Anyone else's wife faff about un-necessarily?
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Pothole said:
robinessex said:
CanAm said:
robinessex said:
Wife in Spain with her friends for a long weekend break. faffing about, she's lost her mobile phone ! It gets worse, It’s an iphone 7, only 5 months into a 24 month contract, and she didn’t insure it! It’s the second mobile she lost now !
Check your Household and Travel insurance policies- it may be covered under them.VGTICE said:
Pothole said:
robinessex said:
CanAm said:
robinessex said:
Wife in Spain with her friends for a long weekend break. faffing about, she's lost her mobile phone ! It gets worse, It’s an iphone 7, only 5 months into a 24 month contract, and she didn’t insure it! It’s the second mobile she lost now !
Check your Household and Travel insurance policies- it may be covered under them.Pothole said:
robinessex said:
CanAm said:
robinessex said:
Wife in Spain with her friends for a long weekend break. faffing about, she's lost her mobile phone ! It gets worse, It’s an iphone 7, only 5 months into a 24 month contract, and she didn’t insure it! It’s the second mobile she lost now !
Check your Household and Travel insurance policies- it may be covered under them.cossy400 said:
Bank holiday surprise visit to the mother in laws tomorrow.
She doesn't know but the Step daughter and BF are there so we know its not a wasted trip.
Anyways I couldn't have today off work so going at 6am tomorrow morning, MRS400 been off work all day today so I "suggested" she should commence packing as we need to be gone in the morning.
Ive not long rolled in from work, to be greeted with ZERO done on the packing front but shes sorted the dogs stuff out in to a bag.
So ive gone upstairs and started piling a few things up, shes arrives and says no no leave that ill do it in the morning.....
MRS400s normal time for awakening is 645am of a week day, and when she sees fit on a weekend.
This is not going to end well.
HOWEVER shes had her nails done so all is well FFS
Ha ha - I feel your pain.She doesn't know but the Step daughter and BF are there so we know its not a wasted trip.
Anyways I couldn't have today off work so going at 6am tomorrow morning, MRS400 been off work all day today so I "suggested" she should commence packing as we need to be gone in the morning.
Ive not long rolled in from work, to be greeted with ZERO done on the packing front but shes sorted the dogs stuff out in to a bag.
So ive gone upstairs and started piling a few things up, shes arrives and says no no leave that ill do it in the morning.....
MRS400s normal time for awakening is 645am of a week day, and when she sees fit on a weekend.
This is not going to end well.
HOWEVER shes had her nails done so all is well FFS
We're going on holiday this Friday and need to set off for the airport at 1.30pm.
I've specifically told her that we need to leave at 12.30pm (which as far as she knows is the correct time for leaving) as I know she'll leave her packing until Friday morning and will be running round panicking and will definitely be late. As you say though, various nail, hair, eyelash appointments will all be attended this week after work, leaving her no time to do the essentials!
It drives me mad.....and it happens every time we go away.
Food shopping.
I'm a straight in, straight out kind of shopper. I know what we need and I know which aisles the things I need are on. If I were left to it, I'd be in and out in about 15 minutes.
When I go with my wife, I can literally do a lap of the supermarket and get everything I need then return to the first aisle and she'll still be there checking the dates on lettuce or trying to figure out which cheese has less calories. It drives me utterly insane. I've had to resort to nudging her with the trolley just to keep her moving.
I'm a straight in, straight out kind of shopper. I know what we need and I know which aisles the things I need are on. If I were left to it, I'd be in and out in about 15 minutes.
When I go with my wife, I can literally do a lap of the supermarket and get everything I need then return to the first aisle and she'll still be there checking the dates on lettuce or trying to figure out which cheese has less calories. It drives me utterly insane. I've had to resort to nudging her with the trolley just to keep her moving.
Nezquick said:
Food shopping.
I'm a straight in, straight out kind of shopper. I know what we need and I know which aisles the things I need are on. If I were left to it, I'd be in and out in about 15 minutes.
When I go with my wife, I can literally do a lap of the supermarket and get everything I need then return to the first aisle and she'll still be there checking the dates on lettuce or trying to figure out which cheese has less calories. It drives me utterly insane. I've had to resort to nudging her with the trolley just to keep her moving.
Lol, as a shift worker I now do all the shopping during the week on my own.I'm a straight in, straight out kind of shopper. I know what we need and I know which aisles the things I need are on. If I were left to it, I'd be in and out in about 15 minutes.
When I go with my wife, I can literally do a lap of the supermarket and get everything I need then return to the first aisle and she'll still be there checking the dates on lettuce or trying to figure out which cheese has less calories. It drives me utterly insane. I've had to resort to nudging her with the trolley just to keep her moving.
Does wonders for the speed and the bill at the end.
robinessex said:
Me too. A spreadsheet with all the stuff we'll ever need, complete with isle numbers. Goes on the fridge door Monday, marked up as appropriate during the week I grab it very early Friday/Saturday, and do an Olympic shop. My record is 17 Minutes for a complete shopping trolley full.
CrikeyI accept your challenge
robinessex said:
Me too. A spreadsheet with all the stuff we'll ever need, complete with isle numbers. Goes on the fridge door Monday, marked up as appropriate during the week I grab it very early Friday/Saturday, and do an Olympic shop. My record is 17 Minutes for a complete shopping trolley full.
Spreadsheets for shopping with aisle numbers? Timing shopping trips? f
k me, sounds like a faffing wife is the least of your worries.She is faffing as I type this.
"Right I'll go and do the drying up and sort the kitchen, xyz is on soon so I'll be quick" she said that 15 minutes ago, she did actually go into the kitchen but came out very quickly with a knife and decided to unbox and set up the grandsons Bosch tool kit that she bought him, so she is currently putting batteries in the tools and showing me what each one does.
Now she is watching videos that the youngest took, of her with the tools!
"Right I'll go and do the drying up and sort the kitchen, xyz is on soon so I'll be quick" she said that 15 minutes ago, she did actually go into the kitchen but came out very quickly with a knife and decided to unbox and set up the grandsons Bosch tool kit that she bought him, so she is currently putting batteries in the tools and showing me what each one does.
Now she is watching videos that the youngest took, of her with the tools!
Edited by HTP99 on Tuesday 30th May 20:22
Gary C said:
robinessex said:
Me too. A spreadsheet with all the stuff we'll ever need, complete with isle numbers. Goes on the fridge door Monday, marked up as appropriate during the week I grab it very early Friday/Saturday, and do an Olympic shop. My record is 17 Minutes for a complete shopping trolley full.
CrikeyI accept your challenge
(Several large planters for wedding flowers, the boss asked what took so long!)
robinessex said:
Was, but Lloyds stopped it.
No doubt Mrs R Essex is home by now ordering a nice shiny new phone, but did she try to solve the problem by:-1. Using the 'Find my phone' feature
2. Actually ringing it in case she could hear it or some nice honest person could return it.
3. Blocking it in case it has personal details or a banking app.
(I hate unfinished stories!
)Edited by CanAm on Wednesday 31st May 07:52
This morning, she's leaving for a business trip abroad. I will be dropping her off at the railway station. Last night I tell her that I'll get up a bit early to allow her extra time to get ready, as I know she won't do any prep/packing the night before. Never does, never will. Before bed last night we agree that leaving at 8 will be fine (takes me an hour to drive to work usually, I want to arrive by 9). Morning comes, I get up first and get cracking.
08.05 arrives, still faffing about. OMG where is the plug adapter for Europe for my phone charger?? Me: 'It's in the place I always put it so I know where it is, and which I've told you about 86 times, dear.' I go to the location, and yep, there it is. She's been looking everywhere else for it for ages. We proceed to the car, I switch the engine on and she says: "I think I've got everything." Me: " Passport?". Her: "ARGH. No. I'm going by train (Eurostar), didn't think I'd need it." She's 47. FFS. I switch the car off and she waits for me to give her the keys. She's got her own. Looks daggers at me, "Oh, OK then, I'll use my own". Yep. Returns to car some time later, thank Christ she found the passport (in the place I always keep them, I remain silent on the matter), we depart at 8.15. Halfway to the station: "I've not really packed anything good to wear, it's all rubbish. It was such a rush". Me: "Sigh". Her: "I don't understand why you get so upset about this."
What's the expression, learn to accept that which you cannot change?
08.05 arrives, still faffing about. OMG where is the plug adapter for Europe for my phone charger?? Me: 'It's in the place I always put it so I know where it is, and which I've told you about 86 times, dear.' I go to the location, and yep, there it is. She's been looking everywhere else for it for ages. We proceed to the car, I switch the engine on and she says: "I think I've got everything." Me: " Passport?". Her: "ARGH. No. I'm going by train (Eurostar), didn't think I'd need it." She's 47. FFS. I switch the car off and she waits for me to give her the keys. She's got her own. Looks daggers at me, "Oh, OK then, I'll use my own". Yep. Returns to car some time later, thank Christ she found the passport (in the place I always keep them, I remain silent on the matter), we depart at 8.15. Halfway to the station: "I've not really packed anything good to wear, it's all rubbish. It was such a rush". Me: "Sigh". Her: "I don't understand why you get so upset about this."
What's the expression, learn to accept that which you cannot change?
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