A stubborn woman I am

When we moved into our house the ice make never worked. Both Aly and myself are not exactly handy around the house and so we have a handyman on speed dial that handles our around the house needs. Don't be dirty. We're just talking about things like a leaky sink or things like that. It would've been easy enough to have him replace the ice maker but why? We have four people in the house that can make ice. Every once in awhile I like to have the old school methods in the house and making ice seemed easy enough. Fill a tray with water...how easy can that be? Well let me tell you, it's become a "thing". A thing that complain about on a daily basis because it's one of those household chorse that most poeple do not like to do. I never knew this. I mean you empyt out the ice into the ice bucket and then fill the empty trays with water. Simply enough but the truth is, when you just want a drink of water with some ice you don't feel doing the whole ice thing. It would be so easy to just take the work out of the whole deal and get an ice maker but I just can't. I have squarely planted my feet and will not give into buying an ice maker, the only problem is that no one in the house will make ice. I'm sure every household has something the family all faces off about and this is our thing...well actually my thing. I watch that damn ice bucket like a hawk. I tell the kids over and over, if you take ice then make ice. Why yes I did make up that catchy little phrase myself, thank you very much. It's summer time, hot as hell where we live and we go through ice like crazy. I go to make a cold drink for myself and there I am mumbling like a crazy woman...nobody made ice again, only like two ice cubes in the bucket. Sometimes I go on strike and won't make ice. The kids and Aly just find this amusing more than anything. One day Aly was at work telling a co-worker about the ice Nazi she is married to when her co worker was like uhhhh hold on.....you don't have an ice maker? What the hell? Do you have running water? Indoor bathrooms? Electricity? Internet service from something other than your phone line? I mean she was certain that we were one step away from being Amish....although I do have a fascination with the Amish lifestyle, making your own ice is hardly that primitive. So my lovely spouse casually says to me, hey Babe, why don't we just save ourselves this whole ice headache and get an new ice machine. Hell no! We shall make ice!! Why? I don't. I can't remember. There was a principle or something about it all. I guess.... I just don't think that it shouldn't be that hard for four people to make ice. This is when she kinda pets my arm and smiles that smile that says....yup your just this side of crazy and stubborn but I love you anyhow.