Oh. My. Gosh. SADIE! This is beautiful. You said it much better and more thoroughly than I did. And I agree, seeing men do manly things is SO sexy.
I remember about 7 years ago I was in a salon getting my hair done. There were four other ladies (clients) in there and The Deadliest Catch was playing on the TVs. I had heard of the show, but never watched it. Anyway, these ladies knew the names of each man on the show and they swooned every time one of them spoke, it seemed. I was interiorly amused and didn’t understand what was sexier about these men than other men. Come to find out they were married to men with desk jobs. Nothing wrong with men like that -- we NEED them! But, apparently their men never labored in the midst of their womanly gazes. Instead, hiring out labor-intensive work. And I get it -- toiling away all week, whether doing road construction or accounting sucks and is exhausting. My own husband is an auto-technician, sometimes working six days a week and often long hours for his pay is connected to how many cars (Maserati & Alfa Romeo) he turns over, and he is (in my view) the sexiest man alive! I love watching him build things and fix things at home. ^swoon^
I haven’t read the Steinbeck book you quoted, but it is PERFECT!
Exactly! Hubs works as an electrical engineer on a boat in the Bering Sea and listening to him talk shop when he is off, here at home on the phone, can be a real turn on. Lol. And...he can fix anything. Sometimes he gets on my last nerve, but as I say to him "Spock, I feel better about your guesses than other men's facts." Haha.
Oh. My. Gosh. SADIE! This is beautiful. You said it much better and more thoroughly than I did. And I agree, seeing men do manly things is SO sexy.
I remember about 7 years ago I was in a salon getting my hair done. There were four other ladies (clients) in there and The Deadliest Catch was playing on the TVs. I had heard of the show, but never watched it. Anyway, these ladies knew the names of each man on the show and they swooned every time one of them spoke, it seemed. I was interiorly amused and didn’t understand what was sexier about these men than other men. Come to find out they were married to men with desk jobs. Nothing wrong with men like that -- we NEED them! But, apparently their men never labored in the midst of their womanly gazes. Instead, hiring out labor-intensive work. And I get it -- toiling away all week, whether doing road construction or accounting sucks and is exhausting. My own husband is an auto-technician, sometimes working six days a week and often long hours for his pay is connected to how many cars (Maserati & Alfa Romeo) he turns over, and he is (in my view) the sexiest man alive! I love watching him build things and fix things at home. ^swoon^
I haven’t read the Steinbeck book you quoted, but it is PERFECT!
Exactly! Hubs works as an electrical engineer on a boat in the Bering Sea and listening to him talk shop when he is off, here at home on the phone, can be a real turn on. Lol. And...he can fix anything. Sometimes he gets on my last nerve, but as I say to him "Spock, I feel better about your guesses than other men's facts." Haha.
Haha I feel exactly the same way! Are we sisters, somehow? 😀