Oh, Hey, By The Way…

Help me make sense of this:

If you are installing cabinets in a kitchen as part of a small remodel project, (so not new construction or total remodel, meaning you have electricity, light fixtures, etc.) and you began installing these cabinets a few weeks ago, (and therefore should be damn near done if not already done) what do you suppose you’d need a 10,000 lumen flood/drop light that cost $100 for? The room the cabinets are being installed in have not only the funtioning light fixtures, but also the added light from multiple skylights, and the added fact that you already own a decent number of these types of lights at home, a fifteen minute jaunt down the street from the jobsite, only a couple of minutes (literally) further than the hardware store you bought the light from?

You also had to make your fourth or maybe fifth trip to the cabinet supplier to get more cabinets, despite having the entire set picked up weeks ago… Like, where are you putting an entire kitchen’s worth of additional cabinets? Did the client suddenly decide to remodel their hidden bonus kitchen? Are you trying to get the new trend of cabinets on the ceiling to catch on? Or rooftop cabinets? Cabinets inside of the cabinets? Or in the crawlspace, where they will be nice and useful?

Oh, I almost forgot to mention…. The color of the kitchen cabinets the client chose and that got installed were one color, and the additional cabinets that you picked up are not just a completely different color altogether but not even the same style whatsoever.

So… Let’s summarize. You are/have:
1. Purchased cabinets that don’t go in the kitchen you’re allegedly working on.
2. Purchased tools that you already have to install cabinets in a kitchen that’s already had the cabinets installed.
3. You’re lying, usually daily, about where you are working and what you are doing, voluntarily, not because you’ve been pressed or badgered or even asked at all but just…. Well, I don’t know why.
4. Have, over the last couple of days, at no obvious intervals or schedule, gone from being abnormally attentive and present all the way to the other end of the spectrum of ignoring your partner completely and it feeling like you both live totally alone…
5. On at least three occassions gotten so drunk that you made yourself sick… And on the only day you ‘had off’ you drank NINE beers (9% beers too) before noon and were falling over and so unbearable that your partner felt obligated to take your toddler and leave for hours in hopes that you passed out or at least sobered up.
6. Almost forgot: Also lied about having phone service to your partner for well over a week.

OK. I think I’ve covered a majority of this specific issue. Help me dissect it. What in the hell do you think is at work here? Don’t hold back. Give it to me straight.

Love and Respect,
O.P.