Classic from the Mrs!

Classic from the Mrs!

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Nom de ploom

4,890 posts

173 months

Friday 22nd August 2014
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WinstonWolf said:
So, I've been out in the garden working for a couple of hours and my phone is in the utility room on the side. I invite her out to see the fruits of my labour and we hear my phone beeping away indoors for an incoming text.

"Was that your phone"?

"Yes".

"Who is it texting"?

confused
reminds me of the david baddiel skit

shared house scenario - "jim was talking to his girlfriend in america for two hours last night"

"oh..was he on the 'phone????"

"no, he was shouting".


bodhi

10,331 posts

228 months

Friday 22nd August 2014
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Carthage said:
I'm not indignant - I just feel sorry for anyone stuck in a relationship who feels so miserable/powerless that they have to look for sympathy from random Internet people. frown

Please - talk to her about it (nicely), or leave.
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?

Tyre Tread

10,525 posts

215 months

Friday 22nd August 2014
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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

4,261 posts

143 months

Friday 22nd August 2014
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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

23,731 posts

192 months

Friday 22nd August 2014
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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

7,095 posts

167 months

Friday 22nd August 2014
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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!
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RYH64E

7,960 posts

243 months

Saturday 23rd August 2014
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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

4,261 posts

143 months

Saturday 23rd August 2014
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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

7,960 posts

243 months

Saturday 23rd August 2014
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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

4,261 posts

143 months

Saturday 23rd August 2014
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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

31,608 posts

252 months

Saturday 23rd August 2014
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Awooga. Awooga.

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simoid

19,772 posts

157 months

Saturday 23rd August 2014
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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

4,261 posts

143 months

Saturday 23rd August 2014
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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

3,367 posts

192 months

Sunday 24th August 2014
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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 biggrin), 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

4,261 posts

143 months

Sunday 24th August 2014
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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 biggrin), 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

3,334 posts

165 months

Sunday 24th August 2014
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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 wink

Rawwr

22,722 posts

233 months

Sunday 24th August 2014
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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

1,333 posts

176 months

Sunday 24th August 2014
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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 rolleyes

I give up hehe

John D.

17,701 posts

208 months

Sunday 24th August 2014
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SpeckledJim said:
Awooga. Awooga.

Thread quickly dying.
hehe



Hasbeen

2,073 posts

220 months

Monday 25th August 2014
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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 rolleyes

I give up hehe
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.



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