Me: What is your favorite thing about my knitting?
Joe: Hm…Um…It’s very intricate?
Me: What is your least favorite thing about my knitting?
Joe: It’s all-consuming (laughs).
Me: What is something I have knitted that you recall as being good?
Joe: I don’t know, that blanket I guess – that was pretty good.
Me: Do you think knitters have an expensive hobby?
Joe: It can be.
Me: Do you have any hobbies?
Joe: Yes.
Me: What are your hobbies?
Joe: Uh…Playing video games. [he was clicking away at one on the computer the whole time we talked]
Me:what else?
Joe: Golfing? Sitting around doing nothing?
Me: What about brewing beer?
Joe: Sure, I guess that’s a hobby. Why, do I not have enough hobbies?
[At this point there was an aside in the conversation]
Joe: I’m hungry.
Me: Do you want a chocolate chip cookie? [there are some baking in the oven as I type]
Joe: No, I think I might make some ramen. [Joe eats a lot of ramen - the spicy Korean kind]
Me: If we compared money spent on hobbies, who would win?
Joe: You? I don’t know, that’s a good one.
Me: Has my knitting in public ever embarrassed you?
Joe: No.
Me: Do you know my favorite kind of yarn?
Joe: Pomfret?
Me: Yes! You got it!
Joe: I pay attention – sometimes.
Me: Can you name another knit blog?
Joe: Yarn Harlot. huh. That’s hard to say.
Me: Do you mind that I want to check out yarn stores everywhere we go?
Joe: No.
Me: Do you understand the importance of a swatch?
Joe: Yes.
Me: What is it?
Joe: So you can figure out -um- how many stitches are in a certain amount of space or something like that. Is that close?
Me: [Laughing] Yes.
Me: Do you read The Heathen Housewife?
Joe: Yes..
Me: Have you ever left a comment?
Joe: Yes, I believe so.
Me: Do you think the house would be cleaner if I didn’t knit?
Joe: Yes. [pause] Maybe.
Me: Is there anything you would like to add in closing?
Joe: You people are crazy.
Ok, let me get this straight…you interviewed a man while he was playing a video game? And he answered you? And the answers pretty much matched the questions?
Wow.
I like Him
I. LOVE. THIS.
I like him, too. But be sure to impress upon him how productive our hobby is (usually); you know, heirloom stuff and all that. Maybe we aren’t so crazy.
So. Very. Funny!
Classic Joe.
That is one of the funniest things I have ever read. You have trained Joe well in the way of the swatch.
He knows what a swatch is! Give him a Klondike bar!
Very entertaining interview… and very tolerant husband…isn’t it nice when our spouses “get” our hobbies/obsessions? Blogless Mary Lou
Are you sure that your hubby doesn’t have a wife in another state? Your husband’s answers sound way too much like mine
Heh, loved that!
KEEP that MAN! LOL! What a treasure!
Too funny. Thanks for the laugh, guys.
Umm…. when Joe says “you people are crazy”…does he mean, bloggers, knitters or blogging knitters?
This was hysterical! Still, he knew the right answers. Good job.
Um.. do you think it is a coincidence that Joe is also the Yarn harlot’s hubs name????