At one end of our back deck we have a huge Holly bush, roughly
ten feet tall, and I am the one who usually trims it. I can reach a great deal
of it from the ground and roughly three-quarters of the top from the deck but
need a ladder to completely trim to top of Holly. Last weekend, I hauled a
ladder from the garage and set it up alongside the Holly bush, and then called
Carlos, who was edging the lawn along the fence line, to come hold the ladder
while I finished my job.
Afterwards, he went back to his mowing while I carted the
ladder back into the garage and then mowed the back lawn and cleaned up some
other shrubbery that needed a cut.
Later, I was in the office and Carlos came back and said:
“Do I need to put the ladder away?”
“No, I put it away when I was finished.”
“Okay.”
We did some inside housework, and then I cooked dinner and
after that I was back in the office doing some more paperwork when Carlos
appeared in the doorway and said:
“Do I need to put the ladder away?”
“No, I put it away when I was finished.”
“Okay.”
“Um, are you Groundhogging me or gaslighting me?”
“Why?”
“Because you asked me that question a few hours ago.”
“I don’t remember … ”
Groundhogging, I think. |