My Wife is annoyed at me because...
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Mine just got thoroughly irritated by my not answering my phone, despite it being in clear view of where I was, and not actually ringing ( apparently I should have known she was calling!).
Also, her missing mechanical pencil has now turned up in her bedside draws, yet it was the equivalent to calling her thick/stupid when I suggested she had put it somewhere ’safe’..., you could have put it somewhere was the retort (yeah, sure, I love playing hide and seek with other people’s possessions!).
Also, her missing mechanical pencil has now turned up in her bedside draws, yet it was the equivalent to calling her thick/stupid when I suggested she had put it somewhere ’safe’..., you could have put it somewhere was the retort (yeah, sure, I love playing hide and seek with other people’s possessions!).
I’m in the doghouse because she lost her car keys, that I’ve not touched in days. 3 calls to me at work today, each resulting in her hanging up on me, before she messaged me to ask why I’d put them in the conservatory.
Highlighting the fact she was the one who’d been in the conservatory as soon as she came home last night, with her keys, just made matters worse.
Also in trouble for not getting anything out for tea, even though we’d discussed having jacket spuds. I still should have got them out, apparently.
Highlighting the fact she was the one who’d been in the conservatory as soon as she came home last night, with her keys, just made matters worse.
Also in trouble for not getting anything out for tea, even though we’d discussed having jacket spuds. I still should have got them out, apparently.
Feirny said:
I’m in the doghouse because she lost her car keys, that I’ve not touched in days. 3 calls to me at work today, each resulting in her hanging up on me, before she messaged me to ask why I’d put them in the conservatory.
Highlighting the fact she was the one who’d been in the conservatory as soon as she came home last night, with her keys, just made matters worse.
Also in trouble for not getting anything out for tea, even though we’d discussed having jacket spuds. I still should have got them out, apparently.
Got them out of what, their jackets?Highlighting the fact she was the one who’d been in the conservatory as soon as she came home last night, with her keys, just made matters worse.
Also in trouble for not getting anything out for tea, even though we’d discussed having jacket spuds. I still should have got them out, apparently.
Pothole said:
Feirny said:
I’m in the doghouse because she lost her car keys, that I’ve not touched in days. 3 calls to me at work today, each resulting in her hanging up on me, before she messaged me to ask why I’d put them in the conservatory.
Highlighting the fact she was the one who’d been in the conservatory as soon as she came home last night, with her keys, just made matters worse.
Also in trouble for not getting anything out for tea, even though we’d discussed having jacket spuds. I still should have got them out, apparently.
Got them out of what, their jackets?Highlighting the fact she was the one who’d been in the conservatory as soon as she came home last night, with her keys, just made matters worse.
Also in trouble for not getting anything out for tea, even though we’d discussed having jacket spuds. I still should have got them out, apparently.
Jeez this thread 
I've been in a similar sort of relationship to some of these situations and I'm glad to be free of it. Hang in there men, hold on to the fact that at least one day one of you will die and then you'll be free, one way or another!
I assume the mumsnet equivalent to this thread is:
My Husband is a lazy, ignorant, selfish, arrogant, incompetent prick whom I despise because...
I've been in a similar sort of relationship to some of these situations and I'm glad to be free of it. Hang in there men, hold on to the fact that at least one day one of you will die and then you'll be free, one way or another!
I assume the mumsnet equivalent to this thread is:
My Husband is a lazy, ignorant, selfish, arrogant, incompetent prick whom I despise because...
Reading this thread is making me very glad I don't need to contend with a wife like that, I sympathise with you all!
Closest I had recently which I found quite funny was the following:
Mate wants to meet me at the Ace Cafe for a Saturday breakfast so I can see his new Harley. It's 10 mins from my mum's house so we stay over the night before so we can see her too. Wife likes the Ace Cafe and has never met this friend (owner of a company I contract out to at work) so is keen to come too. We're meant to be there for 10am.
I'm taking my MX-5 but it's been stood up at my mum's for a while so I get up early, swap the wheels over do general tinkering and at quarter to when I'm as ready as I can be I get changed quickly and ask the wife if she's ready. Now she declares she's not ready, she doesn't look nice and doesn't want to come. I don't have a lot of time to argue as my mate is always punctual so I jump in the car and head out. We have a nice breakfast, I show him around my car and he lets me have a go on the Harley, which I immediately fall in love with having never wanted one before.
I get home about 1ish and ask my wife what she wants to do for the rest of the day, she says she's very hungry and needs to do shopping so I suggest Westfield. I'm getting my various things together and notice wife isn't being very vocal- so I ask what the problem is and her response was "YOU'RE THE F*CKING PROBLEM".
Anyway, after a nice big breakfast she cheered right up and was then fine. My wife can get very hangry and even her work colleagues know not to mess with her lunch break time!
Short version:
Wife last minute decided to not attend prearranged breakfast meet up and was therefore left hungry while I went. Was therefore hungry when I got back. All my fault.
Closest I had recently which I found quite funny was the following:
Mate wants to meet me at the Ace Cafe for a Saturday breakfast so I can see his new Harley. It's 10 mins from my mum's house so we stay over the night before so we can see her too. Wife likes the Ace Cafe and has never met this friend (owner of a company I contract out to at work) so is keen to come too. We're meant to be there for 10am.
I'm taking my MX-5 but it's been stood up at my mum's for a while so I get up early, swap the wheels over do general tinkering and at quarter to when I'm as ready as I can be I get changed quickly and ask the wife if she's ready. Now she declares she's not ready, she doesn't look nice and doesn't want to come. I don't have a lot of time to argue as my mate is always punctual so I jump in the car and head out. We have a nice breakfast, I show him around my car and he lets me have a go on the Harley, which I immediately fall in love with having never wanted one before.
I get home about 1ish and ask my wife what she wants to do for the rest of the day, she says she's very hungry and needs to do shopping so I suggest Westfield. I'm getting my various things together and notice wife isn't being very vocal- so I ask what the problem is and her response was "YOU'RE THE F*CKING PROBLEM".
Anyway, after a nice big breakfast she cheered right up and was then fine. My wife can get very hangry and even her work colleagues know not to mess with her lunch break time!
Short version:
Wife last minute decided to not attend prearranged breakfast meet up and was therefore left hungry while I went. Was therefore hungry when I got back. All my fault.
Mine usually moans when I return from Sainsburys.
I go with the list, do the shopping, pay for it, bring it home having paid for it (Usually £150 each week) and then she goes through it.
Dont buy the big ones, i.e. buy everything that is packaged twice and costs twice as much for half the product.
Why did you get that massive milk ! Well, as explained last time, the choice was big milk carton or no milk.
What did you buy that for - well I am a big boy now and I fancied some and paid for it.
I dont buy that brand, I prefer brand x - well do the shopping then
I didnt mean those - well from the badly handwritten note it was hard to decipher the actual, if it was Aldi you would have got the Euphonium and Gazebo that those words looked like.
Then, for certain stuff - she bans anyone from eating it, then complains if I do, apparently buying it does not give you the right to eat it, it then sits there until past the sell by date and goes in the bin.
More booze ? - well, wonder why that is....
Cant just say Tampons, need to be very specific, diameter, length and whether left or right hand thread, I know you are imperial and not metric at your age though. They have different flow rates I notice, is that a K and N filter for them ?
There is no space in the cupboard/Fridge/Freezer, where are you going to put that - bend over and I will show you....
I go with the list, do the shopping, pay for it, bring it home having paid for it (Usually £150 each week) and then she goes through it.
Dont buy the big ones, i.e. buy everything that is packaged twice and costs twice as much for half the product.
Why did you get that massive milk ! Well, as explained last time, the choice was big milk carton or no milk.
What did you buy that for - well I am a big boy now and I fancied some and paid for it.
I dont buy that brand, I prefer brand x - well do the shopping then
I didnt mean those - well from the badly handwritten note it was hard to decipher the actual, if it was Aldi you would have got the Euphonium and Gazebo that those words looked like.
Then, for certain stuff - she bans anyone from eating it, then complains if I do, apparently buying it does not give you the right to eat it, it then sits there until past the sell by date and goes in the bin.
More booze ? - well, wonder why that is....
Cant just say Tampons, need to be very specific, diameter, length and whether left or right hand thread, I know you are imperial and not metric at your age though. They have different flow rates I notice, is that a K and N filter for them ?
There is no space in the cupboard/Fridge/Freezer, where are you going to put that - bend over and I will show you....
Feirny said:
Pothole said:
Feirny said:
I’m in the doghouse because she lost her car keys, that I’ve not touched in days. 3 calls to me at work today, each resulting in her hanging up on me, before she messaged me to ask why I’d put them in the conservatory.
Highlighting the fact she was the one who’d been in the conservatory as soon as she came home last night, with her keys, just made matters worse.
Also in trouble for not getting anything out for tea, even though we’d discussed having jacket spuds. I still should have got them out, apparently.
Got them out of what, their jackets?Highlighting the fact she was the one who’d been in the conservatory as soon as she came home last night, with her keys, just made matters worse.
Also in trouble for not getting anything out for tea, even though we’d discussed having jacket spuds. I still should have got them out, apparently.
I hesitate to ask in case I've been doing this wrong for 30yrs and give my wife another reason to be angry at me, but do potatoes need to be kept in the fridge?
WestyCarl said:
Potatoes in the fridge
I hesitate to ask in case I've been doing this wrong for 30yrs and give my wife another reason to be angry at me, but do potatoes need to be kept in the fridge?
In a cool dark place, but not in a bag. They sweat as I recall. I'm feeling quite chipper after that.I hesitate to ask in case I've been doing this wrong for 30yrs and give my wife another reason to be angry at me, but do potatoes need to be kept in the fridge?
WestyCarl said:
Potatoes in the fridge
I hesitate to ask in case I've been doing this wrong for 30yrs and give my wife another reason to be angry at me, but do potatoes need to be kept in the fridge?
In many situations the easiest solution to this is to look at how things are stored in supermarkets. They'll typically store them in whatever is the most cost effective way of keeping them sellable long enough to reach their use by date, so you're probably in fairly safe hands copying them.I hesitate to ask in case I've been doing this wrong for 30yrs and give my wife another reason to be angry at me, but do potatoes need to be kept in the fridge?
WestyCarl said:
Potatoes in the fridge
I hesitate to ask in case I've been doing this wrong for 30yrs and give my wife another reason to be angry at me, but do potatoes need to be kept in the fridge?
We do, nice and dark in there, provided the light really does go off when you shut the door I hesitate to ask in case I've been doing this wrong for 30yrs and give my wife another reason to be angry at me, but do potatoes need to be kept in the fridge?
Mine was annoyed with me because I locked the door on the way out, and she had to unlock it when she needed to go back in for something she forgot.
I once saw my neighbour take a golf club to his front door, because his wife had left something behind and wouldn't turn off the engine to give him the keys !!
TRUE !!
J4CKO said:
Mine usually moans when I return from Sainsburys.
I go with the list, do the shopping, pay for it, bring it home having paid for it (Usually £150 each week) and then she goes through it.
Dont buy the big ones, i.e. buy everything that is packaged twice and costs twice as much for half the product.
Why did you get that massive milk ! Well, as explained last time, the choice was big milk carton or no milk.
What did you buy that for - well I am a big boy now and I fancied some and paid for it.
I dont buy that brand, I prefer brand x - well do the shopping then
I didnt mean those - well from the badly handwritten note it was hard to decipher the actual, if it was Aldi you would have got the Euphonium and Gazebo that those words looked like.
Then, for certain stuff - she bans anyone from eating it, then complains if I do, apparently buying it does not give you the right to eat it, it then sits there until past the sell by date and goes in the bin.
More booze ? - well, wonder why that is....
Cant just say Tampons, need to be very specific, diameter, length and whether left or right hand thread, I know you are imperial and not metric at your age though. They have different flow rates I notice, is that a K and N filter for them ?
There is no space in the cupboard/Fridge/Freezer, where are you going to put that - bend over and I will show you....
Why be a tI go with the list, do the shopping, pay for it, bring it home having paid for it (Usually £150 each week) and then she goes through it.
Dont buy the big ones, i.e. buy everything that is packaged twice and costs twice as much for half the product.
Why did you get that massive milk ! Well, as explained last time, the choice was big milk carton or no milk.
What did you buy that for - well I am a big boy now and I fancied some and paid for it.
I dont buy that brand, I prefer brand x - well do the shopping then
I didnt mean those - well from the badly handwritten note it was hard to decipher the actual, if it was Aldi you would have got the Euphonium and Gazebo that those words looked like.
Then, for certain stuff - she bans anyone from eating it, then complains if I do, apparently buying it does not give you the right to eat it, it then sits there until past the sell by date and goes in the bin.
More booze ? - well, wonder why that is....
Cant just say Tampons, need to be very specific, diameter, length and whether left or right hand thread, I know you are imperial and not metric at your age though. They have different flow rates I notice, is that a K and N filter for them ?
There is no space in the cupboard/Fridge/Freezer, where are you going to put that - bend over and I will show you....
t about tampons? My wife got all upset when I suggested that at some time in the future, she'd probably suffer from PTSD after her Dad's death, and that is be there to put her back together.
I said this because she and her sister nursed him in a hospital bed for 2 weeks 24 hours a day in his dining room, and then her cognitively impaired mother has moved in for the last 2 weeks, and then there was the stress of the Tier 3 funeral, and one of her sister's grown up kids having more tests (?cancer?) And then, our daughter phoning in tears at midnight because Grandads dead.
Apparently my wife doesn't have the time or energy to waste it on being self indulgent, and nobody must ever see how she really feels. (Apart from me, when I clearly have not attempted to understand)
I said this because she and her sister nursed him in a hospital bed for 2 weeks 24 hours a day in his dining room, and then her cognitively impaired mother has moved in for the last 2 weeks, and then there was the stress of the Tier 3 funeral, and one of her sister's grown up kids having more tests (?cancer?) And then, our daughter phoning in tears at midnight because Grandads dead.
Apparently my wife doesn't have the time or energy to waste it on being self indulgent, and nobody must ever see how she really feels. (Apart from me, when I clearly have not attempted to understand)
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