A local father-to-be is honored for the hard work he did
around the house on Saturday, while his wife “just puked all day”.
Jon Rhett goes on to say, “I mean, the dishes weren’t going
to do themselves, right? Some of the bowls had cereal stuck on them so they
were very hard to wash. I learned you have to let those soak because I cut
myself on a sharp Frosted Flake that had adhered to the side of the bowl.” He
then held up his middle finger which was indeed bandaged.
It wasn’t just the dishes that he helped with, though. Jon
also vacuumed the living room (“I ate the cereal in there; I dropped a couple
pieces”) and also used a hand towel to wipe off the sink in the bathroom.
“After I did that, I threw it on the bathroom floor and did a little foot
mopping. My wife spends almost three hours a day, every day, in here doing the
Technicolor yawn. You’d think she would have gotten all of the ick off the
floor, at least. But no, there was still a spot or two behind the toilet. Or
maybe just a misfire from the old piss-cannon. Either way, our bathroom hasn’t
looked this good in months,” he said. “I just threw the hand towel I used on
the floor back up on the rack. Didn’t want to make extra laundry.”
The two are expecting their first child in a few months. Jon
said his wife, Sega, claims to be suffering from “hyperemesis gravitadarum” almost
since the day she got pregnant. “Oh, sure I Googled it,” he relates. “And of
course some pregnant ladies throw up a lot. But that’s usually only for the
first couple of months. My wife seems to really be drawing this out—I’m
starting to think it’s intentional so she can get out of housework. I mean, I
get it, though. Sometimes my stomach is a little upset. Every single Saturday
morning, I feel exactly the same way. I’m hungover after Friday nights with my
bros. But as you can clearly see, I was still able to do some housework even
though I didn’t feel well. It really is just mind over matter. Take some Pepto,
am I right? Some preggos run marathons clear up until their ninth month, I read
somewhere. We all just gotta deal.”
When asked if he attends obstetrician appointments with his
wife, Jon laughingly shook his head. “The last time we went together, we took
my new pickup. Do you know how hard it is to clean puke out of floor mats? She had
to buy me new ones because even though she used toothpicks on the grooves, some
things just don’t come out. It still smells in there.”
One of Jon’s bros, Charlie Pratt, submitted his name and a
small story describing his momentous aid and personal sacrifice to an online
contest on “Everyday Husbands”, a small Facebook group of newly married men.
When the admins of Everyday Husbands called Jon to let him know he won the prize
(limo service to a local steakhouse and $100 gift card to the restaurant), no
one was more surprised than his wife.
Jon said, “It’s almost as if she wasn’t excited that I won
something.” When asked when he planned on using the winning limo ride and dinner
prize with her, he told our reporter, “You know, I’m not really sure she’s
going to be up for going out to dinner anytime soon. I’ll probably invite my
friend Charlie from the group; his wife is expecting triplets and I imagine
he’s probably going stir crazy,” he chuckled. “We could both use a night out
from our respective ball-and-chains. Besides, this is a treat for my wife too.
Now she won’t have to make me dinner whatever night Charlie and I decide to go.
Plus she’d probably throw it up anyway. And now she won’t have to do dishes
that night either.”
We tried to reach Jon’s wife for comment on his prize, but
our calls were not returned.
