It might well be one of the most
painful ruses a man has ever come up with to get out of housework.
But whether it was an honest mistake – as Tomasz Paczkowski
insists it was – or not, it will probably be a while before his wife Lila asks
him to help out again.
Tomasz
is steering clear of chores from now on (Picture: CEN)
For the hapless husband is still nursing a serious injury
sustained when he lifted a hot iron to his face instead of the telephone that
rang while he was pressing clothes.
After Mrs Paczkowski said he wasn’t helping out around the
house, he decided to do the ironing while she was at work to ‘prove a point’.
‘Women are always going on about multi-tasking, so I set up the
iron, opened a beer and put the boxing on the telly,’ said Mr Paczkowski, 32,
from Elbag, Poland.
‘It started out well, but then I got so involved in the boxing
that I wasn’t really thinking about what I was doing.
‘So when the phone rang I picked up the iron by mistake and
pressed it to my ear.’
Mr Paczkowski added insult to injury when, dashing to put cold
water on the burn, he ran into the bathroom door.
‘That gave me a black eye. The pain was incredible,’ he said.
Medics say he will make a full recovery from the burns, but Mr Paczkowski
insists he’s off housework – and multi-tasking – for ever.