Anyone else's wife faff about un-necessarily?

[classicaholic]

dave123456 said:

Same when they get to a locked door, usually in the pouring rain. Going through a cavernous handbag looking for keys.

Its the same at the checkout in the supermarket, it seems to come as a surprise that they have to pay and only then route around for their cards or phone!

[vikingaero]

classicaholic said:

dave123456 said:

Same when they get to a locked door, usually in the pouring rain. Going through a cavernous handbag looking for keys.

Its the same at the checkout in the supermarket, it seems to come as a surprise that they have to pay and only then route around for their cards or phone!

I love the surprise part and equally despair. The surprise when they are asked to pay, as thought the supermarket knows them as they are in there all the time and maybe the supermarket should offer them credit or give the shopping to them for free. It's a strange societal norm that we've elevated women to.

The despair from people in the queue behind them as they unzip their bag, unzip another inner pocket, rummage around for their purse, have a purse that unclips in a weird way adding to the delay, stare at the cards to decide which one to use. fail the first PIN entry because of difference PIN for each card and she can't remember. When it does work everyone in the queue thinks "Thank God", but they forget the post-payment phase - receipt folded up neatly and put in slot, card put back neatly and evened out, purse with funny clip doesn't close until the third try, purse put in zipped compartment, zipped compartment zipped up, main bag closed and triple checked.

[Ranger 6]

snuffy said:

Our front and back door keys look the same, so I bought one of those little rubber things you stick over the end of a key so you know which is which. I happened to put a turtle one on the front door key.....

Turtle


Our front and back door keys are the same - it makes life so simple. Doesn't mean that she's actually got the keys to hand though as they're usually buried in the portmanteau or left in the car.

[romft123]

classicaholic said:

dave123456 said:

Same when they get to a locked door, usually in the pouring rain. Going through a cavernous handbag looking for keys.

Its the same at the checkout in the supermarket, it seems to come as a surprise that they have to pay and only then route around for their cards or phone!

I do all the shopping in our house....as I do all the cooking...Doh! So its mainly ladies and the occasional male....ME!
Anyway agree with the above. Tescos.....items all get bagged, THEN the discount vouchers come out, rummage through valid ones, then sorted again to match up with items bought.....THEN the clubcard comes out, swiped, goes back in....rummage around, THEN debit card out.....pay...........And if the 2 women just happen to know each other...................

[bobtail4x4]

I spent 20 mins as second person in queue at post office yesterday,
woman behind counter spent longer talking to another customer (not in queue) anyway I now know all about her mums cancer op today at the local cottage hospital,
and her daughters trip away,
and a few other things I zoned out on,

neither the bloke in front or me managed to actually SEND the parcel we had as she kept pressing random buttons and "computer says no"

[Squishey]

snuffy said:

Our front and back door keys look the same, so I bought one of those little rubber things you stick over the end of a key so you know which is which. I happened to put a turtle one on the front door key.

We came home once in a taxi, and she was dying for a ste, so I gave her my keys whilst I paid the taxi. "Which one is it?" she asked. "It's the one with the turtle's head". I found that very funny, but she didn't !

This deserves more recognition!

I have caps on my keys to help me too. When I first got them my wife said "why on earth did you get those?! It makes your keys look like they belong to a child. It makes you look a bit simple... Blah blah blah". After witnessing her needing five attempts to unlock the front door with two keys, I put one on her front door key. "Oh this is so much easier, why didn't you do that before?"

[Spare tyre]

The Gauge said:

Whenever I drop the wife off somewhere in the car, it's not until I have come to a complete stop the she then 'begins' to get ready to get out of the car....

Grabbing her handbag from the floor, checking for something, can't find it, rummaging about a bit more, then reaching to the back seat for her coat, checking the pockets for something, then unfastening her seatbelt, checking the vanity mirror, then telling me something irrelevant, finally getting out of the car but before slamming the door she mentions something else, then closing the door but somehow not closing it properly, then opening it and slamming it shut..... all whilst there are cars behind waiting for me to move off!!!!!

Why can't they start getting ready to exit the car a few minutes earlier, as I do?

Similar here. Pull up at expected planned destination

I get out, goto boot, get whatever we need. Stand on pavement for a good three or so minutes why wife and daughter etc then spend a further couple of minutes putting on coats etc, so we can walk 30 seconds into the shop / restaurant/ building. We then spend another couple of minutes taking the coats etc back off. A genuine 10 minutes lost each time

[pits]

We had a great conversation the other morning, about the eldest and how useless he is at cooking yet wanting to go to uni, so I suggested you make him cook, he needs to learn, just throw him in at the deep end, put all the ingredients out and a rough plan and let him do it.
"I would do it with him"
"OK, but you two in the kitchen don't mix, he stands there looking gormless and confused, and you flap and get flustered"
Queue argument about how she doesn't, and that is rubbish etc and leaving with "Well you cook it all then"
I get in late, and she has already started, her and the eldest shouting about cooking because she is in a flap and all flustered, just give her the look of "Gone well then has it", twas a little frosty.


Or this morning, plan, go over her mums and set up her new TV, move some furniture around so this gigantic TV can fit in her living room, I told her I had to go and pick up some clays for the shoot tomorrow, then I will be over, turn up, the tv is out the box, leant against a chair, plugged in, internet all connected and nothing has moved, that is ok we will move it all around now, I am here lets do this.....No, we are going up the church fete now....that is on all day, but has to be now, so I let them go off and just did it myself, then when they came back it was "Why haven't you plugged the aerial in?"
probably because it is an analogue aerial and completely defunct?
But how is she going to get her TV channels?
Through the built in digital tuner? This is like plugging a scart lead into a PS5, it isn't going to work.

I plugged it in anyway to "see I told you"

Going to go around and unplug it in the week, then rip the aerial system out of the loft

[Fast and Spurious]

classicaholic said:

Its the same at the checkout in the supermarket, it seems to come as a surprise that they have to pay and only then route around for their cards or phone!

Oh yes, the surprise checkout. Almost as annoying as the surprise green light.

[Roofless Toothless]

classicaholic said:

dave123456 said:

Same when they get to a locked door, usually in the pouring rain. Going through a cavernous handbag looking for keys.

Its the same at the checkout in the supermarket, it seems to come as a surprise that they have to pay and only then route around for their cards or phone!

I was acquainted with a guy who worked in a toll booth at the Dartford crossing, back in the days before it was automated and you had to actually produce some coins to get through.

I asked him what was so special about motorbikes that they got across for nothing, and he told me it took so long for the riders to get their gauntlets off, undo their leathers, search for their wallets, pay - and then get all the gear on again - that queues used to build up.

The irritating thing is, though, they are still not charged all these years after automatic systems have been introduced. I suppose it is because their number plates are not front facing, but they seem to have got away with one there.

[N111BJG]

Roofless Toothless said:

I was acquainted with a guy who worked in a toll booth at the Dartford crossing, back in the days before it was automated and you had to actually produce some coins to get through.

I asked him what was so special about motorbikes that they got across for nothing, and he told me it took so long for the riders to get their gauntlets off, undo their leathers, search for their wallets, pay - and then get all the gear on again - that queues used to build up.

The irritating thing is, though, they are still not charged all these years after automatic systems have been introduced. I suppose it is because their number plates are not front facing, but they seem to have got away with one there.

This is exactly what I do at every peage booth in France as my personal protest against paying. It takes ages, especially when it’s raining, but I refuse to ride off until I have all my kit back on.

[QuickQuack]

pits said:

No, we are going up the church fete now....that is on all day, but has to be now, so I let them go off and just did it myself, then when they came back it was "Why haven't you plugged the aerial in?"
probably because it is an analogue aerial and completely defunct?
But how is she going to get her TV channels?
Through the built in digital tuner? This is like plugging a scart lead into a PS5, it isn't going to work.

I plugged it in anyway to "see I told you"

Going to go around and unplug it in the week, then rip the aerial system out of the loft

Errr, unless she has a TV package via cable or internet, you do know that the the built in digital tuner does need to be connected to an aerial, don't you? I wouldn't rip anything out if I were you. Even if you were correct, it would've been a bad idea to touch something that's functioning and not causing a bother to the user, but in this instance, it definitely is not a good one. A tuner is not the same as an aerial. If the current aerial is functioning well, there's no need to replace it with one that's optimised for digital broadcasts. Aerials designed for analogue broadcasts are perfectly capable of receiving digital broadcasts. And TVs with digital tuners definitely need an aerial.

[Jayzee]

QuickQuack said:

Errr, unless she has a TV package via cable or internet, you do know that the the built in digital tuner does need to be connected to an aerial, don't you? I wouldn't rip anything out if I were you. Even if you were correct, it would've been a bad idea to touch something that's functioning and not causing a bother to the user, but in this instance, it definitely is not a good one. A tuner is not the same as an aerial. If the current aerial is functioning well, there's no need to replace it with one that's optimised for digital broadcasts. Aerials designed for analogue broadcasts are perfectly capable of receiving digital broadcasts. And TVs with digital tuners definitely need an aerial.

Yes, definitely this

[57Ford]

Mention of a humongous tv made me think it was a Sky Glass which wouldn’t need any input except power. I tried one but found it pretty poor due to the lack of recording functionality meaning if I missed the start, I couldn’t begin to watch something until an hour after it was finished and available on catchup. The other reason it went back was because I stupidly chose the large version - even in our pretty large living room, it was like being at the front row of a drive in cinema! You had to turn your head to watch a conversation between two people on screen.

[donkmeister]

N111BJG said:

Roofless Toothless said:

I was acquainted with a guy who worked in a toll booth at the Dartford crossing, back in the days before it was automated and you had to actually produce some coins to get through.

I asked him what was so special about motorbikes that they got across for nothing, and he told me it took so long for the riders to get their gauntlets off, undo their leathers, search for their wallets, pay - and then get all the gear on again - that queues used to build up.

The irritating thing is, though, they are still not charged all these years after automatic systems have been introduced. I suppose it is because their number plates are not front facing, but they seem to have got away with one there.

This is exactly what I do at every peage booth in France as my personal protest against paying. It takes ages, especially when it’s raining, but I refuse to ride off until I have all my kit back on.

Ha, and to think I feel slightly self-conscious about the extra 10 seconds to get to the machines they stupidly put on the passenger side because they still think Napoleon is relevant.

[handpaper]

Roofless Toothless said:

I was acquainted with a guy who worked in a toll booth at the Dartford crossing, back in the days before it was automated and you had to actually produce some coins to get through.

I asked him what was so special about motorbikes that they got across for nothing, and he told me it took so long for the riders to get their gauntlets off, undo their leathers, search for their wallets, pay - and then get all the gear on again - that queues used to build up.

The irritating thing is, though, they are still not charged all these years after automatic systems have been introduced. I suppose it is because their number plates are not front facing, but they seem to have got away with one there.

This was why the bike toll was removed on the Severn bridges, too.

[N111BJG]

donkmeister said:

N111BJG said:

Roofless Toothless said:

I was acquainted with a guy who worked in a toll booth at the Dartford crossing, back in the days before it was automated and you had to actually produce some coins to get through.

I asked him what was so special about motorbikes that they got across for nothing, and he told me it took so long for the riders to get their gauntlets off, undo their leathers, search for their wallets, pay - and then get all the gear on again - that queues used to build up.

The irritating thing is, though, they are still not charged all these years after automatic systems have been introduced. I suppose it is because their number plates are not front facing, but they seem to have got away with one there.

This is exactly what I do at every peage booth in France as my personal protest against paying. It takes ages, especially when it’s raining, but I refuse to ride off until I have all my kit back on.

Ha, and to think I feel slightly self-conscious about the extra 10 seconds to get to the machines they stupidly put on the passenger side because they still think Napoleon is relevant.

The full procedure is that I put the bike on its stand & turn off the engine, then walk across to the payment machine. I often turn to face the waiting traffic & give them a Gallic shrug. It always cheers me up.