Stop talking unless spoke to.

Then you can be the one to simply say yes or no.

this way , that way , up here, over there, at the next corner.


is what I get when she wants me to drive but do not know where to go .

she never learned left , right , north , south.


but it's only been 36 years

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Originally posted by SpinZone:

I find the humor in the part where you think that sooner or later you'll learn.

It has only been 45 years (five year courtship and forty years married), so there's still time. I have hope for the future.

Ooooh yeah.

Been married 35 years and am still learning; probably won’t ever get it right.

Just this past Friday I made a comment about dinner and the chill only lifted this morning.

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Originally posted by bendable:
this way , that way , up here, over there, at the next corner.


is what I get when she wants me to drive but do not know where to go .

she never learned left , right , north , south.


but it's only been 36 years

Funny you would mention that. My wife is probably the only woman in San Diego who knows where the north side of the house is and what our fence line is. I love this woman.

Preach it brother...

I don't think the words

Yes
No
I don't know

Are in her vocabulary.

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Originally posted by cooger:

This is my favorite conversation. What do you want for dinner? It turns into a 20 discussion. She'll ask where I want to go and then shoot down every answer I give her and pick something else. I ask her why she even asked me if she knew what she wanted and bam, I'm the bad guy.

There's also a similar game we play where she tells me I have to pick since she picked last time. Again she shoots down every answer i give and picks something totally different. This also turns into me getting in trouble.

This. This is in a guidebook they get, or a secret class, or something.

This is a weekly-or-better occurrence. And yet, every time, I take the bait.

I hate it how my wife always waits until I'm in another room to ask me to mmmmmfffrhfghh rfffgrubbbfgght muurrrrrffffllle.

No words were spoken, but I'm still in it today:

Last night, met my wife for dinner at a steak house about 30 min from home. Almost immediately after we pulled out in our respective vehicles, I get a text saying "I need gas." Translation: pump my gas for me. No worries.

I pull in behind her at the gas station off the highway exit, and pump both her gas and mind at an adjacent pump. Mine finishes first, I button everything up just as hers finishes. I button hers up and pop the side of the SUV to let her know it's done. Get back in my truck.

I crank up and wait. No movement. Flicker my lights, no movement. Knew better than to honk at her, so pull around and up beside her. Apparently when she finally looked up from texting (my daughter, sitting beside her, clued her in that I was sitting there), my WTH look with hands held palms up was too much rude for her. So, she is in "required conversation only" mode today.

No. Way. To. Win.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
There was a thread in The Lounge about kidney stones. One post mentioned that an ingredient (potassium citrate) in Crystal Light lemonade was frequently prescribed as a kidney stone preventive med. SWMBO has had a couple of kidney stones, so when I read that, I mixed up a half-gallon jug of Crystal Light lemonade, then I stuck my head into the room where she was doing some paperwork.

The dialog:

Me: "Hey, do you want a glass of Crystal Light?"

Her: "Is there any?"

I suspect the "don't make any just for me" is silent. I've had women play martyr games like that with me.

I have no real complaints, but...

For 50 years, I am never told “dinner is ready”. Instead I’m asked “Are you ready for dinner?” To which my answer is yes, then waiting to be told dinner is ready....you can guess this never changes.

Also, dinner at a restaurant with friends: I have to remind my wife, usually more than once, to look at the menu before the waiter arrives, it doesn’t help. Waiter arrives, “just another minute” means apparently in waiter-speak “you’ve got 20 minutes before you have to go back to that table”.

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Originally posted by sjtill:
I have no real complaints, but...

For 50 years, I am never told “dinner is ready”. Instead I’m asked “Are you ready for dinner?” To which my answer is yes, then waiting to be told dinner is ready....you can guess this never changes.

Also, dinner at a restaurant with friends: I have to remind my wife, usually more than once, to look at the menu before the waiter arrives, it doesn’t help. Waiter arrives, “just another minute” means apparently in waiter-speak “you’ve got 20 minutes before you have to go back to that table”.

My wife must be reading the same notes. Applied in the grocery store, it looks like this: stand there and watch intently as each item is rung up. Upon being told the total, brief pause, then... "Oh..." and she THEN starts reaching down to the purse, rifles through a few compartments, pulls out keys, finds the wallet, unzips it, rifles through dividers, finds cash, finds loose change.....

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Originally posted by apprentice:
Stop talking unless spoke to.

Then you can be the one to simply say yes or no.

That's my preferred mode as I'm naturally a pretty quiet, non-talkative guy. Of course if I'm quiet for longer than about 5 minutes I get "WHY DON'T YOU EVER JUST TALK TO ME???" "OK, fine. What do you want to talk about?" "Never mind! Sometimes you're such as asshole!"

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Originally posted by ShneaSIG:
I hate it how my wife always waits until I'm in another room to ask me to mmmmmfffrhfghh rfffgrubbbfgght muurrrrrffffllle.

Oh god, yes. This. My wife is the queen of this.

And every time I have to ask her to repeat herself, she scoffs and claims I must be hard of hearing, even though she knows she's the one trying to talk to me from two rooms over, with the TV on, while facing away from me, and the dog is barking, and I'm focusing on something else at the moment.

Just because I don't have superhuman hearing doesn't make me deaf, woman!

I've repeatedly asked her to come to the same room and face me before trying to talk to me. But 10 years, and it hasn't changed.

It's my single biggest pet peeve with my wife.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:

10 years, and it hasn't changed.

Ten years? Hah! Wait until you've been married for a while.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:

10 years, and it hasn't changed.

Ten years? Hah! Wait until you've been married for a while.

No shit, right?

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Originally posted by ShneaSIG:
I hate it how my wife always waits until I'm in another room to ask me to mmmmmfffrhfghh rfffgrubbbfgght muurrrrrffffllle.

That’s about as good as my wife saying something to me while we are driving with the windows down and her looking out the window.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:

10 years, and it hasn't changed.

Ten years? Hah! Wait until you've been married for a while.

No shit, right?

Yeah . . . amateurs!

Yep, my wife is the same way, never a plain simple answer to a yes/no question.

When I am in a not so good mood, she never answers a question the way I asked it.
I asked if she took English in high school and college. She just gives me a dirty look.

It is frustrating.