There are many things a women likes to hear from her husband.
“I love you.”
“Let’s get ice cream!”
“I bought you diamonds! Here are those cutting blades you wanted.”
are a few.
However, “Honey, were those lamps you gave me for Christmas expensive?”
is not one of them.
My husband accidentally yanked the pull chain out of the socket when he turned off a lamp in our bedroom. He tried reattaching the pull chain. After several failed attempts, he couldn’t reattach it. He thought a new lamp was in our future.
Until I answered his question with, “Your lamps are hand-crafted stained glass imported from Ireland.”
In other words, expensive.
But easily repaired for under $5.00. I just needed to replace the lamp socket.