Cindy vs. Canoe – Round I
Posted By Cindy on January 29, 2010
For those of you that haven’t heard, Nate bought a canoe last week. Yep…a canoe. In the middle of winter. But that’s okay. He got a good price on it and he has assured us that we will have lots of fun in the canoe this summer! Hopefully, it will not just be a lawn ornament in our backyard.
Anyway…he went to pick it up on Wednesday night. Even though I had planned to go to bed early that night, I had to stay up until 10:30 (this is late for me!) to help get the canoe off the top of Nate’s car. We get outside and I positioned myself to hold the back of the canoe while Nate got the front. There are handles on both ends and I grab the handle with my left hand.
We start to lift the canoe off the roof of the car and all of a sudden I realize that this canoe weighs 85+ pounds! Holy cow! My left hand snaps backwards and then begins rotating around the wrong way. The canoe, which was upside down, starts swinging over! I realize…through the pain in my hand…that if we don’t do something, the momentum from the canoe is going to cause it to swing around and crash right into the side of Nate’s car…so I twist my wrist the other way and throw myself between the car and the canoe. The canoe slams into me.
My hand released the canoe and the screaming starts! My poor neighbors probably thought I was insane! To make matters worse, we still had to get the canoe around back. So with my left hand throbbing, I pick up the stupid thing with my right hand and we carry it to the backyard where it is safely resting right now. So in this fight…the canoe won (and in case you were wondering my hand is okay…thank goodness!). Next time canoe, you might not be so lucky!
Yikes!!! I am glad you are okay!
I guarantee fun and good times in the canoe this summer. Also I won’t ever make you take it off the car again w/ snow on the ground and gloves on – from now on it will be at least 50 degrees and I will make you take your gloves off. Myself and my car greatly appreciate your heroics b/c I don’t think we would still have a canoe if it attacked my car – it has the same rules as Wrigley does w/ the babies…
Alas, the myth that wives have the upper body strength to carry heavy objects has passed to the next generation of husbands. I can’t tell you how many times Mike has assured me that “you can do it” only to have me prematurely drop whatever we were carrying. The good news is that there were never any serious human injuries. The bad news is some of the objects weren’t quite so lucky. I’m glad both Cindy and the canoe made it.