The wife that is!
How is it that two people who are so different can fall in love, spend the rest of their lives together and not kill each other. She doesn't understand basketball or my love of Celticsblog. I will just never get starting to listen to Christmas music in October. She steps out of the shower soaking wet and gets the rug all wet. I leave the toilet seat cover up. She needs blankets to sleep. A nice cool room for me. She shops for 10 hours and comes home with one item. I do my Christmas shopping for the entire family, the food shopping, and a run to the Depot in about two hours. I drive on highways, she takes back roads. A great evening for me is home with a beer and the Red Sox on, she needs to go dancing until 2 AM.
How can this be??
And let's not even get into the nagging! Okay, let's:
"The ketchup belongs on the refrigerator door not on the shelf!"
"Pans don't go on the top part of the dishwasher!"
"If I told you once I told you a hundred times, replace the empty roll of toilet paper with a new one when you finish it."
"Did you do the taxes yet? It's February 12th and we only have until April 15th you know!"
"It's Thursday, trash night!!"
"Just don't do the laundry anymore trying to do me any favors. I mean everyone knows you don't wash socks with tee shirts because then you get fuzzy things all over the tee shirts!"
"The back yard needs raking1"
"put your freaking beer bottles on the coasters, you're ruining my tables!!"
"Use the TV guide channel instead of flicking through the stations, you're driving me insane."
"Take the laundry to the cellar please."
"Did you take the laundry down yet?"
"Did you hear me, I asked you to take the laundry downstairs."
"When are you going to take the laundry downstairs."
"Ummmmmmm, the laundry, today!"
"Let me guess you're not going to take the laundry down for me and now I have to hurt my back bringing it down myself!"
I watch the old Honeymooners episodes and see Ralph wanting to punch his wife to the moon and there are those times where the thought goes through the mind sometimes. But what can you do. All our loved ones drive us insane in their own little, and sometimes very big, ways, but we love them to death and would miss all that stuff if they weren't their.
So, it's my 22nd wedding anniversary, 27 total years together, and I can help but think that if she asks me to take down that laundry one more time it's "Pow, straight to the moon!!"
I mean it's only been 5 minutes since she first asked me!!
27 years!!!!!!!!!!!! She is definitely the ying to my yang, my better half but there are those times where I wonder how we made it through all this time without killing each other. Must be I love her more than I can imagine or we did it for the kids.
Oh, and don't even get me started on how much they drive me nuts......
Who puts ketchup on the shelf and pans in the top part of the dishwasher? You poor wife!
While I have no problem leaving the toilets seat down, shouldn't women prefer to have the seat up so that we don't pee on it by mistake in the middle of the night?
I have to agree with her on the TV guide thing. It is pretty annoying when people change the channel and try to figure out what is on when they can just use the guide and know what the program is before switching.
The TV guide thing even bothers me!! It's an old habit from before the self scroll TV guide days I had when we lived in RI a couple years back. They didn't have cable with a self down-paging guide. It was one of those that just constantly moved and you had to wait for the channels you were looking for to come up and tell you what was on. I couldn't ever wait so I just scanned through the channels. Now with digital HDTV it is all different but sometimes I fall back on bad habits and the wife just loves reminding me when bad habits start re-appearing.
And in case all you guys were wondering, I got a pretty and sane one but I fugure she must be dumb as a doornail if she was stupid enough to marry me. I definitely married up, as the saying goes.
My wife got her remote privledges revoked permanantly for that switching channels b.s.
If your wife still let's you have the remote, ever, she is a saint.
I must also confess that I
Edited. Profanity and masked profanity are against forum rules and may result in discipline. at my wife constantly about ketchup (or other obvious door stuff) on shelves in the fridge and not putting stuff in the proper place in the dishwasher. Drives me nuts...it's just common sense, right?
As far as the laundry, I have selective ignorance on that one (ie never knew how to do it her way and don't plan on learning). When she asks for my laundry, I jump up and get it for her immediately...I mean, she is asking to do my laundry for me. I don't want to screw up that little perk. I haven't touched laundry in over a decade, literally not once. My wife recently asked for a new front load washer/dryer and I went out and bought her the exact ones she wanted, no discussion. I plan on never doing laundry again.
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