You should have told him your husband was a tradesman of some kind like a carpenter or plumber. Tradesmen always go an extra mile for our counterparts in a sort of "thick as thieves" kind of way.
Yeah, I know that! It's like that in my older profession too. I still resort to my "nobility title" (
) every now and then.
I have a card up my sleeve: a friend of mine is an electrician. But he lives a bit far away and he won't want to charge me so I'll have to buy a present for his kid or some wine for him and it's a complication. Oh well, there are worse things in life.