Lucky ducky day

I was sitting out in the duck blind when I got the call on my cell phone.

“You are going to be home by noon aren’t you,” my wife asked.

“I’m sure I will. Why?”.

“Well, I hired some guys to come clean the ducks,” she said. “I’ve been wanting to do it for a while and today was a good day.”  Isn’t that sweet?  I had just taken her on a little trip for our anniversary and I guess that’s the way she was going to pay me back.

We had an exceptional morning hunt and had a pile of ducks. Since I had help coming, I just brought everybody’s ducks home with me. Might as well get my money’s worth!

I had just gotten home, put everything away and was feeling like a nap when the doorbell rang. Two nice looking folks who said, “We’re here to clean your ducks. Can we bring our stuff inside and get started?”

Well, I was a bit surprised that they weren’t going to clean them outside, but I figured they’d clean up their mess and since my wife hired them, why not.  I went out on the carport to get the ducks and met them coming in the front door with some big old machines and a bunch of tubing. Then I read their shirts:

North Louisiana Duct Cleaning.

“Nice bunch of ducks,” they said.  “Er..uh..yes, I guess I was just about to clean them,” I said.

It took them about three hours to do their work. Same as me and the ducks. But I guess I came out pretty ducky in the end. After all, I would have never paid that much just to clean a mess of ducks.