Anyone else's wife faff about un-necessarily?
Discussion
donkmeister said:
gotoPzero said:
Watching a film last night... the usual faff.
It always takes us about 2 hours to watch the first 30 minutes.
How many marriages have been saved by the ability to pause films and live TV? 50% of the population don't realise just how useful that little button is to the sanity of their partner.It always takes us about 2 hours to watch the first 30 minutes.
Stan the Bat said:
tribbles said:
DocJock said:
Stan the Bat said:
Two Tv's is the answer.
Absolutely the correct answer,
57Ford said:
Stan the Bat said:
tribbles said:
DocJock said:
Stan the Bat said:
Two Tv's is the answer.
Absolutely the correct answer,televisions becomes t'v's
Lower case too?
57Ford said:
Stan the Bat said:
tribbles said:
DocJock said:
Stan the Bat said:
Two Tv's is the answer.
Absolutely the correct answer,Stan the Bat said:
donkmeister said:
gotoPzero said:
Watching a film last night... the usual faff.
It always takes us about 2 hours to watch the first 30 minutes.
How many marriages have been saved by the ability to pause films and live TV? 50% of the population don't realise just how useful that little button is to the sanity of their partner.It always takes us about 2 hours to watch the first 30 minutes.
CanAm said:
57Ford said:
Stan the Bat said:
tribbles said:
DocJock said:
Stan the Bat said:
Two Tv's is the answer.
Absolutely the correct answer,I have seen the error of my ways.
donkmeister said:
CivicDuties said:
donkmeister said:
CivicDuties said:
Stottie-ly ridiculous comment.
A roll, barm, bap etc is simply a handy format of bread to contain a filling.Stottie, however, was placed on earth by the gods, to give purpose to bacon.
Arming oneself with a big wedge of stottie cake with plenty of butter and bacon or sausage in the middle, is the best way to experience the copious amounts of weather in County Durham.
Not really faffing but whenever Mrs J is involved in admin or finance it makes me concerned. So she booked our holiday fights, we set off yesterday but winds too high to land (Funchal, Madeira). Airline were great, they flew us to mainland Portugal, sorted transfers and accommodation for a night. All this co-ordinated via messages to Mrs J’s phone since she booked it. So we had the whole day to kill at the hotel before another flight at 18.30. Quite a few planes didn’t make it in today and hence we were potentially facing the same issue again. So we’re about to set off for airport when I ask Mrs J to check her phone to confirm no updates / cancellation from airline. She does so nothing no issues, but also noting that she’s not charged her phone, it’s on 4% battery and about to die. WTAF? So if we get stuck again all the messages about contingency planning would be going to a dead phone. Happily it was a 30 minute journey to the airport which gave her time to explain why her uncharged phone was actually my fault and that it really didn’t matter anyway.
djohnson said:
Not really faffing but whenever Mrs J is involved in admin or finance it makes me concerned. So she booked our holiday fights, we set off yesterday but winds too high to land (Funchal, Madeira). Airline were great, they flew us to mainland Portugal, sorted transfers and accommodation for a night. All this co-ordinated via messages to Mrs J’s phone since she booked it. So we had the whole day to kill at the hotel before another flight at 18.30. Quite a few planes didn’t make it in today and hence we were potentially facing the same issue again. So we’re about to set off for airport when I ask Mrs J to check her phone to confirm no updates / cancellation from airline. She does so nothing no issues, but also noting that she’s not charged her phone, it’s on 4% battery and about to die. WTAF? So if we get stuck again all the messages about contingency planning would be going to a dead phone. Happily it was a 30 minute journey to the airport which gave her time to explain why her uncharged phone was actually my fault and that it really didn’t matter anyway.
You could have put her SIM card in your (presumably fully charged) phone.Most modern phones are a faff to get the micro SIM card out of (plus most phones are now going to e-sim) and airlines usually give more details via their apps than via SMS these days as well so would likely have to download and sign into the app as well.
My other half is annoying, have today off so thought we'd go somewhere but she still hasn't even got ready yet and it's past midday.
My other half is annoying, have today off so thought we'd go somewhere but she still hasn't even got ready yet and it's past midday.
CanAm said:
djohnson said:
Not really faffing but whenever Mrs J is involved in admin or finance it makes me concerned. So she booked our holiday fights, we set off yesterday but winds too high to land (Funchal, Madeira). Airline were great, they flew us to mainland Portugal, sorted transfers and accommodation for a night. All this co-ordinated via messages to Mrs J’s phone since she booked it. So we had the whole day to kill at the hotel before another flight at 18.30. Quite a few planes didn’t make it in today and hence we were potentially facing the same issue again. So we’re about to set off for airport when I ask Mrs J to check her phone to confirm no updates / cancellation from airline. She does so nothing no issues, but also noting that she’s not charged her phone, it’s on 4% battery and about to die. WTAF? So if we get stuck again all the messages about contingency planning would be going to a dead phone. Happily it was a 30 minute journey to the airport which gave her time to explain why her uncharged phone was actually my fault and that it really didn’t matter anyway.
You could have put her SIM card in your (presumably fully charged) phone.Mine has a problem letting go of stuff, she doesnt want something which is unusual as most things will have some use at some point, but she cant just get rid of stuff.
Two old sewing machines came back from my grans and got stuck in a wardrobe, she already has a sewing machine and these werent as good but a whole cupboard taken up by them, she then decides after like 12 years and buying another one that she may not use two old ones when she has two already ones, and an industrial one at her mums.
So, we ask anyone who may need a 1970s sewing machine and nobody wants it, she says she will put it on eBay, they sit in the hall getting in the way for a month with no eBaying so I stick them on, but the advert wasnt good enough, the pictures showed part of a computer monitor in the background which wouldnt do so we spent an hour re-doing the adverts and deciding on the wording.
They sold yesterday for £2.20 each, which netted us £3.24, I have had to stay at home today as someone was picking one up, and the other is coming Friday, or could have binned them and saved the agro ?
Also a pile of jumble from her mums, I offered to take it to the charity shop but no, she needs to go through it, as it may have underwear in and she cant send that, that was two weeks ago and she hasnt gone through it.
I dont get it, just take it to the shop ffs, I offered, I have a bike with panniers and rack and its ideal to do that as its a pig to park, but no, we have to have a bag in the hall looking like its a back alley ffs.
She has had a box of stuff "for eBay" in our room for two years, another one has been stuck in my office now, but I get told to stop moaning if I say I want it moving, she has never eBayed anything I dont think, well without me doing all the legwork, t
tting about posting a pair of shoes she got two quid for, paying for postage, taking them and standing in the post office.
Our bedroom looks like the library in Ghostbusters with the symetrical book stacking, I am considering a work to rule until my demands are met, I spent last weekend doing jobs she wanted doing, not doing it any more !
Two old sewing machines came back from my grans and got stuck in a wardrobe, she already has a sewing machine and these werent as good but a whole cupboard taken up by them, she then decides after like 12 years and buying another one that she may not use two old ones when she has two already ones, and an industrial one at her mums.
So, we ask anyone who may need a 1970s sewing machine and nobody wants it, she says she will put it on eBay, they sit in the hall getting in the way for a month with no eBaying so I stick them on, but the advert wasnt good enough, the pictures showed part of a computer monitor in the background which wouldnt do so we spent an hour re-doing the adverts and deciding on the wording.
They sold yesterday for £2.20 each, which netted us £3.24, I have had to stay at home today as someone was picking one up, and the other is coming Friday, or could have binned them and saved the agro ?
Also a pile of jumble from her mums, I offered to take it to the charity shop but no, she needs to go through it, as it may have underwear in and she cant send that, that was two weeks ago and she hasnt gone through it.
I dont get it, just take it to the shop ffs, I offered, I have a bike with panniers and rack and its ideal to do that as its a pig to park, but no, we have to have a bag in the hall looking like its a back alley ffs.
She has had a box of stuff "for eBay" in our room for two years, another one has been stuck in my office now, but I get told to stop moaning if I say I want it moving, she has never eBayed anything I dont think, well without me doing all the legwork, t
tting about posting a pair of shoes she got two quid for, paying for postage, taking them and standing in the post office.Our bedroom looks like the library in Ghostbusters with the symetrical book stacking, I am considering a work to rule until my demands are met, I spent last weekend doing jobs she wanted doing, not doing it any more !
J4CKO said:
Mine has a problem letting go of stuff, she doesnt want something which is unusual as most things will have some use at some point, but she cant just get rid of stuff.
Two old sewing machines came back from my grans and got stuck in a wardrobe, she already has a sewing machine and these werent as good but a whole cupboard taken up by them, she then decides after like 12 years and buying another one that she may not use two old ones when she has two already ones, and an industrial one at her mums.
So, we ask anyone who may need a 1970s sewing machine and nobody wants it, she says she will put it on eBay, they sit in the hall getting in the way for a month with no eBaying so I stick them on, but the advert wasnt good enough, the pictures showed part of a computer monitor in the background which wouldnt do so we spent an hour re-doing the adverts and deciding on the wording.
They sold yesterday for £2.20 each, which netted us £3.24, I have had to stay at home today as someone was picking one up, and the other is coming Friday, or could have binned them and saved the agro ?
Also a pile of jumble from her mums, I offered to take it to the charity shop but no, she needs to go through it, as it may have underwear in and she cant send that, that was two weeks ago and she hasnt gone through it.
I dont get it, just take it to the shop ffs, I offered, I have a bike with panniers and rack and its ideal to do that as its a pig to park, but no, we have to have a bag in the hall looking like its a back alley ffs.
She has had a box of stuff "for eBay" in our room for two years, another one has been stuck in my office now, but I get told to stop moaning if I say I want it moving, she has never eBayed anything I dont think, well without me doing all the legwork, ttting about posting a pair of shoes she got two quid for, paying for postage, taking them and standing in the post office.
Our bedroom looks like the library in Ghostbusters with the symetrical book stacking, I am considering a work to rule until my demands are met, I spent last weekend doing jobs she wanted doing, not doing it any more !
Sewing machines, I feel your pain. In fairness my wife does do a lot of sewing but off the top of my head we have seven sewing machines at home (she used to run a sewing club and actually has another dozen machines in storage elsewhere). Despite that she is currently dropping hints that she needs a new one but I've insisted on a one in one out policy and she can't bring herself to bin any of the existing ones.Two old sewing machines came back from my grans and got stuck in a wardrobe, she already has a sewing machine and these werent as good but a whole cupboard taken up by them, she then decides after like 12 years and buying another one that she may not use two old ones when she has two already ones, and an industrial one at her mums.
So, we ask anyone who may need a 1970s sewing machine and nobody wants it, she says she will put it on eBay, they sit in the hall getting in the way for a month with no eBaying so I stick them on, but the advert wasnt good enough, the pictures showed part of a computer monitor in the background which wouldnt do so we spent an hour re-doing the adverts and deciding on the wording.
They sold yesterday for £2.20 each, which netted us £3.24, I have had to stay at home today as someone was picking one up, and the other is coming Friday, or could have binned them and saved the agro ?
Also a pile of jumble from her mums, I offered to take it to the charity shop but no, she needs to go through it, as it may have underwear in and she cant send that, that was two weeks ago and she hasnt gone through it.
I dont get it, just take it to the shop ffs, I offered, I have a bike with panniers and rack and its ideal to do that as its a pig to park, but no, we have to have a bag in the hall looking like its a back alley ffs.
She has had a box of stuff "for eBay" in our room for two years, another one has been stuck in my office now, but I get told to stop moaning if I say I want it moving, she has never eBayed anything I dont think, well without me doing all the legwork, t
tting about posting a pair of shoes she got two quid for, paying for postage, taking them and standing in the post office.Our bedroom looks like the library in Ghostbusters with the symetrical book stacking, I am considering a work to rule until my demands are met, I spent last weekend doing jobs she wanted doing, not doing it any more !
djohnson said:
It’s a good point I didn’t think of that (albeit I like to remain contactable myself in case there’s an issue in the business). I did try to add the flight to my app but it wouldn’t do it since I wasn’t the booker.
Luckily mine is dual sim. Maybe a possible answer for future trips is to book your flights separately on your own phones! CanAm said:
djohnson said:
It’s a good point I didn’t think of that (albeit I like to remain contactable myself in case there’s an issue in the business). I did try to add the flight to my app but it wouldn’t do it since I wasn’t the booker.
Luckily mine is dual sim. Maybe a possible answer for future trips is to book your flights separately on your own phones! RizzoTheRat said:
CanAm said:
djohnson said:
It’s a good point I didn’t think of that (albeit I like to remain contactable myself in case there’s an issue in the business). I did try to add the flight to my app but it wouldn’t do it since I wasn’t the booker.
Luckily mine is dual sim. Maybe a possible answer for future trips is to book your flights separately on your own phones! They're handy things to have. I've lent mine to both Mrs D and my FIL for various hospital stays as convenient sockets are not necessarily a given. For a few years I even charged mine once a week on a smallish 12v solar power system in my workshop and used it all week to charge our phones each night.
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