Wife and I go for a 2 mile walk every day unless it's a monsoon or a blizzard.

Sundays, wife's sister usually goes with us.

Wife's sister is a liberal, a Hillary supporter, a Trump hater and just to put a little icing on the cake, incapable of being wrong. Ever. About anything. AND, she loves to argue. If she's winning, she'll change sides just to keep it going.

Drives me absolutely batshit. Most days, I get a firm grip on my tongue with my incisors and recite the times tables or something.

Today it was incessant. Started when she showed up for the ride to the walking destination du jour, continued throughout the ride over, the walk and the ride back. Just before we got back to the house, they decided they needed to discuss the Bible and whether or not it condoned slavery and/or condemned homosexuality.

I lost it. Before I could stop myself, I uttered The Phrase of Death: "How about we all just shut the fuck up?"

Didn't work in the truck, but it seems to be working especially well since I got home. I got The Speech about what a self-centered, intolerant male chauvinist prick I am, and now I'm getting The Silent Treatment.

Works for me...

My wife's unmarried sister means well, but she's judgmental and passive aggressive, and has asked my wife to chauffer her to from the airport maybe 50 times in our 20 years of marriage. (That's an aside). I can only handle brief snippets of chit chat with her.

This is why men have garages. Or barns.

My wife knows better than to expose me to such people, be they friends, family or whatever. She knows my patience has bounds and, when those bounds are exceeded, well...

Heck, Paul: You got what you wanted, right? Silence

Are there any treacherous cliffs on your walking routes? Just ask'n.

Jim

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Originally posted by Jimbo54:
Are there any treacherous cliffs on your walking routes? Just ask'n.

Jim

SiL walks some of the more challenging trails at Acadia. Including one called (IIRC) The Cliff Walk. Several people have fallen over the years. For a 76 year old lady, she's VERY active.

Including, unfortunately, her mouth...

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:

Heck, Paul: You got what you wanted, right? Silence

Well, yeah, but you know how that goes. She does make a good point tho: She doesn't have anybody to talk to, and I should be more willing to put up with her sister for an hour or two. Most days, I can manage it. Today was not one of those days.

I've often thought that if somebody wanted to give me the Perfect Gift, it would be a solid week of never hearing another human being speak. I don't want to go deaf or anything, I just want people to stop babbling.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:

...I've often thought that if somebody wanted to give me the Perfect Gift, it would be a solid week of never hearing another human being speak. I don't want to go deaf or anything, I just want people to stop babbling.

I wouldn't insist on absolute silence, I just wish that if they didn't have anything to say, they didn't say anything. Some people seem to be allergic to quiet.

Your SIL sounds like a separate issue. You don't sound close enough to her to warrant intimate conversation, and she's not smart enough to avoid intimate topics - you know, sex, politics, and religion. She sounds like a clod.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
I've often thought that if somebody wanted to give me the Perfect Gift, it would be a solid week of never hearing another human being speak. I don't want to go deaf or anything, I just want people to stop babbling.

I'm hearing impaired. When I got my current set of hearing aids at Costco, the audiologist programmed them with the "spouse switch" option; if I press one of the control buttons on the left earpiece and hold it for three seconds, the hearing aid amplifiers turn off. They stay muted until I press and hold the same control button.

Haven't used them as a "spouse switch" yet (I kind of like having TWO testicles), but I do use this feature when I'm going to do something noisy, like for instance power up the hydraulic pump that raises and lowers the big hangar door.

Sounds like a win to me. Sorry that you offended your wife.

Don't you have a Trump shirt you could wear? How about a less offensive one, like my "Hillary for prison" shirt.

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now I'm getting The Silent Treatment.

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Originally posted by whanson_wi:

I wouldn't insist on absolute silence, I just wish that if they didn't have anything to say, they didn't say anything. Some people seem to be allergic to quiet.

Your SIL sounds like a separate issue. You don't sound close enough to her to warrant intimate conversation, and she's not smart enough to avoid intimate topics - you know, sex, politics, and religion. She sounds like a clod.

The highlighted statement is exactly right. If you don't have anything to say, or don't know what you're talking about, SHUT UP!

She was actually arguing with my wife, she knows better than to start that shit with me. I was a captive audience in the truck and it was one of those days where it got on my last nerve.

Wife is talking to me again (dang it... ) and says she's "...worried about me. You can't stand to see other people have a little fun."

"Arguing for no reason is fun?"

"It is for us."

God help me.

Bring a pair of headphones and enjoy some tunes while the hens cluck.

If she couldn't figure out it was time to STFU, I see no problem with you pointing it out.

LOL... but I can see the wife not liking it.

Thank you for my laugh of the day.

You don't know what earbuds are for, do ya?

I got yelled at today at work by a guy who was complaining that his neighbor had a gun and it was "unregistered". I explained to him that gun registries were and should be illegal here. He then yelled at me for making things "political" and that no one in their right mind would support not having mandatory gun registries.

My grand dad had a saying about the differences between people thinking you are an idiot and you opening your mouth and proving it.

Oh, and in case you are wondering, there is no doubt in my mind who the snowflake voted for last year.....

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Originally posted by jljones:
I got yelled at today at work by a guy who was complaining that his neighbor had a gun and it was "unregistered". I explained to him that gun registries were and should be illegal here. He then yelled at me for making things "political" and that no one in their right mind would support not having mandatory gun registries.

My grand dad had a saying about the differences between people thinking you are an idiot and you opening your mouth and proving it.

Oh, and in case you are wondering, there is no doubt in my mind who the snowflake voted for last year.....

Sometimes getting the truth out seems to cause a lot more trouble than it's worth but SOMEBODY needs to get it out! Some people are just too stupid to ever listen or turn away from BS but you never know when some other person might glom onto the conversation and realize how right you were and how wrong the other person was. When good people don't speak out the truth ignorance and idiocy gets worse.........

Next time its walk time, tell them to go without you and enjoy themselves without you.