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How Many Sons-In-Law Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb?

More than one, evidently, but in a pinch one can do the job, just barely.

My mother-in-law's hall light burned out and it's a dark, dark hallway, so light is essential. I climb the ladder and unscrew the decorative globe and remove the bulb. It goes into the trash and I rob a one-way bulb from a three-way lamp, replacing it with the right kind of bulb.

Meanwhile I wash the globe to rid it of the dessicated roach bodies. Yuck!

Up the ladder again and in goes the bulb. I test it, and, yes, it shines nice and bright! So down the ladder to fetch the now-dry globe.

Another trip up the ladder and discover the replacement bulb is too long for the globe. I unscrew the bulb and dismount. (I'm not sure one really dismounts a ladder, but remember, I'm a cowboy so any chore I can even remotely relate to horses I will so relate!) I scrounge around in the hall closet among a true plethora (check the dictionary meaning) of light bulbs and find a short-enough one.

Up the ladder I go, in goes the bulb, flick goes the light switch...and the bulb doesn't work. For some reason she's saved a burned-out light bulb. Off the ladder again and the spent bulb joins the first one in the trash. I stick my head into the closet once more and find another short-enough bulb. Correct wattage and all.

I re-mount the ladder again (cowboy, remember, I'm a cowboy) and install the third Bulb Of the Day. Does it work? YES! There is light!

The sparkling clean, roach-free globe is secured into place and there is now beautiful diffused light in the hallway.

Dang...with the light on now everyone can see how badly that hall carpet needs to be vacuumed!

But that's a job for a cowgirl.

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