Anyone else's wife faff about un-necessarily?
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donkmeister said:
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.
Anyone else get moaned at for using the loo ?
Go in for my second sit down of the day, and she makes a song and dance that I am in there, which is weird as she moans if I go in the garden even more....
"You have already been today", didn't know it was rationed ? What can I say, some days I am on a two stop strategy, then moans that it smells, well yep guilty, s
t stinks, what can you do ? As a bloke we have esoteric diets and cant do something that smells like musty lavender once a week, and she is never around when I do one that is largely odourless which I personally find quite disturbing, if your eyes arent burning a little then there is something wrong.
Weirdest bit is we have another toilet ? But it has to be that one, I avoid the downstairs one as I find my efforts tend to find dry land rather than a water landing due to the design of the pan, the builder who fitted it expressed his scepticism about that eventuality and did not hold back on the description, but apparently not a problem for her.
But, still has to use the recently vacated one, one to which I would personally have not returned for at least an hour and then only with a Canary and a Geiger counter, and I "Dealt it".
Go in for my second sit down of the day, and she makes a song and dance that I am in there, which is weird as she moans if I go in the garden even more....
"You have already been today", didn't know it was rationed ? What can I say, some days I am on a two stop strategy, then moans that it smells, well yep guilty, s
t stinks, what can you do ? As a bloke we have esoteric diets and cant do something that smells like musty lavender once a week, and she is never around when I do one that is largely odourless which I personally find quite disturbing, if your eyes arent burning a little then there is something wrong.Weirdest bit is we have another toilet ? But it has to be that one, I avoid the downstairs one as I find my efforts tend to find dry land rather than a water landing due to the design of the pan, the builder who fitted it expressed his scepticism about that eventuality and did not hold back on the description, but apparently not a problem for her.
But, still has to use the recently vacated one, one to which I would personally have not returned for at least an hour and then only with a Canary and a Geiger counter, and I "Dealt it".
J4CKO said:
Anyone else get moaned at for using the loo ?
Go in for my second sit down of the day, and she makes a song and dance that I am in there, which is weird as she moans if I go in the garden even more....
"You have already been today", didn't know it was rationed ? What can I say, some days I am on a two stop strategy, then moans that it smells, well yep guilty, st stinks, what can you do ? As a bloke we have esoteric diets and cant do something that smells like musty lavender once a week, and she is never around when I do one that is largely odourless which I personally find quite disturbing, if your eyes arent burning a little then there is something wrong.
Weirdest bit is we have another toilet ? But it has to be that one, I avoid the downstairs one as I find my efforts tend to find dry land rather than a water landing due to the design of the pan, the builder who fitted it expressed his scepticism about that eventuality and did not hold back on the description, but apparently not a problem for her.
But, still has to use the recently vacated one, one to which I would personally have not returned for at least an hour and then only with a Canary and a Geiger counter, and I "Dealt it".
My pals have one reserved for guests, it seems I don't count. Go in for my second sit down of the day, and she makes a song and dance that I am in there, which is weird as she moans if I go in the garden even more....
"You have already been today", didn't know it was rationed ? What can I say, some days I am on a two stop strategy, then moans that it smells, well yep guilty, s
t stinks, what can you do ? As a bloke we have esoteric diets and cant do something that smells like musty lavender once a week, and she is never around when I do one that is largely odourless which I personally find quite disturbing, if your eyes arent burning a little then there is something wrong.Weirdest bit is we have another toilet ? But it has to be that one, I avoid the downstairs one as I find my efforts tend to find dry land rather than a water landing due to the design of the pan, the builder who fitted it expressed his scepticism about that eventuality and did not hold back on the description, but apparently not a problem for her.
But, still has to use the recently vacated one, one to which I would personally have not returned for at least an hour and then only with a Canary and a Geiger counter, and I "Dealt it".
J4CKO said:
Anyone else get moaned at for using the loo ?
Do you have a man cave of some description? I did a mental stock take and realised that every man I know with a female life partner either has a garage, workshop, office, other man cave... OR if they don't, I have heard their missus moan about how much time he spends in the loo.Fire gazing time is a real thing - most men genuinely need some time for quiet, solitary contemplation and get stressed without that. I reckon it's why so many men are bad at getting enough sleep, we know we need to be sociable and then don't leave enough time to be antisocial... I worked that out whilst quietly contemplating the wisdom of eating the garnish chillis on my lamb jalfrezi with garlic rice and tarka deal.
donkmeister said:
J4CKO said:
Anyone else get moaned at for using the loo ?
Do you have a man cave of some description? I did a mental stock take and realised that every man I know with a female life partner either has a garage, workshop, office, other man cave... OR if they don't, I have heard their missus moan about how much time he spends in the loo.Fire gazing time is a real thing - most men genuinely need some time for quiet, solitary contemplation and get stressed without that. I reckon it's why so many men are bad at getting enough sleep, we know we need to be sociable and then don't leave enough time to be antisocial... I worked that out whilst quietly contemplating the wisdom of eating the garnish chillis on my lamb jalfrezi with garlic rice and tarka deal.
So yeah, well covered on that front, but the toilets are in no mans land
donkmeister said:
J4CKO said:
Anyone else get moaned at for using the loo ?
Do you have a man cave of some description? I did a mental stock take and realised that every man I know with a female life partner either has a garage, workshop, office, other man cave... OR if they don't, I have heard their missus moan about how much time he spends in the loo.Fire gazing time is a real thing - most men genuinely need some time for quiet, solitary contemplation and get stressed without that. I reckon it's why so many men are bad at getting enough sleep, we know we need to be sociable and then don't leave enough time to be antisocial... I worked that out whilst quietly contemplating the wisdom of eating the garnish chillis on my lamb jalfrezi with garlic rice and tarka deal.
J4CKO said:
Anyone else get moaned at for using the loo ?
Go in for my second sit down of the day, and she makes a song and dance that I am in there, which is weird as she moans if I go in the garden even more....
"You have already been today", didn't know it was rationed ? What can I say, some days I am on a two stop strategy, then moans that it smells, well yep guilty, st stinks, what can you do ? As a bloke we have esoteric diets and cant do something that smells like musty lavender once a week, and she is never around when I do one that is largely odourless which I personally find quite disturbing, if your eyes arent burning a little then there is something wrong.
Weirdest bit is we have another toilet ? But it has to be that one, I avoid the downstairs one as I find my efforts tend to find dry land rather than a water landing due to the design of the pan, the builder who fitted it expressed his scepticism about that eventuality and did not hold back on the description, but apparently not a problem for her.
But, still has to use the recently vacated one, one to which I would personally have not returned for at least an hour and then only with a Canary and a Geiger counter, and I "Dealt it".
Have you asked her why she thinks her sGo in for my second sit down of the day, and she makes a song and dance that I am in there, which is weird as she moans if I go in the garden even more....
"You have already been today", didn't know it was rationed ? What can I say, some days I am on a two stop strategy, then moans that it smells, well yep guilty, s
t stinks, what can you do ? As a bloke we have esoteric diets and cant do something that smells like musty lavender once a week, and she is never around when I do one that is largely odourless which I personally find quite disturbing, if your eyes arent burning a little then there is something wrong.Weirdest bit is we have another toilet ? But it has to be that one, I avoid the downstairs one as I find my efforts tend to find dry land rather than a water landing due to the design of the pan, the builder who fitted it expressed his scepticism about that eventuality and did not hold back on the description, but apparently not a problem for her.
But, still has to use the recently vacated one, one to which I would personally have not returned for at least an hour and then only with a Canary and a Geiger counter, and I "Dealt it".
t doesn’t stink?J4CKO said:
Anyone else get moaned at for using the loo ?
In a roundabout kind of way.Used to work abroad on a 6 on 3 off schedule.
About 2 weeks into the 3 weeks off, MrsHD1 would moan that we were using twice as much toilet paper & twice as much coffee as "usual"
My explanation that twice as many people were now drinking coffee & taking a s
t didn't seem to get through.Antony Moxey said:
J4CKO said:
Anyone else get moaned at for using the loo ?
Go in for my second sit down of the day, and she makes a song and dance that I am in there, which is weird as she moans if I go in the garden even more....
"You have already been today", didn't know it was rationed ? What can I say, some days I am on a two stop strategy, then moans that it smells, well yep guilty, st stinks, what can you do ? As a bloke we have esoteric diets and cant do something that smells like musty lavender once a week, and she is never around when I do one that is largely odourless which I personally find quite disturbing, if your eyes arent burning a little then there is something wrong.
Weirdest bit is we have another toilet ? But it has to be that one, I avoid the downstairs one as I find my efforts tend to find dry land rather than a water landing due to the design of the pan, the builder who fitted it expressed his scepticism about that eventuality and did not hold back on the description, but apparently not a problem for her.
But, still has to use the recently vacated one, one to which I would personally have not returned for at least an hour and then only with a Canary and a Geiger counter, and I "Dealt it".
Have you asked her why she thinks her sGo in for my second sit down of the day, and she makes a song and dance that I am in there, which is weird as she moans if I go in the garden even more....
"You have already been today", didn't know it was rationed ? What can I say, some days I am on a two stop strategy, then moans that it smells, well yep guilty, s
t stinks, what can you do ? As a bloke we have esoteric diets and cant do something that smells like musty lavender once a week, and she is never around when I do one that is largely odourless which I personally find quite disturbing, if your eyes arent burning a little then there is something wrong.Weirdest bit is we have another toilet ? But it has to be that one, I avoid the downstairs one as I find my efforts tend to find dry land rather than a water landing due to the design of the pan, the builder who fitted it expressed his scepticism about that eventuality and did not hold back on the description, but apparently not a problem for her.
But, still has to use the recently vacated one, one to which I would personally have not returned for at least an hour and then only with a Canary and a Geiger counter, and I "Dealt it".
t doesn’t stink?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 !
Surely you just bin / charity the stuff yourself?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 !
She will go mad and give you the cold shoulder ..... but 2yrs of s hite just staring at you making you unhappy!!!
Just make it a mission after the Easter weekend to get rid. I bet she won't even notice 1/2 the stuff....
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.The whole phone charging thing is just a common sense thing. I charge my phone every night, religiously, go to bed, put phone on charge and wake up to a phone that generally lasts me the entire day. My partner (as well as disappearing off to bed leaving me to clear up the days detritus), never charges her phone. So she wakes up with 10% battery and one of two things happen: if she’s going into work she will have a mad panic and charge her phone enough to get train tickets etc, or she will leave it charging on her bedside table and remain uncontactable all day as she works in another room…
There is a further certainty, the batteries on her phones have a half life of about 3 months, as her charging habits generally knacker them.
shtu said:
Take bags of tat directly to the tip.
When challenged "oh, I took it to the charity shop, I was gong that way anyway".
Endure a short-lived huff, while getting your sanity back in return.
Yep I do this.When challenged "oh, I took it to the charity shop, I was gong that way anyway".
Endure a short-lived huff, while getting your sanity back in return.
Occasionally she will have a clear out of her clothes and sort them into either a) sell on Vinted or E-Bay b) charity shop or to be thrown but will sort later, meaning they all go into a binbag and into the shed.
I will trip over or move the bag multiple times over the course of 3m or so when in the shed getting tools or the lawnmower out, occasionally I mention the bag of clothes "oh yeahh I must get round to sorting out what to bin and what to take to the charity shop", this never happens so I just either chuck it in the black bin or when I'm next doing a tip run they go with me, she never notices!
J4CKO said:
Anyone else get moaned at for using the loo ?
Go in for my second sit down of the day, and she makes a song and dance that I am in there, which is weird as she moans if I go in the garden even more....
"You have already been today", didn't know it was rationed ? What can I say, some days I am on a two stop strategy, then moans that it smells, well yep guilty, st stinks, what can you do ? As a bloke we have esoteric diets and cant do something that smells like musty lavender once a week, and she is never around when I do one that is largely odourless which I personally find quite disturbing, if your eyes arent burning a little then there is something wrong.
Weirdest bit is we have another toilet ? But it has to be that one, I avoid the downstairs one as I find my efforts tend to find dry land rather than a water landing due to the design of the pan, the builder who fitted it expressed his scepticism about that eventuality and did not hold back on the description, but apparently not a problem for her.
But, still has to use the recently vacated one, one to which I would personally have not returned for at least an hour and then only with a Canary and a Geiger counter, and I "Dealt it".
I just lold at a "2 stop strategy" currently on my 3rd today went medium medium soft it seems...Go in for my second sit down of the day, and she makes a song and dance that I am in there, which is weird as she moans if I go in the garden even more....
"You have already been today", didn't know it was rationed ? What can I say, some days I am on a two stop strategy, then moans that it smells, well yep guilty, s
t stinks, what can you do ? As a bloke we have esoteric diets and cant do something that smells like musty lavender once a week, and she is never around when I do one that is largely odourless which I personally find quite disturbing, if your eyes arent burning a little then there is something wrong.Weirdest bit is we have another toilet ? But it has to be that one, I avoid the downstairs one as I find my efforts tend to find dry land rather than a water landing due to the design of the pan, the builder who fitted it expressed his scepticism about that eventuality and did not hold back on the description, but apparently not a problem for her.
But, still has to use the recently vacated one, one to which I would personally have not returned for at least an hour and then only with a Canary and a Geiger counter, and I "Dealt it".
Mrs. DG indulges in plenty of faffage, so much so, nothing surprises me any more.
What does surprise, sometimes she will do things so out of character it does surprise me.
Mrs. DG is rather petite, 1.67 M, 50 kg, very lady like, hates profanities, goes out of her way to be polite.
Generally in the DG house hold, Monday night is the weekly shop night. Walking around the supermarket; she simultaneously raises a leg, turns to me, giving a cheeky wink, lets out a long flatulent, accompanied by high pitch note which slows down into a thunderous tone; while laughing.
Then returns back to her demur self, like nothing happened.
What does surprise, sometimes she will do things so out of character it does surprise me.
Mrs. DG is rather petite, 1.67 M, 50 kg, very lady like, hates profanities, goes out of her way to be polite.
Generally in the DG house hold, Monday night is the weekly shop night. Walking around the supermarket; she simultaneously raises a leg, turns to me, giving a cheeky wink, lets out a long flatulent, accompanied by high pitch note which slows down into a thunderous tone; while laughing.
Then returns back to her demur self, like nothing happened.
Wife spent 2 days shopping for Easter. Because our grown up children and assorted wife's, boyfriends and babies are depending on us.
Children are typically vague about when they are arriving, or leaving, and say things like, after the babies nap we'll leave. Okay but last time we spoke, he was having 3 naps a day.
Anyway. Wakes me up middle of Thursday night, actually 3 am. to tell me the 1.3kg beef joint she bought, won't be enough for 6 adults.
Okay we have 2 options. I can fill the plates with veg, or
I can go to Waitrose first thing on Good Friday and get a bigger one.
2 hours of ranting about how this was my fault, the fault of the butcher, the end of the world, how I was fobbing her off, would be gone all day when there was things to do. Proper doom and gloom, end of the world. Really angry.
At 7.55 am I got in the car, drove to waitrose. Waited at the door, until the nice lady unlocked it, walked to the meat counter was offered 3 joints of 2.5, 3 and 3.5 kg, took the 3kg one, bought some apples and bananas (no matter how much I say "please buy fruit" She walks straight past it) and at 8:15 I walked back in the front door, and all is good.
My exact words were "Oh ye of little faith, lets make breakfast"
She's been smiling ever since.
What I dont understand is why the words "What's the worst that could happen?" Result in a bigger rant.
Children are typically vague about when they are arriving, or leaving, and say things like, after the babies nap we'll leave. Okay but last time we spoke, he was having 3 naps a day.
Anyway. Wakes me up middle of Thursday night, actually 3 am. to tell me the 1.3kg beef joint she bought, won't be enough for 6 adults.
Okay we have 2 options. I can fill the plates with veg, or
I can go to Waitrose first thing on Good Friday and get a bigger one.
2 hours of ranting about how this was my fault, the fault of the butcher, the end of the world, how I was fobbing her off, would be gone all day when there was things to do. Proper doom and gloom, end of the world. Really angry.
At 7.55 am I got in the car, drove to waitrose. Waited at the door, until the nice lady unlocked it, walked to the meat counter was offered 3 joints of 2.5, 3 and 3.5 kg, took the 3kg one, bought some apples and bananas (no matter how much I say "please buy fruit" She walks straight past it) and at 8:15 I walked back in the front door, and all is good.
My exact words were "Oh ye of little faith, lets make breakfast"
She's been smiling ever since.
What I dont understand is why the words "What's the worst that could happen?" Result in a bigger rant.
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