Anyone else's wife faff about un-necessarily?
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Tomorrow we're going to the local dealership to drop her car off for a non-fault repair and get a courtesy car whilst hers is in the body shop.
She's just told me today that they've offered to deliver the car to our house - i say great, so we don't need to drop yours off then? She says we still need to drop it off at the dealers as planned but now she won't have to drive back from the dealers in the courtesy car "as it's a new car and she won't have driven it before"
Hmmm, so it will just sit on the drive then until yours comes back in a few weeks after repair
Just realised the above story is more general wifery rather than faffing - if it makes any difference, she's a massive faffer and i regularly have to shuffle her along
She's just told me today that they've offered to deliver the car to our house - i say great, so we don't need to drop yours off then? She says we still need to drop it off at the dealers as planned but now she won't have to drive back from the dealers in the courtesy car "as it's a new car and she won't have driven it before"
Hmmm, so it will just sit on the drive then until yours comes back in a few weeks after repair
Just realised the above story is more general wifery rather than faffing - if it makes any difference, she's a massive faffer and i regularly have to shuffle her along
martt said:
Tomorrow we're going to the local dealership to drop her car off for a non-fault repair and get a courtesy car whilst hers is in the body shop.
She's just told me today that they've offered to deliver the car to our house - i say great, so we don't need to drop yours off then? She says we still need to drop it off at the dealers as planned but now she won't have to drive back from the dealers in the courtesy car "as it's a new car and she won't have driven it before"
Hmmm, so it will just sit on the drive then until yours comes back in a few weeks after repair
Just realised the above story is more general wifery rather than faffing - if it makes any difference, she's a massive faffer and i regularly have to shuffle her along
I can relate to that, Mrs PR would far rather try an unfamiliar car out on familiar roads the 1st time. She's just told me today that they've offered to deliver the car to our house - i say great, so we don't need to drop yours off then? She says we still need to drop it off at the dealers as planned but now she won't have to drive back from the dealers in the courtesy car "as it's a new car and she won't have driven it before"
Hmmm, so it will just sit on the drive then until yours comes back in a few weeks after repair
Just realised the above story is more general wifery rather than faffing - if it makes any difference, she's a massive faffer and i regularly have to shuffle her along
bob-lad said:
I'm struggling to believe you guys have had two weeks faff-free.
Is the internet broken again?
We're moving house soon and come up with a plan. On moving day she'll take the dog over to her mums, and stay there while I sort removal men, final cleaning etc. Meet her @ the new house later. Is the internet broken again?
I wonder if it'll work.
Not a faff as such but this drives me to distraction....SWMBO is hugely organised, runs her own business and is one of those classic folk "if you want something done, give it to a busy person", volunteering for organising stuff her much less active mates can't seem to manage.
However, we share a google calendar for home stuff and I cannot for the life of me get her out of the habit of putting all entries in at 9am with the actual time in the subject line. Hence I look at free evenings and bingo, I'm free only to find out a couple of days before said event she'd already committed me to something. FFS, why can't she put the entry in at the correct time with a -x hours alert if she wants to know in the morning what she's doing that evening ???
However, we share a google calendar for home stuff and I cannot for the life of me get her out of the habit of putting all entries in at 9am with the actual time in the subject line. Hence I look at free evenings and bingo, I'm free only to find out a couple of days before said event she'd already committed me to something. FFS, why can't she put the entry in at the correct time with a -x hours alert if she wants to know in the morning what she's doing that evening ???
robinessex said:
After numerous incidents in the kitchen, SWMBO putting food onto cook, and then buggering off somewhere else to Facebook her friends, fitted up smoke alarm. Now gone off 8 times in 1 week. It's my fault for putting it in a sensitive location!
My wife is the same.Asked me on Sunday if I wanted a bacon butty - yes says I. 5 minutes later - I come in the living room to find her on her laptop and I can hear a weird bubbling sound coming from the kitchen. I go into the kitchen and find that she turned the grill on full but left the grill pan, which is still full of fat from yesterday's bacon butty, under it with the grill door closed - kitchen now full of smoke!
She does a similar thing with toast. Rather than set the toaster to cook toast to 100% - she instead sets it to cook to 75%. When the toast pops out under-cooked, so she puts it back in, then forgets that it is on the second round of cooking. Invariably the toast comes out black and the kitchen is full of smoke.
Mine goes out to work/the shops. I look five mins later in the drive to see her still in her car sorting her phone, seat, sat nav, handbag, driving shoes, make-up (that she only finished 2 mins earlier, her seat again, the radio, the stuff she should have put in the boot to begin with....
And, she faffs for ages and when we finally go out she says 'Oh, I forgot my phone/lippy/etc.' FFS you were in there for hours getting ready.
And, she faffs for ages and when we finally go out she says 'Oh, I forgot my phone/lippy/etc.' FFS you were in there for hours getting ready.
Robertj21a said:
nonsequitur said:
bob-lad said:
I'm struggling to believe you guys have had two weeks faff-free.
Is the internet broken again?
We are far too busy man-faffing to post on here.Is the internet broken again?
nonsequitur said:
Robertj21a said:
nonsequitur said:
We are far too busy man-faffing to post on here.
Do men faff about - more than women ??I'm not married, but I can nominate my dad as being one of the worst for this. If for example he needs to go out at 10am the routine will be as follows
8am - wake up
8:30-10:30am - cup of tea, browse the internet, have a shower, read the paper, another cup of tea, check his emails
10:30-10:45 - run around frantically telling everyone else to get ready as they're going to be late, not being able to find his keys or something else important whilst mum sits there tapping her fingers since she was ready to leave an hour ago
10:45 - check every door and window is locked three times, remember that he needs to check his email again or set the tv up to record something
11:00ish - leave and get flustered because they turn up late
On the plus side I'm well used to it now, so if they ever coming to visit I just add at least an hour onto their ETA
8am - wake up
8:30-10:30am - cup of tea, browse the internet, have a shower, read the paper, another cup of tea, check his emails
10:30-10:45 - run around frantically telling everyone else to get ready as they're going to be late, not being able to find his keys or something else important whilst mum sits there tapping her fingers since she was ready to leave an hour ago
10:45 - check every door and window is locked three times, remember that he needs to check his email again or set the tv up to record something
11:00ish - leave and get flustered because they turn up late
On the plus side I'm well used to it now, so if they ever coming to visit I just add at least an hour onto their ETA
Getting out the car.
I always nose in first so its one motion. Turn, park, handbrake, seatbelt. Grab phone and wallet, go.
Standing a few feet from car....
She locks her phone..... undoes seatbelt.... checks make up in mirror... grabs jacket, handbag... looks around for the door to Narnia I don't know.... checks she has required items. Door opens!!! Turns, stands, closes door, puts on jacket / top. Checks appearance in car window. looks up and smiles.
"Oh there you are."
Child is the same only its with phone / tablet.
I always nose in first so its one motion. Turn, park, handbrake, seatbelt. Grab phone and wallet, go.
Standing a few feet from car....
She locks her phone..... undoes seatbelt.... checks make up in mirror... grabs jacket, handbag... looks around for the door to Narnia I don't know.... checks she has required items. Door opens!!! Turns, stands, closes door, puts on jacket / top. Checks appearance in car window. looks up and smiles.
"Oh there you are."
Child is the same only its with phone / tablet.
Cliftonite said:
And the kettle is always filled, regardless of how little boiled water is actually required?
My parents are massive tight wads, tighter than me and tighter than a bulls arse in fly season. The have solar PV panels of the roof which make a nice chunk of cash. Their over is electric, quite old and has a little LDC clock that must use about a billionth of an amp. So they turn it off at the wall to save this miniscule amount of electricity. Trouble is, when the boil the kettle, it's ALWAYS full, so any saving they make in the next hundred years turning the oven off at the wall gets wiped out every time the boil the kettle.
Willy Nilly said:
Cliftonite said:
And the kettle is always filled, regardless of how little boiled water is actually required?
My parents are massive tight wads, tighter than me and tighter than a bulls arse in fly season. The have solar PV panels of the roof which make a nice chunk of cash. Their over is electric, quite old and has a little LDC clock that must use about a billionth of an amp. So they turn it off at the wall to save this miniscule amount of electricity. Trouble is, when the boil the kettle, it's ALWAYS full, so any saving they make in the next hundred years turning the oven off at the wall gets wiped out every time the boil the kettle.
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