“Remember, if the women don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy”…Red Green “Inutil” is a disparaging word which Mexican senoras frequently use to refer to their husbands when they are vexed with them. It means “non-utile,” or (this hurts), “useless.” I hear this word frequently when little things malfunction around the house. I plead guilty with an explanation: everything is different down here. Back in Washington State, I was a regular handyman, chopping firewood, mowing lawns, slapping a new set of points in the old Chevy and all kinds of useful things. But now, when Sra Brady announces that the tinaco switch is rusting out, I don’t have a clue as to what to do. I mean, what’s a tinaco? Fortunately, I am surrounded by know-it-all in-laws who are always glad to point out whatever I’m doing wrong. So our little home manages to survive any crisis, though my self esteem is in shreds. What remained of it took a real beating when I ignored her warning about the tinaco switch. We live high on a rural ridge top, and every drop of water that makes it up to the rooftop water tank known as a tinaco represents a lot of work. One day I glanced out the window to see the nice neig-hbor lady out in the street with buckets, collecting some of the torrent of precious water that was overflowing out of the tinaco on our roof. Hemingway defined courage as grace under pressure, and keeping this in mind I calmly walked out on the porch