I know, just hire a lawn service....

Ok, so the new lawn tractor arrived this morning from Home Depot. It sits in a crate waiting for me to unpack it. Next to it sits THE red Craftsman waiting for Sears to pick it up and send it to another ‘trusting customer.’

I was amazed that Home Depot actually called at 6:30 this morning to say they would be here at 7 am. I told my beautiful wife that the mower was on its way. I then told her the mower is HERE and it’s still even in the crate.

The dogs and I went out to inspect the crate and begin the removal of bolts holding it together. It is customary to load the dogs in the car first thing in the morning and go for a ‘ride’, so the dogs were less then pleased at this variation of our morning routine.

I went into our home and told my bride that the dogs and I were off for our morning ride and that I would work on the crate when I returned. I wished her well at work and said we would chat later.

As I backed out of the garage, I was careful to not back into the crate with the new mower. For a brief second, I thought I should back my wife’s car out for her so she didn’t run into the crate.

I immediately caught myself and realized I was actually buying into the whole DWA (driving while Asian) thing, and headed down the road. Heck, she knew the crate was there and she would certainly see it when she went to her vehicle.

As I drove toward Galveston Bay, I thought to call her on my cell just to give her a ‘heads up’ on the new mower in the crate sitting in the driveway. Just as soon as I realized my cell was still in the kitchen, I also chewed myself out for thinking this call was even required.

Oh sure, she had inadvertently run over a case of bottled water (then backed back over it to see what she had run over) the week before in our garage. And, yes, she had run into the Viking range that was in our garage, waiting to be delivered to my in-laws, but as she said, it wasn’t in her ‘line of sight’. It was just right in front of the car.

And maybe she had on occasion backed into a parked car or other things that weren’t in her ‘line of sight’. But, did it seem fair for me to be concerned?

I got home a few minutes ago and received a call from my bride and the conversation began with “Man, it’s a good thing that mower was in a crate…”

It really gets down to DWE, driving while an engineer. Their ‘line of sight’ would be just a nice way of saying ‘Tunnel Vision’.