My wife and I go through this little dance every couple of months.
Since I stay up later and get up earlier than she, I will usually load and run the dishwasher before I go to bed. How it gets unloaded is another story.
Her: "Thanks for running the dishwasher, but can you put the dishes away before you leave in the morning. It would save me a lot of time trying to get get the kids ready."
Me: "Sure, but I thought you said the noise woke the kids up too early?"
Her: "I don't care about that. I just need some help."
A few weeks go by...
Her: "Thanks for putting the dishes away, but just let me do it. The noise woke the kids up way too early, and they were driving me nuts."
Me: "Okay, but I thought you said you were too busy to mess with it?"
Her: "I don't care about that. I just need some time to my self in the morning."
A few more weeks go by...
Her: "Thanks for running the dishwasher, but can you put the dishes away..."
I swear we have gone back forth on this six or seven times just in the last couple of years.
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Here's a doozie. Last night my wife starts getting wound up because she thinks the new landscaping is going to die because it has been so dry. I had hoses and sprinklers placed strategically around the house so we can keep the stuff irrigated, so I looks out one of the windows and note a conspicuous lack of a hose.
"Hey, where's the hose?" I ask.
" I don't know," is the hesitant reply, followed by a question about how hard it would be to just unwind one of the hoses, that is on a spool on the other side of the house. She asks how hard it would be to, you know, go back behind the trash can, unwind the hose and start watering the beds on the other side. This is a 9:15 PM and I too tired to really try and figure out where the stupid hose walked off too. So I do it. I go out there in my boxers, un wind the hose, drag the hose to the opposite end of the house, and start watering, even bringing a flashlight to make sure the spray was hitting all the plants.
I still wasn't happy with the "I don't know" answer, so I asked one of my kids if he knew where the green hose was. "Sure, Mom threw it out." I pause and clarified what I just heard. So I return to my wife and re-ask the question...
"So, uhh, where is my green hose, really?" I ask, making full eye contact.
"I threw it out," she says, avoiding my look.
"OK..was it broken?" I ask.
"No, is was green," she say now starting to gaze at me.
"You threw out the hose I put there to irrigate the plants because it was green, play dumb, never replace it, and have me running around out there in my boxers to fix an 'emergency' you created in the first place?"
"But it was just an awful green and it looked bad out there because the plants are a different green." Now she is starting to get a head of steam and staring me down because she actually feels justified in her actions and is acting like I am some kind of rube.
I just walked away. What could I have said?
This event concerns me because usually she is kind of a passive idiot and I just have to mop up things she missed or can't figure out. This was a whole new breed of aggressive, intentional, idiocy and her plucky defense of it is scary.
Maybe she discovered about your blog!
Women are idiots!
Women don't usually hold onto trivial information for more time than it takes to have the conversation. Once its over, so is her memory of it; which is why you have to repeat yourself over and over again. When you're lying on your death bed, you can attribute 1/2 of your relationship to having the same stupid conversations over and over again. Women just think this is normal while men get pissed off because every second they spend repeating themselves is considered wasted time. The next time you feel one of these trivial conversations is happening, write it on a piece of paper and stick it to the fridge. When the conversation starts up again, just point to the fridge, tell her to grab you a beer because you're going to go sit outside and drink it while she reads it and comes up to speed with you.
Not every woman is like this. It's the exact opposite at my house.
The moment a woman gets married she begins the process of becoming a total idiot. The transformn from attractive and intelligent woman into idiot wife takes about 5 years to complete but once she's married she will change into a blubbering mass of stupidity. Women view marriage as retirement. She knows she'll never have to work again now that she got you the guy to make all the money and pay for everything. Now she can gain weight, pop out a few kids and turn herself into a babbling idiot.
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