GF's, Wives, In-laws & the things they do that make you go what the hell ?

[JBH3]

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Oh hell where I live in Vermont, nobody locks anything at all. My better half would throw a fit if I locked a door. She would say we live out in a small country town, this isn't chicago.

I mean seriously car doors unlock, windows, everything be unlocked out here. Don't feel bad Buck I too was banned from doing laundry because I like to hang everything up LMAO.

That's so dumb. My parents do the same thing at their house. A few times when I was still in the Marine Corps and would drive 3 hours from Quantico to Chesapeake to visit the door would be unlocked and my mom would be alone in the house...I snuck right up on her everytime, and had I been an intruder she would've not known what hit her.

My wife and mother-in law talk on the phone about 50 times a day. Any idea pops into their head and they have to let each other know. Her mother will call at 5:00 EVERY night. "What are you doing?" THE SAME THING WE DO EVERY DAY AT 5 O'CLOCK. WE ARE EATING DINNER!

My wife and mother-in-law AND her two sisters talk about 5 times a week (not each, total), and they ALWAYS call during dinner...

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My wife feels it her duty to iron our 2 yr olds clothes. I tell her this is pointless, he's two, within 5 minutes he will have colored on himself, rolled around in the dirt, purposely spit water on himself (this is a phase we're going through right now lol), or just found some way to dirty himself up.

She'll complain that she has no time to do anything, meanwhile she's taking an hour or two to iron his clothes because she wants him to look good. ... what a waste of time.

[sb24]

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Hey whats wrong with a between the legs pillow?

I may really contribute to this thread shortly. I am about 2 weeks away from moving out of my apartment with my GF. The things she has done are so numerous Im not sure I can list them off. Reading these stories has already made me feel better.

[stewaat]

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Just a couple things but nothing major.

She asks me "Does that bother you when I...(activity)" often. My response is often..."No but when it does when you ask me if it bothers me lol"

She asks many hypothetical questions about racy subjects...like if I had a kid who wanted to be gay or something like that. Way too serious of questions lol

She takes a long time to get ready...but I think that's just what women do

She can't cook and freaks out over cooking

Nothing to lose sleep over

[Stumbleweed]

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Oh hell where I live in Vermont, nobody locks anything at all. My better half would throw a fit if I locked a door. She would say we live out in a small country town, this isn't chicago.

I mean seriously car doors unlock, windows, everything be unlocked out here. Don't feel bad Buck I too was banned from doing laundry because I like to hang everything up LMAO.

Note to self: go on a home and car burglary spree in Vermont.

[Jonesy]

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The folding / laundry thing i can really relate to. I get home from work a little early and think i'll get in and get some of the washing done so my wife doesn't have to do it all when she gets home' (we both work and my daughter goes to daycare during the week) trying to be nice. But WRONG it turns out i have to hang every article of clothing at a certain angle with a certain combination of pegs or else somehow the rules of evaporation won't apply and the clothes won't dry. Then she complains i don't do enough of the housework. :/

The deal was that i do all the outside stuff like mowing, washing the cars etc, she would do the washing / ironing and we share the cooking / washing up.

She also does the calling her sister 50 times a day thing to talk about twilight or other random crap. It would drive me crazy but they seem to have to tell each other every little thing that happens every day. What makes it even worse is that they work together (both accountants) so they spend all day together then they have to chat at night as well!?

I love my wife wholeheartedly but there are def times when I think back fondly remembering the good ol' days of being a single guy.

[deaduck]

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One of my wife's goofier quirks is she doesn't trust anybody giving her directions while driving.

I'm talking like even when giving somebody a ride to their OWN house...dude will say take a right here...She looks at it and drives past it...staring down the turn like it was a trap waiting to be sprung.

Drives all my buddy's crazy but I mainly just let her work it out on her own. She can't ever explain why she does it either. She just can't do it.

She recently got a GPS...it spends most of it's time recalculating.

If she know the route she's fine...anything else...she just won't follow directions.

[~LiverpoolRed~]

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She recently got a GPS...it spends most of it's time recalculating.

Too funny!

[DubTrey1]

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In reading some of this, I almost wonder how we can all be married to the same women at the same time... LOL!

[~LiverpoolRed~]

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Do any of your wives go crazy when there is a sale on? I'll be at home and my wife will call and say. "They have our shampoo on sale, how many bottles should I get?' No matter what number I tell her she'll multiply it by like 8.

We have enough dishwasher tabs to do a load of dishes every day for about 3 years. Ridiculous.

And don't even get me started on coupons. My wife is OBSESSED with them. Sure I love to save money, who doesn't. I just don't want to spend 15 minutes down each aisle in the grocery store so you can rifle through your heap of coupons to save 15 cents on wax beans. And she takes way too many coupons. Alot of the time she takes the entire thing, nearly rips the bracket of the shelving. We'd have to buy a box of fish every week for 52 straight weeks to use up these coupons before they expire. Utter madness! LOL!

[Sportsforever]

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In reading some of this, I almost wonder how we can all be married to the same women at the same time... LOL!

Reminds me of the two guys who were playing golf and had a slow group in front of them. All day long they had to wait at the tee box while these two women took forever on the fairway/green. Finally, one of they guys had enough and decided to go say something. He stomped up to the green on a Par 3, but before he even got there he turned around and came back. "What's going on?" the other guy asked. "I can't go up there...as I got closer I saw that it was my wife AND my mistress playing golf together!" The other guy decides he'll be the one to tell them to move it along so he heads up to the green, but he only makes it halfway before he turns around. As he comes back he says, "Well, it sure is a small world...my wife is playing with MY mistress!"

[Koolie G]

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[QUOTE=Jonesy;2041179421] But WRONG it turns out i have to hang every article of clothing at a certain angle with a certain combination of pegs or else somehow the rules of evaporation won't apply and the clothes won't dry. Then she complains i don't do enough of the housework. :/ [QUOTE]

I get this ALL THE TIME. I've been banned from doing laundry because I just put everything in at once. That is how I did it when I was single, but I do know to seperate colors and whites. However that is not good enough apparently. I'm fine with not doing laundry, but I shouldn't get yelled at for not doing it when SHE has told me not to do it. Also, I can't hang anything on wire hangars, only plastic. She is like a wire hanger Nazi out to rid the earth of wire hangars.

Then I get the complaint about not doing enough housework, but when I do it I've done it wrong, no matter how I did it. She wants me to vacuum the floors, cool. But when I finish she is like "why did you go over the registers, you know that just chips off the paint." WTH. It doesn't chip off the paint, she just needs something to complain about. I can't tell you how many things she assumes that I know how to do that I have no idea. So I ask a question to make sure I'm doing something right, like using a particular cleaner and rag on the furniture. You'd think I just asked her how I am suppossed to know how to breathe, or how to take a shower. I'm asking because I don't want to mess up the furniture and do it the way she wants, but then she makes me think I'm an idiot because I don't know and just says she will do it before I mess it up. So then she is mad she has to do it and mad that I didn't know how. Lose-lose.

Other than that, she is great.

[stewaat]

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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JBH3]

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The folding / laundry thing i can really relate to. I get home from work a little early and think i'll get in and get some of the washing done so my wife doesn't have to do it all when she gets home' (we both work and my daughter goes to daycare during the week) trying to be nice. But WRONG it turns out i have to hang every article of clothing at a certain angle with a certain combination of pegs or else somehow the rules of evaporation won't apply and the clothes won't dry. Then she complains i don't do enough of the housework. :/

I do a lot of laundry because unfortunately the units are in the basement, my man cave, so of course I have no excuse to not wash/dry/fold. I've used the "I didn't get your outfit in the dryer babe because I was in an intense fire fight in MW2" to no avail; apparently she cares nothing about me getting shot at in a videogame .

My man cave is really cool, there's bras hanging on doors, clothing articles hanging from a dry rack...

What's the worst though is when I fold a humongous load of my wife's clothes, lug it upstairs for, and all she has to do is put it away. However, it sits there a day, two days, three days, and then our 2 yr olds nature of destroying things sees an opportunity to make chaos...turning over the laundry basket and throwing clean/folded laundry all over the master BR.

There's nothing like taking half an hour to fold clothes, and then watching a 2 yr old wreak havoc of those folded clothes in 60 seconds tops...making the time you spent doing that in vain. Ugh.

In reading some of this, I almost wonder how we can all be married to the same women at the same time... LOL!

[Stumbleweed]

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Other than that, she is great.

Bahahaha... some of the replies in this thread are great.

[techhokies]

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I used to complain about her calling her sister 50 times a day to talk about any and everything until her sister went on a vacation for a month. Then I became her sister, almost every single phone call would start with a "hey" and a brief pause because she did not actually have anything to say, but just wanted to call me up. Then she would start talking about some mundane stuff that's going on with her. I mean why do I really care if the same commercial is on two different radio stations at the same time, if Julie is wearing the same ugly top from two days ago but w/ a sweater on top this time, or what we want to eat three days from today so she can start preparing.