Woman sets trap, man walks in - Tell us your version

[Phil.]

Pit Pony said:

Stuff

Sorted.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-search?search-tar...

Try driving one, they are much better than you might expect.

[George Smiley]

Fer said:

I thought the solution was to ask her to "guess where I'm taking you to dinner?", and take her to her first choice.

This is so simple it is genius. Of course there’s a chance of failure if she replies with “to our favourite place” or “I’m looking forward to your surprise “.

[eltax91]

George Smiley said:

or “I’m looking forward to your surprise “.

Then it’s straight to Nando’s.

[Frank7]

Pit Pony said:

Car hunting with woman helping to make descisions.
You dont end up with an MV6 3.2 petrol omega

Anyway, wife has a Juke. She needs an auto,
It must be a straight swap, or lower priced. Juke value £5.5 k ish

It needs to have 5 doors, but slightly smaller thsn the juke.
It needs to be cool. And not french.
So not a vauxhall. Or a renault.
Sounds easy right.
Mileage is an issue. Not sure why. She only does 5k a year but anything over 60k is frowned upon.
Has to be petrol.
We had arranged to go and see an old A class A200 turbo and a A200 non turbo CVT
Both woukd result in 2.5 k our way. Which i figure would pay for a new gearbox.
It took 2 weeks to hone 100,000 cars for sale down to 6 in the whole of the UK.

30 minutes in the company of her sister and her niece last night, and there's a further requirement. None of these people have driven an automatic ever.
I need to find her an automatic with an electronic hand brake. Becuase i need to respect her irrational belief that just putting it in park is not safe.
She has an issue with pain in arm and shoulder so using a handbrake results in pain hence needing an auto.

Try that as a search.
In our price range. Top spec astra from 2011 with all options ticked
And a renault scenic. Same age.

Theres 3 cars with 50 miles we can view. It took me 4 hours to find them.

Although being unable to chip in with advice, as what I know about cars can be put written on the back of a second class stamp, two things here mildly intrigued me.
1) and not French, (note capital F).
Does she have an empirical reason for this?
Or is it like my wife’s niece’s boyfriend’s reaction, when he learned that I had French blood.
“Really? I’m not sure about him then, my dad and grandad reckon that they’re all horrible, I don’t know why, so I don’t like them either.”
2) Her irrational worry about engaging Park, how about parking on the level, put it in Park, and get a bunch of guys to try pushing it one way and then the other, maybe she’ll be convinced then.

[Sticks.]

Frank7 said:

2) Her irrational worry about engaging Park, how about parking on the level, put it in Park, and get a bunch of guys to try pushing it one way and then the other, maybe she’ll be convinced then.

Ah, trying to tackle the irrational with science and reasoning. Not much point, as any married man will tell you

[DickyC]

Sticks. said:

Ah, trying to tackle the irrational with science and reasoning. Not much point, as any married man will tell you

Publisher's receptionist: "How do you write women so well?"
Melvin Udall: "I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.” 

/As Good As It Gets

[Mr E]

shed driver said:

Can you imagine if women were part of the Apollo programme?
.

They were. Rather critically.
Margret Hamilton wrote an awful lot of the flight software.

[Gargamel]

Mr E said:

shed driver said:

Can you imagine if women were part of the Apollo programme?
.

They were. Rather critically.
Margret Hamilton wrote an awful lot of the flight software.

Indeed. Watch Hidden Figures

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4846340/

Damm good film.

[eskidavies]

I’ve been done today wife wants to go to Cardiff,she’s working I’m the morning says she’ll drive I can have drink ,happy days ,but I’ve been dragged round super drug,boots and primark,the first two I can deal with but Primark ,fk me I hate the place with a passion,then she start piping up about the one I’m brum the biggest in uk ,fk me no chance and I put a deposit on a holiday this morn what more am o to do ,anyway I’m currently on my way with a pint of perroni and an old j tiki fire rum ,

Edited by eskidavies on Saturday 25th May 17:46

[GeneralSinn]

eskidavies said:

I’ve been done today wife wants to go to Cardiff,she’s working I’m the morning says she’ll drive I can have drink ,happy days ,but I’ve been dragged round super drug,boots and primark,the first two I can deal with but Primark ,fk me I hate the place with a passion,then she start piping up about the one I’m brum the biggest in uk ,fk me no chance and I put a deposit on a holiday this morn what more am o to do ,anyway I’m currently on my way with a pint of perroni and an old j tiki fire rum ,

Edited by eskidavies on Saturday 25th May 17:46

Any woman that shops in primark is solid grounds for relationship termination and/or divorce - yeah it’s snobbish and materialistic but I don’t care, it speak volumes about people who are prepared to put with a horrific store / customer experience and cheap shoddy goods.

[eskidavies]

GeneralSinn said:

eskidavies said:

I’ve been done today wife wants to go to Cardiff,she’s working I’m the morning says she’ll drive I can have drink ,happy days ,but I’ve been dragged round super drug,boots and primark,the first two I can deal with but Primark ,fk me I hate the place with a passion,then she start piping up about the one I’m brum the biggest in uk ,fk me no chance and I put a deposit on a holiday this morn what more am o to do ,anyway I’m currently on my way with a pint of perroni and an old j tiki fire rum ,

Edited by eskidavies on Saturday 25th May 17:46

Any woman that shops in primark is solid grounds for relationship termination and/or divorce - yeah it’s snobbish and materialistic but I don’t care, it speak volumes about people who are prepared to put with a horrific store / customer experience and cheap shoddy goods.

Is shopping in primark grounds for divorce

[Mr Dendrite]

eskidavies said:

Is shopping in primark grounds for divorce

I don’t know but sound like you’ve working on a cocktail that might be...

[Gargamel]

Mr Dendrite said:

eskidavies said:

Is shopping in primark grounds for divorce

I don’t know but sound like you’ve working on a cocktail that might be...

Whoa Whoa Whoaaa whoa whooo ooo O

[paua]

Gargamel said:

Mr Dendrite said:

eskidavies said:

Is shopping in primark grounds for divorce

I don’t know but sound like you’ve working on a cocktail that might be...

Whoa Whoa Whoaaa whoa whooo ooo O

You have, at least, managed to finish with a big O.

[George Smiley]

GeneralSinn said:

Any woman that shops in primark is solid grounds for relationship termination and/or divorce - yeah it’s snobbish and materialistic but I don’t care, it speak volumes about people who are prepared to put with a horrific store / customer experience and cheap shoddy goods.

But council girls like it dirty

[csd19]

George Smiley said:

GeneralSinn said:

Any woman that shops in primark is solid grounds for relationship termination and/or divorce - yeah it’s snobbish and materialistic but I don’t care, it speak volumes about people who are prepared to put with a horrific store / customer experience and cheap shoddy goods.

But council girls like it dirty

^ this

[Frank7]

George Smiley said:

But council girls like it dirty

Not just council girls George.
In my admittedly not excessive rampaging through womanhood in my younger years, when I was “in the life”, I got down and dirty with more than a few Oxbridge graduates, and 30 something women from the professional classes, including a haematologist, and a couple of high flying lawyers.
My pièce de resistance was a 38-42 y.o. lieutenant or captain in the Salvation Army that I met in unusual circumstances, she made the proverbial ‘swinging from the chandelier’ seem like amateur foreplay.
Excuse me while I repair to the kitchen, and quietly weep for my lost youth.

[P5BNij]

If you ever sit down to write your memoires Frank, they should definitely be made into a film. Who would you like to play you...?

[George Smiley]

P5BNij said:

If you ever sit down to write your memoires Frank, they should definitely be made into a film. Who would you like to play you...?

Jean lefaketaxee

[Frank7]

P5BNij said:

If you ever sit down to write your memoires Frank, they should definitely be made into a film. Who would you like to play you...?

That’s extremely kind of you, but my life has been mundane for the most part, interspersed with intervals of hedonistic adventure.
It’s too late now, but Laurence Harvey conveyed the sneering imperious persona that my ex wife said was my trademark, (how could one of the smartest women I ever knew interpret something so wrongly.)
If he could have affected a Cockney accent, with the rough edges filed down, and been trained to drive a Black Cab as good as I did, he’d have been a shoo-in for the part