Tommys Thoughts

We got 3 to 6 inches of snow last night, so like the good husband, I got up and went out to clean off the driveway before we ran it over with the cars. This is the 3rd snow this year, but the first to have a lot of snow to clear. As with the 1st and 2nd snow I got out there this morning and started pulling on the cord (foreplay). I pulled for 15 mins, the same as last night and the 2 previous times I tried to get this thing going except this time I didn’t kick it across the garage. Though I know it won’t make it start, it does make me feel better while I’m out there shoveling. I have noticed this year that the primer button (a little round rubber button that you push down to put gas into the chamber) was cracked and peeling back. I wondered if all the pushing I had done with it wasn’t doing anything so I peeled it back and saw that there was a round white circle with a small hole in the center. Thinking how the button works, I got to thinking that if I blow in the hole the same way the button would this might solve my problem. So I got down there, blew into the hole, stood up and pull the cord. The blower roared to life and I was happily blowing the snow off my driveway. And saving my back from having to shovel. I guess I will have to take the blower in and this fixed, because I’m not going to bend down and give the blower a blow job every time I want it to start.