Classic from the Mrs! Vol 2

[Blown2CV]

Moonhawk said:

Blown2CV said:

Mrs 2CV recently gave birth to our amazing daughter, but the wonder of fatherhood aside, apparently women lose 20% of the brain cells during pregnancy. 'Baby brain' is a real thing. Mrs 2CV is a thread regular already though.... i now have several classics examples daily, but as i've been a bit busy i have not been writing them down. Will try and capture more. One from today was having to explain to her how the heating thermostat works, as she had forgotten. She has lived here for 6 years. She looked completely done in with the concepts of "current room temperature" versus "temperature you want it to be".

Did you have the "turning the thermostat to a temperature much higher than you want - won't make the house heat up any quicker" conversation too - or would that be a step too far

believe it or not, and this is me being mean about her, she's never got to that level of comfort with it! If she doesn't know what setting will make it switch on at all, she definitely won't have the concept of high/low power or whatever some Mrs might think they are enabling.

Let's not even go there with the timer.... i've tried to draw graphs... i think it actually made it worse.

[havoc]

Does she also turn the radiator down when she gets too hot, rather than going to the thermostat?

[Blown2CV]

havoc said:

Does she also turn the radiator down when she gets too hot, rather than going to the thermostat?

no she keeps the heating blasting, but opens the windows.

[PoleDriver]

Blown2CV said:

no she keeps the heating blasting, but opens the windows.

Don't even go there!

[CanAm]

PoleDriver said:

Blown2CV said:

no she keeps the heating blasting, but opens the windows.

Don't even go there!

She's not alone there either.

[HTP99]

CanAm said:

PoleDriver said:

Blown2CV said:

no she keeps the heating blasting, but opens the windows.

Don't even go there!

She's not alone there either.

Women and central heating, a mystery that will never be solved.

[98elise]

HTP99 said:

CanAm said:

PoleDriver said:

Blown2CV said:

no she keeps the heating blasting, but opens the windows.

Don't even go there!

She's not alone there either.

Women and central heating, a mystery that will never be solved.

It easy. We changed to a wireless system a few years ago. I left the old wired one in place and didn't tell my wife its no longer controls the heating

[Steamer]

98elise said:

HTP99 said:

CanAm said:

PoleDriver said:

Blown2CV said:

no she keeps the heating blasting, but opens the windows.

Don't even go there!

She's not alone there either.

Women and central heating, a mystery that will never be solved.

It easy. We changed to a wireless system a few years ago. I left the old wired one in place and didn't tell my wife its no longer controls the heating

well done that man!

[brrapp]

98elise said:

It easy. We changed to a wireless system a few years ago. I left the old wired one in place and didn't tell my wife its no longer controls the heating

POST OF THE WEEK

[GarryDK]

Steamer said:

98elise said:

HTP99 said:

CanAm said:

PoleDriver said:

Blown2CV said:

no she keeps the heating blasting, but opens the windows.

Don't even go there!

She's not alone there either.

Women and central heating, a mystery that will never be solved.

It easy. We changed to a wireless system a few years ago. I left the old wired one in place and didn't tell my wife its no longer controls the heating

well done that man!

Just reminds me of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pwwx1cF8NQ

[havoc]

Steamer said:

98elise said:

It easy. We changed to a wireless system a few years ago. I left the old wired one in place and didn't tell my wife its no longer controls the heating

well done that man!

Perfect!

[Baz Tench]

Another one from a female friend. We were round my dad's house, and being a bit of a local history buff, he was on about an area of Birmingham that was big on prostitution years ago, or 'vice' as he put it.

She piped up, genuinely a bit puzzled: "But why did people need so many vices?"

[Hasbeen]

Blown2CV said:

havoc said:

Does she also turn the radiator down when she gets too hot, rather than going to the thermostat?

no she keeps the heating blasting, but opens the windows.

My mother was living in my granny flat up to her 98Th birthday, independent apart from some help with cooking & cleaning. She did however start having a problem with the heating after about her 96Th birthday.

She said the reverse cycle heating by the air conditioning unit was too noisy, & wouldn't use it. Thus on cool mornings she would turn on the electric fan heater in her sitting room.

As the day, with heater, warmed she would then turn on the air conditioning. We would often find both going at morning tea time.

[Robbo 27]

She is great at parking, reverses into spaces at the side of the road first time every time.

Unless I am helping.

If the space is very tight I get out to help.

I used to say left hand down a bit, she turns right.

Now I say right hand down bit when I want her to turn left, no problem.

If I explain what left hand down on the steering wheel means it pi55es her off, not worth the aggro. I suspect she thinks that the hand on the wheel has to go down through the full circle of the wheel but I am not going to ask.

[wolfracesonic]

Try saying 'right hand up' in future, see how that goes down; or up

[HTP99]

The youngest is furthering her education at an agricultural college, as part of their course the college is providing each student with a chick so that they can learn about development etc. The college has told each student that they can keep the chick/chicken if they have suitable housing for it at home.

So I've had the youngest pleading with me "can we keep the chick at home, we can build suitable housing etc?"

She has said that there will be free eggs, knowing that I like an egg, the wife pipes up "but won't you need a male chicken aswell to produce eggs?"

[Shaoxter]

Robbo 27 said:

She is great at parking, reverses into spaces at the side of the road first time every time.

Unless I am helping.

If the space is very tight I get out to help.

I used to say left hand down a bit, she turns right.

Now I say right hand down bit when I want her to turn left, no problem.

If I explain what left hand down on the steering wheel means it pi55es her off, not worth the aggro. I suspect she thinks that the hand on the wheel has to go down through the full circle of the wheel but I am not going to ask.

To be honest I'd have no idea what you meant either.
Why not just say turn the wheels left/right?

[Evangelion]

"Left hand down a bit" ?

You are Sub-Lieutenant Phillips from The Navy Lark and I claim my five pounds.

[sidekickdmr]

Shaoxter said:

Robbo 27 said:

She is great at parking, reverses into spaces at the side of the road first time every time.

Unless I am helping.

If the space is very tight I get out to help.

I used to say left hand down a bit, she turns right.

Now I say right hand down bit when I want her to turn left, no problem.

If I explain what left hand down on the steering wheel means it pi55es her off, not worth the aggro. I suspect she thinks that the hand on the wheel has to go down through the full circle of the wheel but I am not going to ask.

To be honest I'd have no idea what you meant either.
Why not just say turn the wheels left/right?

Left hand down and right hand down are pretty much the simplist ways of explaining it.

Litrially move your left hand, down.

How do you turn the wheels left? Plus when reversing you wuld need to do the oppisite.

[havoc]

"left hand down" is how I understand it as well - easier than "turn right", as if you're reversing you may be looking over your shoulder.