Classic from the Mrs!

[Tyre Tread]

bodhi said:

Woah, kind of the nuclear option don;t you think? I mean my OH always winds me up by asking for non-specific stuff (Pass me the thingy), and then goes off on one when I don't understand what a "thingy" is.

So would you say we need counseling, or shall I just move out now?

Move out now... probably for the best... leave you money and anything of value behind... save all the nastiness. [/mumsnet]

[Carthage]

bodhi said:

Woah, kind of the nuclear option don;t you think? I mean my OH always winds me up by asking for non-specific stuff (Pass me the thingy), and then goes off on one when I don't understand what a "thingy" is.

So would you say we need counseling, or shall I just move out now?

Yes.

[hidetheelephants]

Carthage said:

bodhi said:

Woah, kind of the nuclear option don;t you think? I mean my OH always winds me up by asking for non-specific stuff (Pass me the thingy), and then goes off on one when I don't understand what a "thingy" is.

So would you say we need counseling, or shall I just move out now?

Yes.

Touché!

[MissChief]

hidetheelephants said:

Carthage said:

bodhi said:

Woah, kind of the nuclear option don;t you think? I mean my OH always winds me up by asking for non-specific stuff (Pass me the thingy), and then goes off on one when I don't understand what a "thingy" is.

So would you say we need counseling, or shall I just move out now?

Yes.

Touché!

[RYH64E]

Carthage said:

Firstly - try TALKING to your wives.

My wife recently observed that when the children leave home we'll have to talk to each other, other than asking what's for dinner or telling her she's doing it wrong I haven't had to actually talk to her for years...

[Carthage]

RYH64E said:

My wife recently observed that when the children leave home we'll have to talk to each other, other than asking what's for dinner or telling her she's doing it wrong I haven't had to actually talk to her for years...

I prefer it when my men are silent; that way I don't have to expend energy correcting them.

[RYH64E]

Carthage said:

RYH64E said:

My wife recently observed that when the children leave home we'll have to talk to each other, other than asking what's for dinner or telling her she's doing it wrong I haven't had to actually talk to her for years...

I prefer it when my men are silent;

Exactly, after all these years she should know what I want without having to ask or be told.

[Carthage]

RYH64E said:

Exactly, after all these years she should know what I want without having to ask or be told.

You expect mere words to bridge the gulf between knowing and caring?

[SpeckledJim]

Awooga. Awooga.

Thread quickly dying.

[simoid]

Carthage said:

Firstly - try TALKING to your wives.

fk that.

Either:

A) we fall out, or;
B) she says something daft, and it say I'm putting it on PH, then A).

[Carthage]

simoid said:

fk that.

Either:

A) we fall out, or;
B) she says something daft, and it say I'm putting it on PH, then A).

I can see why you struggle with speech.

[vinnie83]

Ok so.... Today I arranged for a surprise proposal. It was at an escape a room thing - this was An Egyptian tomb and you have to solve a puzzle to open a door until you've opened all of the doors to escape.

So I planned that the final room would contain a big 'will you marry me' sign and flowers with the ring - all on camera.

So there were 6 of us in total, one of whom is the fiancées (she said yes ), and as the final door swings open, her sis rushes into the room, sees the set up, says oooh will you marry me and proceeded to get on her knee and put on the ring!!

Only when their brother pointed out it was for the OH did she realise - this wasn't part of the puzzle! The poor girl thought the I final puzzle involved putting the ring on!

Needless to say it will be a great vid to play at the wedding!

[Carthage]

vinnie83 said:

Ok so.... Today I arranged for a surprise proposal. It was at an escape a room thing - this was An Egyptian tomb and you have to solve a puzzle to open a door until you've opened all of the doors to escape.

So I planned that the final room would contain a big 'will you marry me' sign and flowers with the ring - all on camera.

So there were 6 of us in total, one of whom is the fiancées (she said yes ), and as the final door swings open, her sis rushes into the room, sees the set up, says oooh will you marry me and proceeded to get on her knee and put on the ring!!

Only when their brother pointed out it was for the OH did she realise - this wasn't part of the puzzle! The poor girl thought the I final puzzle involved putting the ring on!

Needless to say it will be a great vid to play at the wedding!

Congratulations on your engagement! Very inventive way of proposing (just be glad you're marrying the right sister!)

[SistersofPercy]

BrabusMog said:

So a thread that's been ticking along nicely has some involvement from a women and it descends in to chaos. Who'd have thunk it?

Oi! I've been here for ages and have managed to avoid pearl clutching

[Rawwr]

vinnie83 said:

Ok so.... Today I arranged for a surprise proposal. It was at an escape a room thing - this was An Egyptian tomb and you have to solve a puzzle to open a door until you've opened all of the doors to escape.

Was Richard O'Brien lurking in the background playing a flute?

[Baldy881]

Was out night fishing Friday and returning home Saturday the missus told me she'd had a terrible night at home with the little un waking her up a few times in the night, and to top it off the smoke alarm had started beeping (low battery warning) just as she was finally settled, so she'd had to get up and "take the battery out".

Middle of the night Saturday, she wakes me up saying there's a beeping coming from the smoke alarm. In a daze I say are you sure? She says yep same noise as previous night.

st!! I'm scared now and leave bed to find smoke alarm with expectations of some weird type poltergeist occurrence about to happen. When I turn landing light on, I find the battery hanging from the (opened) smoke alarm by the battery connector. I remove it and beeping stops, then get back into bed saying I thought you'd taken the battery out to which she replied she had taken it out of the alarm!

She genuinely does not understand what has happened here

I give up

[John D.]

SpeckledJim said:

Awooga. Awooga.

Thread quickly dying.

[Hasbeen]

Baldy881 said:

Was out night fishing Friday and returning home Saturday the missus told me she'd had a terrible night at home with the little un waking her up a few times in the night, and to top it off the smoke alarm had started beeping (low battery warning) just as she was finally settled, so she'd had to get up and "take the battery out".

Middle of the night Saturday, she wakes me up saying there's a beeping coming from the smoke alarm. In a daze I say are you sure? She says yep same noise as previous night.

st!! I'm scared now and leave bed to find smoke alarm with expectations of some weird type poltergeist occurrence about to happen. When I turn landing light on, I find the battery hanging from the (opened) smoke alarm by the battery connector. I remove it and beeping stops, then get back into bed saying I thought you'd taken the battery out to which she replied she had taken it out of the alarm!

She genuinely does not understand what has happened here

I give up

These battery alarms going on & off are a bit annoying.

My mother, granted in her mid 90s, was living in a granny flat adjacent to my home. She liked as much independence as possible. She complained for a few days about noisy birds waking her up, or keeping her awake. As her bedroom window was only 10 meters from mine I wondered why I could not hear them.

Then after a week or so, the smoke alarm battery alarm sounded while I was down there. All was revealed when she said there's those damn birds again.

[Marvib]

Carthage said:

RYH64E said:

My wife recently observed that when the children leave home we'll have to talk to each other, other than asking what's for dinner or telling her she's doing it wrong I haven't had to actually talk to her for years...

I prefer it when my men are silent; that way I don't have to expend energy correcting them.

As I've seen you accuse posters of misogyny on 3 separate occasions I can't help but point out there is a subtle undertone of misandry here.

[SistersofPercy]

Hasbeen said:

These battery alarms going on & off are a bit annoying.

My mother, granted in her mid 90s, was living in a granny flat adjacent to my home. She liked as much independence as possible. She complained for a few days about noisy birds waking her up, or keeping her awake. As her bedroom window was only 10 meters from mine I wondered why I could not hear them.

Then after a week or so, the smoke alarm battery alarm sounded while I was down there. All was revealed when she said there's those damn birds again.

We had something similar where I could hear a beeping in our bedroom. Other half couldn't hear it at all and I couldn't place where it was coming from. Went on for a few nights until finally daughter came in to ask me something and said 'whats that beeping?' Could have kissed her, thought I was going mad.
Teenage ears are obviously better because she tracked it straight down to the cordless phone emitting the lowest little beep ever to alert that it had lost communication with it's base.
Conclusion, daughter has fabulous hearing, mine sightly better, husband is as deaf as a post