because the limb was covered in GREEN LEAVES and walnuts......and I was sitting on the deck and WATCHED. IT. HAPPEN."
So today I finally get a chance to speak to the guy who owns the house next door to me. I am telling him the story about HIS tree and informed him that I have a tree service coming to address my dead tree, would he like to have them address HIS tree the same day? Dude, swear to God, looks at me and says "That tree is healthy, no need to do anything to it is there? I mean, do YOU see any dead limbs on it?"
(Blinks. Sigh.) "It's not dead (Moron), you're right (I was amazed too). It's full of walnuts that are weighing down the healthy branches and causing them to snap off. It has pulled my lines down.... SO the tree service will be here on the 9th to work on my dead tree and they will be cutting off anything of yours (and I do mean anything) that is hanging over my fence."

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