Anyone else's wife faff about un-necessarily?
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juan king said:
My Mrs is really good with punctuality and no faffing either so no complaints there, my biggest bug bear with her is she gets 'hangry'. She doesn't have set times to eat when were out and about but when she decides shes hungry I have half an hour to find suitable food, and its somehow my fault for not planning ahead properly. It bothers me because if busy I can go all day without eating, but to her its life or death. Other than that she's pretty easy going tbh.
Same here. And when they get to the restaurant - can they order anything from the menu ?
It's always, "What're you having"? (Well we're not really here for my sake so I'll have a beer).
"Can we share this "?
"I want this but not with that or that, and I want extra this"!.
Im-fkin-possible to just order something from a menu.
ETA - I've written this on some thread before. One time in a restaurant she couldn't decide what she wanted. She liked the look of the vegetarian pasta, so ordered that, but asked them if they could put some meat in it. (They did).
Edited by AndySheff on Monday 13th March 20:18
CanAm said:
MarshPhantom said:
Women. Can't live with them. Pass the beer nuts.
Norm!! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weBbZ11d5LM
(and yes to all of the above in this household too)
Prime example tonight, we are watching a recording of tonight's Broadchurch, 10 minutes to the end "oh I need a wee", off she goes, not to the toilet though but to the kitchen and spends 10 minutes making a smoothie, whilst looking at FB.
Goes outside to put a few things in the recycle bin, meanwhile the new puppy creeps out, she shouts "oh the dog is out, come and get the dog", I tell her that she let her out so she can get her in (I'm sitting waiting and have been all the time).
Gets the dog in, off upstairs for a wee, pops in to chat to our daughter who is in her room, hear laughter etc, finally comes down and settles; 20 minutes later!
Goes outside to put a few things in the recycle bin, meanwhile the new puppy creeps out, she shouts "oh the dog is out, come and get the dog", I tell her that she let her out so she can get her in (I'm sitting waiting and have been all the time).
Gets the dog in, off upstairs for a wee, pops in to chat to our daughter who is in her room, hear laughter etc, finally comes down and settles; 20 minutes later!
funkyrobot said:
I don't know what's worse. The faff or the fact you married your grandma. 
One thing I started to do was tell my wife to call me in from the workshop when she was READY TO LEAVE the house... and I would then go in, shower, shave, change........
.......and STILL be sitting in the car, engine running, waiting for some last minute task, chore or change she had to do...
Usual last night. I'm in the front room watching TV and she starts asking me questions from the kitchen to which i reply. So i get the usual "Sorry i can't hear you" which is true as she is very hard of hearing and cannot hear from one ear.
So guess who has to pause the TV to go and see what she says?
This happens about every 20 minutes!
So guess who has to pause the TV to go and see what she says?
This happens about every 20 minutes!
Bullett said:
Me "what time do do we need to be at the event?"
Her "8pm"
Me "ok, we need to leave at 7.30 then"
Next day, 7pm
Her "you ready to go"
Me "Nope, you've been in the bathroom and we are not leaving until 7.30"
Her "We have to go now we are picking up Doris" (who lives 10 minutes the other way)
Me "ffs"
Which reminds me of another thing, collecting up a bloke from somewhere. They are ready waiting, in the car and away 20s tops.
Women, stop all get out have a chat a cup of tea probably, then a wee and are still not ready. Why are you having a chat you're going to be in a car together for an hour?
Her "8pm"
Me "ok, we need to leave at 7.30 then"
Next day, 7pm
Her "you ready to go"
Me "Nope, you've been in the bathroom and we are not leaving until 7.30"
Her "We have to go now we are picking up Doris" (who lives 10 minutes the other way)
Me "ffs"
Which reminds me of another thing, collecting up a bloke from somewhere. They are ready waiting, in the car and away 20s tops.
Women, stop all get out have a chat a cup of tea probably, then a wee and are still not ready. Why are you having a chat you're going to be in a car together for an hour?
Made me laugh in the train this morning, i can just picture the scene.
Morningside said:
Usual last night. I'm in the front room watching TV and she starts asking me questions from the kitchen to which i reply. So i get the usual "Sorry i can't hear you" which is true as she is very hard of hearing and cannot hear from one ear.
So guess who has to pause the TV to go and see what she says?
This happens about every 20 minutes!
Saying something just below the volume at which you can hear it is female code for "here boy!". So guess who has to pause the TV to go and see what she says?
This happens about every 20 minutes!
The other good one. We can be in the bedroom - TV is on quite loud and I get in the shower in the next room (so i'm in what is essentially a closed box with water running). I can just about hear her talking away in the bedroom about something at normal speaking volume - but cannot make out what is being said at all - it's just background noise.
Later in the evening - she'll mention something, which is countered by a completely blank look by myself. Then she'll get in a huff because apparently 'she told me about this earlier'
Edited by Moonhawk on Tuesday 14th March 08:51
Monkeylegend said:
My other half doesn't faff but she has this habit of asking me if I want to watch anything on TV. I mean how stupid is that. I am arguing on PH.
She will then put one of her programmes on while I have my head in the laptop, only to continually talk to me about the programme she is watching that I don't give a toss about.
She's doing it now, watching a recording of Bargain Hunt
She records Bargain Hunt?She will then put one of her programmes on while I have my head in the laptop, only to continually talk to me about the programme she is watching that I don't give a toss about.
She's doing it now, watching a recording of Bargain Hunt
Leave her.
Europa1 said:
Monkeylegend said:
My other half doesn't faff but she has this habit of asking me if I want to watch anything on TV. I mean how stupid is that. I am arguing on PH.
She will then put one of her programmes on while I have my head in the laptop, only to continually talk to me about the programme she is watching that I don't give a toss about.
She's doing it now, watching a recording of Bargain Hunt
She records Bargain Hunt?She will then put one of her programmes on while I have my head in the laptop, only to continually talk to me about the programme she is watching that I don't give a toss about.
She's doing it now, watching a recording of Bargain Hunt
Leave her.
On reflection that is Bargain Hunt
I was going to sat at least it keeps her quiet, then I read back my previous posts
Edited by Monkeylegend on Tuesday 14th March 09:06
I'm mostly out the door first and walking to the car. We both have a set of keys for the house yet she always without fail calls me back to lock the front door because she can't be bothered to get her keys out her bag.
We're going to a wedding in 2 weeks time. She spent Sunday trying on all her dresses and shoes practicing how she wants her hair in preparation for this wedding.
We're going to a wedding in 2 weeks time. She spent Sunday trying on all her dresses and shoes practicing how she wants her hair in preparation for this wedding.
Moonhawk said:
Saying something just below the volume at which you can hear it is female code for "here boy!".
The other good one. We can be in the bedroom - TV is on quite loud and I get in the shower in the next room (so i'm in what is essentially a closed box with water running). I can just about hear her talking away in the bedroom about something at normal speaking volume - but cannot make out what is being said at all - it's just background noise.
Later in the evening - she'll mention something, which is countered by a completely blank look by myself. Then she'll get in a huff because apparently 'she told me about this earlier'
This. Me "What do you mean I was supposed to pick the kids up?" Her "I told you last night" Yes, when I was in the kitchen cooking with the extractor fan and radio on and you were in the front room!?!?The other good one. We can be in the bedroom - TV is on quite loud and I get in the shower in the next room (so i'm in what is essentially a closed box with water running). I can just about hear her talking away in the bedroom about something at normal speaking volume - but cannot make out what is being said at all - it's just background noise.
Later in the evening - she'll mention something, which is countered by a completely blank look by myself. Then she'll get in a huff because apparently 'she told me about this earlier'
Edited by Moonhawk on Tuesday 14th March 08:51
Or the mutter from another room. "Pardon?" "Mumble mumble mumble" Turn the tv down. "What?" "Nothing, talking to myself". Arghhhh!
Or when I'm jet washing the car "*Completely inaudible speech*" Stops jet washing "What?" "*Something completely irrelevant and inane*". Over and over. I don't stop anymore I just ignore the muttering.
del mar said:
Mrs Mar has been on the phone - I am at work.
"I have a puncture."
She has money
She has a phone
She has recovery service
Her plan is to continue driving it for two miles to the Tyre garage, during which time she will have wrecked the tyre, and possibly damaged the wheel - will I pay for a new one ??
At least she realised she had a puncture, the lady my wife lift shares with drove the whole 5 miles to work with a "funny noise" which was getting louder, but didn't stop as the car still seemed to drive ok. when they got to work they discovered the noise was the shredded tyre carcass hitting the arch liner "I have a puncture."
She has money
She has a phone
She has recovery service
Her plan is to continue driving it for two miles to the Tyre garage, during which time she will have wrecked the tyre, and possibly damaged the wheel - will I pay for a new one ??
My wife has a habit of remembering something we need to take with us after we've got in the car and I've started the engine, and the only door keys we have between us are the ones on my car keys. She knows that starting my car on a cold day then turning it off immediately afterwards is likely to result in it not starting again (common thing with BMW M54 engines). So we either have to leave it at home or wait until the car warms up a bit so I can turn it off and open the door. Always my fault though.
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