I Shoulda Just Stayed Home

[crokett]

not my home, but at the cabin.

Rainy day today so the decision was made to head into town. Laundromat, a kids' consignment store then Wally World. I went cause I wanted a filet knife and some books from Wally World. We dropped my FIL at the laundromat then went to the consignment place. Over an hour later we finally left a 700sfqt store. My wife wants to go across the street to another one 'just to check'. 45 minutes later we left that one but now it is almost 1:00 and we have fussy, hungry kids. So we went to get my FIL then stopped at a grocery store on the way home to get them some lunch. I made the mistake of saying something in the car on the way home and of course it was my fault for not saying something to my wife earlier while she was still shopping. Never mind that whenever I've done that in the past I've gotten in trouble for it, plus I'm in trouble now for saying something. Oh and we never made it to Walmart so I still have no books to read and can't filet any more bass I catch.

[cgallery]

If my wife encouraged me to purchase, move, then reconstruct a shop building (taking God knows how many hours), I woulda kept my mouth shut (or found something else to do in town) while she hit the resale shops for a couple of hours.

Don't get me wrong, I realize that waiting around was probably excruciating. But just think shop thoughts.

[dbhost]

Not to hit too hard on this, but you need to buy her some flowers, run her a nice bubble bath, pour some champagne, and back out of the room nice and slow...

I HATE it when I say something stupid to LOML...

[crokett]

If my wife encouraged me to purchase, move, then reconstruct a shop building (taking God knows how many hours), I woulda kept my mouth shut (or found something else to do in town) while she hit the resale shops for a couple of hours.

Don't get me wrong, I realize that waiting around was probably excruciating. But just think shop thoughts.

The shop is/was somewhat of a reward for purchasing and spending most of the last several years working on our house. I was happy with our old one. But I also realize that she is a keeper in more ways than one and I definitely married up.

The waiting was excruciating. I thought shop thoughts and other thoughts many times over. We had one car and I was the only one to think to bring a cell phone. Normally I stay home but needed some things this time. By the time I figured out it was going to take that long, it was too late. It was much less about me and much more about entertaining my fussy, hungry kids entertained while she shopped. Plus apparently it was my fault she can't look at her watch. Plus there were other reasons to go to wally world than just for what I wanted. If they weren't already planning to go there I would not have gone with them at all.

[shoottx]

Not to hit too hard on this, but you need to buy her some flowers, run her a nice bubble bath, pour some champagne, and back out of the room nice and slow...

I HATE it when I say something stupid to LOML...

Just repeat the above very slowly and then back out of the room

No amount of justification will change the situation.

Plus you could have politely said "Honey the kids are getting fussy, you shop a while, I'll get them some lunch, stop at Wally world and be back in about 137 minutes"

[jhart]

Was thinking about you being up in Brainard yesterday with all of the rain and storms. Looks like there was quite a bit (5-6") of rain, plus the temps have been cool all week. Still a great place to go, but weather could have been nicer.

[pierhogunn]

sorry man, I got in trouble yesterday for making 2 assumptions that I will not get into here... I got off easy, I only had to spend 30 minutes in the dog house, right before bed, instead of the majority of the day.

I guess that anger-caserole wasn't quite ready until 11:30pm...

[Shep]

David,

been there done that. I've been married for 3 years now and I've learned that whatever you do (or don't do) you're still wrong. I get in trouble all the time if I do something my way instead of her way, or if I should have known what she was thinking, and have acted in a way that would have prevented the outcome from happening. Don't get me started about laundry and what is the "proper" way to fold clothes.

Of course I don't act the way she does when she does something to agrivate me.

[crokett]

Today I stayed home. Everybody else is at the craft fair.

Shep, I've been married for 6 years and my wife is finally just now accepting that I am not her and won't do most things her way, but they still get done. So I don't get in trouble for that any more.

[pierhogunn]

[QUOTE=crokett;419848 my wife is finally just now accepting that I am not her and won't do most things her way, [/QUOTE]


wow, most married females never reach this point, at about year 4 I decided that I would rather be Married than be right, which as a virgo, thats awful d@mn hard to get squared with.

On the other hand, having a gal in her mid 30's does have benefits all it's own, and I must say, these benefits have been worth the wait, now if I could just keep up with her...

Someone on this forum show extreme wisdom by saying something like this

There are only 4 Reasons that a wife is ever upset with her husband

1. Something He Said
2. Something He didn't say
3. Something he did
4. Something he didn't do

I finally got mine to understand this morning, the reason that I can't just tell her how to fix something on her computer, is that she has yet decided to learn even the most basic things about computing and her operating system, and that if she was willing I would be happy to provide her with some learning materials so that I could at some point simply tell her how to fix the problems, instead of asking her to let me have the console and fix it.

She gets very upset when I say this, and claims that I am just holding out on her, but when I realized that the problem is that I can't explain the solution to her, I started to understand what I needed to do, which is get her to learn about that box of black magic she spends 8 hours a day on

[crokett]

I finally got mine to understand this morning, the reason that I can't just tell her how to fix something on her computer, is that she has yet decided to learn even the most basic things about computing and her operating system, and that if she was willing I would be happy to provide her with some learning materials so that I could at some point simply tell her how to fix the problems, instead of asking her to let me have the console and fix it.

Mine doesn't care about how it works, she just wants it to work. I've tried pointing out that if she knew more she could fix it herself but she just wants it to work.

[Kristofor]

Today I stayed home. Everybody else is at the craft fair.

Ah, now there's a real vacation!

[pierhogunn]

Mine doesn't care about how it works, she just wants it to work. I've tried pointing out that if she knew more she could fix it herself but she just wants it to work.

Ah-ha, I knew that mine wasn't as right brained as she claimed... I am ordering a PC's for dummies book for her, and she has agreed to read it...

yay, I am one step closer to getting a partner in crime for building my uber-video home streaming server... muahahaha

[glenns5900]

A friend of mine told me several years ago that to keep on her good side you only need to memorize and repeat these five words to her......
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Yes Dear. You're right Dear.
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[JR]

"I coulda stood in bed."

- Yogi Bera