{"id":11562,"date":"2009-10-09T13:52:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T21:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11562"},"modified":"2009-10-09T13:55:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T21:55:26","slug":"i-lubricated-her-hinges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11562","title":{"rendered":"I Lubricated Her Hinges"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was back in her apartment for the first time in three months. I went to the bathroom to see if my toothbrush was still there.<\/p>\n

It was not.<\/p>\n

I had my WD40<\/a> with me and I went around her cupboards and lubricated all her hinges. Many of them had the most god-awful squeak.<\/p>\n

"Now I know you have not had a man in your life for many years," I said. "No man would put up with such squeaky hinges."<\/p>\n

She was helpless before the squeaking and had just ignored the problem for years.<\/p>\n

A few days before, I had read John Updike’s novel "The Widows of Eastwick<\/a>." It has a line in there about one of the witches having squeaky hinges because of a lack of a man in her life to lubricate things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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