Not all Men have a Survival Instinct
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
And “he” puts “he/him/his” on his email signature …. Because he’s just not sure.
I’m confused. Is “Jon” the feminized version of “John”?
Seriously?
The last several years my wife worked [12 hour days] as an ICU RN, my work schedule allowed me to drive her to and from. One blizzard evening I was barely able, with the four wheel drive SUV, to get her home. I drove her to work next morning, too.
As a matter of self-preservation, I cooked supper, tho.
“Jon” is usually short for “Jonathan” or similar names, although it has gone up in popularity like spelling Sean “Shawn.”
If he’d been serious, definite use-snow-shovel-on-him thing.
(I’m a little sad that his wife actually had to go make a public statement that boiled down to “It was a joke, people.”)
It is a pitch-perfect flutter-the-eyelashes parody of Some Folks these days, right up there with the Bugs Bunny skit about “I can’t bear to see him out there in the cold like that….” (Bugs closes the window blinds so he can’t see the dog.)
I think the politician is the joke and not the tweet:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/01/10/canada-wife-shoveling-snow-twitter-photo/9155361002/
Most politicians tend to be very humorless. The ones who aren’t, Lincoln and Reagan for example, stand out because of their humor.
Can’t read the USA Today with the access pop-up, but seems the lady is pissed at folks taking offense on her behalf and thought it was nice to find a warm breakfast waiting when she’d finished decompressing.
https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/01/11/jon-reyes-wife/
When you want equality then it’s equality you get.
“What people should know is I came home from a 12-hour night shift at the hospital. It was a good night, which lately, as you can imagine, hasn’t always been the case for myself and my nursing colleagues. As I drove home, it’s my time to decompress. I arrived home before anyone was awake, after all it was a Saturday morning,” she wrote.
She continued: “As I pulled up to my driveway, I felt energy to shovel the snow that fell all night and into the morning. As many Manitobans and Canadians know, it’s a great workout. It allowed me to unwind. It’s refreshing after having worn an N95 mask almost the entire night. The weather was mild and it was quiet and peaceful.”
A loyal politician’s wife.
Devils Advocate here: Many middle aged men have died from a coronary while shoveling snow. My parents’ friend did. He was a trim military man. 51.
I’d shovel snow to keep my husband safe. I like to shovel snow. It’s so peaceful. Question: Why doesn’t this Manitoba couple have a snow blower or the neighbors pitch in for a communal snowblower?
From the looks of it, the driveway was already ploughed and what she’s doing is clean up around the vehicles and the garage door.
We had a high volume push shovel. You could special order them from the hardware store in Utica. They’re a Canadian product. Cannot imagine they are not readily available in Manitoba. There are also snow blowers, which have been readily available for 50 years.
The last time I attempted to do an entire driveway with a conventional snow shovel, it was because we’d never hired a plough service and there was too much snow for the snow blower to process. That was forty years ago.