My Wife is annoyed at me because...
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My wife is annoyed at me because I make her late when we go out together.
The fact that when apart, I'm literally never late and she's almost always late is just an incredible coincidence!
As she tumbles down the stairs 20 mins after we should have left in a flurry of make up and straighteners, ruddy faced, leaving the bedroom and bathroom like the pier in Beirut shouting "Where's my boots/handbag?!!" apparently the fact she shouted down some thing from 4 rooms and a stairway away over the top of hairdryer on "full tonto" setting, and I didn't hear it and it's not in the car, is the sole reason we will be running late.
The fact that when apart, I'm literally never late and she's almost always late is just an incredible coincidence!
As she tumbles down the stairs 20 mins after we should have left in a flurry of make up and straighteners, ruddy faced, leaving the bedroom and bathroom like the pier in Beirut shouting "Where's my boots/handbag?!!" apparently the fact she shouted down some thing from 4 rooms and a stairway away over the top of hairdryer on "full tonto" setting, and I didn't hear it and it's not in the car, is the sole reason we will be running late.
Electronicpants said:
My wife is annoyed at me because I make her late when we go out together.
The fact that when apart, I'm literally never late and she's almost always late is just an incredible coincidence!
As she tumbles down the stairs 20 mins after we should have left in a flurry of make up and straighteners, ruddy faced, leaving the bedroom and bathroom like the pier in Beirut shouting "Where's my boots/handbag?!!" apparently the fact she shouted down some thing from 4 rooms and a stairway away over the top of hairdryer on "full tonto" setting, and I didn't hear it and it's not in the car, is the sole reason we will be running late.
Surely you've learnt the standard trick if with a perpetually late partner of telling them the time of arrangements and such are half an hour earlier than they actually are? Dinner at 8? Need to leave by 730? The fact that when apart, I'm literally never late and she's almost always late is just an incredible coincidence!
As she tumbles down the stairs 20 mins after we should have left in a flurry of make up and straighteners, ruddy faced, leaving the bedroom and bathroom like the pier in Beirut shouting "Where's my boots/handbag?!!" apparently the fact she shouted down some thing from 4 rooms and a stairway away over the top of hairdryer on "full tonto" setting, and I didn't hear it and it's not in the car, is the sole reason we will be running late.
Yes dear, I've booked the table for 730, we'll need to leave by about 7.
Job done
Electronicpants said:
My wife is annoyed at me because I make her late when we go out together.
The fact that when apart, I'm literally never late and she's almost always late is just an incredible coincidence!
As she tumbles down the stairs 20 mins after we should have left in a flurry of make up and straighteners, ruddy faced, leaving the bedroom and bathroom like the pier in Beirut shouting "Where's my boots/handbag?!!" apparently the fact she shouted down some thing from 4 rooms and a stairway away over the top of hairdryer on "full tonto" setting, and I didn't hear it and it's not in the car, is the sole reason we will be running late.
You're not alone.The fact that when apart, I'm literally never late and she's almost always late is just an incredible coincidence!
As she tumbles down the stairs 20 mins after we should have left in a flurry of make up and straighteners, ruddy faced, leaving the bedroom and bathroom like the pier in Beirut shouting "Where's my boots/handbag?!!" apparently the fact she shouted down some thing from 4 rooms and a stairway away over the top of hairdryer on "full tonto" setting, and I didn't hear it and it's not in the car, is the sole reason we will be running late.
Not wife, who is brilliant on timekeeping but daughter. Setting an earlier departure time than normal just doesn't work. Even if they set an earlier time. This morning supposed to be setting off at 7:00 to 7:15 in order to drop my car off at garage missing morning traffic, travel in two cars to get there so she can give me lift back to get dog out on early walk. Garage is on an industrial estate in arse end of nowhere. Not my suggestion of departure time but daughter's who is the culprit here.
8:15 so an hour late, swans down are we ready to go? But then announces she must be back by 8:45 as has an online meeting. Errr it takes 25 minutes to get there and 20 minutes back, and that's away from morning rush hour. She knows that.
So I sod off on my own, left to get back however leaving her to her meeting.
It's now my fault I'm late and *her* dog is sitting cross legged waiting for his walk.
Lost count of times going somewhere, have set an early departure time giving safety margin, only to find myself having to :ahem: drive with purposeful intent :ahem: in order to get somewhere on time. Trains, interviews, you name it. Worst case was catching a ferry, Worcestershire to Dover making maximum safe but definitely not legal progress, was unamused. Response as we were last car on, "Why are you annoyed , we got here"
8:15 so an hour late, swans down are we ready to go? But then announces she must be back by 8:45 as has an online meeting. Errr it takes 25 minutes to get there and 20 minutes back, and that's away from morning rush hour. She knows that.
So I sod off on my own, left to get back however leaving her to her meeting.
It's now my fault I'm late and *her* dog is sitting cross legged waiting for his walk.
Lost count of times going somewhere, have set an early departure time giving safety margin, only to find myself having to :ahem: drive with purposeful intent :ahem: in order to get somewhere on time. Trains, interviews, you name it. Worst case was catching a ferry, Worcestershire to Dover making maximum safe but definitely not legal progress, was unamused. Response as we were last car on, "Why are you annoyed , we got here"
Samcat said:
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?
LargeRed said:
can't hear you dear, you're in one room .......... I'm in another !!!
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I have exactly the same problems but my wife is registered as hearing impaired. So we have some utterly pointless Chinese...
whispers type conversations.
But annoyingly it's always me that get up and see them.
Pothole said:
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? In reality, she does provide details of which ones to buy but in the past didn't and its a bit bewildering, the number of brands and types.
Feirny said:
Samcat said:
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?
J4CKO said:
Was just intended as a light hearted post alluding to the complexity and mystique around female sanitary products and comparing it to something we understand.
In reality, she does provide details of which ones to buy but in the past didn't and its a bit bewildering, the number of brands and types.
OK. Came across as standard misogyny. This whole thread and Classics from the Mrs is just chock full of apparently dysfunctional relationships. I c an't imagine why most posters are still married/cohabiting.In reality, she does provide details of which ones to buy but in the past didn't and its a bit bewildering, the number of brands and types.
Pit Pony said:
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)
My wife is upset with me now, because.....I have no clue. I know what she thinks I've done, but it's absolute bull sI 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)
t. I know she's tired and stressed and grieving, so i am not going to bite, but the last 4 hours has been surreal. My wife is annoyed as the decorator who a month ago said he would start last week in October text me earlier this evening checking he is ok to start next Monday ...last week of the month.
She has spent the last month deciding colour schemes...
Her reply "what next Monday thats a bit short notice"
She has spent the last month deciding colour schemes...
Her reply "what next Monday thats a bit short notice"
Pothole said:
J4CKO said:
Was just intended as a light hearted post alluding to the complexity and mystique around female sanitary products and comparing it to something we understand.
In reality, she does provide details of which ones to buy but in the past didn't and its a bit bewildering, the number of brands and types.
OK. Came across as standard misogyny. This whole thread and Classics from the Mrs is just chock full of apparently dysfunctional relationships. I c an't imagine why most posters are still married/cohabiting.In reality, she does provide details of which ones to buy but in the past didn't and its a bit bewildering, the number of brands and types.
Needing some new bedsheets for the spare room, and needing some other stuff from Amazon I mention to the OH that I am going to order them from there too.
OH "We should be supporting a local supplier/store and not a nasty corporate etc etc"
Me: "Ok fair enough - when are we going to cancel that subscription to Prime you got just to watch Outlander?"
OH "That's different"
OH "We should be supporting a local supplier/store and not a nasty corporate etc etc"
Me: "Ok fair enough - when are we going to cancel that subscription to Prime you got just to watch Outlander?"
OH "That's different"
nonsequitur said:
Electronicpants said:
My wife is annoyed at me because I make her late when we go out together.
The fact that when apart, I'm literally never late and she's almost always late is just an incredible coincidence!
As she tumbles down the stairs 20 mins after we should have left in a flurry of make up and straighteners, ruddy faced, leaving the bedroom and bathroom like the pier in Beirut shouting "Where's my boots/handbag?!!" apparently the fact she shouted down some thing from 4 rooms and a stairway away over the top of hairdryer on "full tonto" setting, and I didn't hear it and it's not in the car, is the sole reason we will be running late.
You're not alone.The fact that when apart, I'm literally never late and she's almost always late is just an incredible coincidence!
As she tumbles down the stairs 20 mins after we should have left in a flurry of make up and straighteners, ruddy faced, leaving the bedroom and bathroom like the pier in Beirut shouting "Where's my boots/handbag?!!" apparently the fact she shouted down some thing from 4 rooms and a stairway away over the top of hairdryer on "full tonto" setting, and I didn't hear it and it's not in the car, is the sole reason we will be running late.
Second one, at uni, we had a woman who was a dwarf and as a result couldn’t walk very fast. Every morning she’d leave the house at the same time as her house mates for x o’clock lectures, she’d always take a lot longer and be late. I remember various lecturers saying you are always 5 minutes late, leave 6 minutes earlier, every time she looked puzzled saying her house mates always left at the same time. This went on for 3 years.
Pothole said:
OK. Came across as standard misogyny. This whole thread and Classics from the Mrs is just chock full of apparently dysfunctional relationships. I c an't imagine why most posters are still married/cohabiting.
I think it could just as easily be "My O/H is mad at me...." and "Classic from the O/H" (or even kids!) and it would work just as well. That could cover all genders and relationships equally unfairly.
s2kjock said:
Needing some new bedsheets for the spare room, and needing some other stuff from Amazon I mention to the OH that I am going to order them from there too.
OH "We should be supporting a local supplier/store and not a nasty corporate etc etc"
Me: "Ok fair enough - when are we going to cancel that subscription to Prime you got just to watch Outlander?"
OH "That's different"
Well it is, isn't it? OH "We should be supporting a local supplier/store and not a nasty corporate etc etc"
Me: "Ok fair enough - when are we going to cancel that subscription to Prime you got just to watch Outlander?"
OH "That's different"
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