Maybe it was because her father can do it all. He can tear down an engine and rebuild it before lunch, drywall the whole house in an afternoon, and build an addition in a weekend. Growing up in that environment maybe my wife assumed that all men possess super handyman powers. I had just a split second to answer, but in that brief time, I reviewed all my options. There were three.
New husbands are a fragile lot.
There are so many opportunities for accidental humiliation. Intentional humiliation made no sense at all. I chose door number three. It will be easy to hang that wallpaper. I will spare you the horrible details of what followed.