How many times in my life have I heard, "Women, don't try--you'll never understand 'em!" as a punch line on a sitcom or advice from a friend? I don't think it's fair.
Here's something for the testosterone-driven gender to explain, because no matter how hard I try, I don't get it:
When one (male) has a day off from work, his spouse may have ideas of how that day should be spent.
Examples:
- There's leaves still needing raking from last Autumn.
- The oil needs changing in her car.
- The bathtub needs caulking before any more tiles work loose.
- Shelves still need putting up.
- His side of the bedroom needs sorting.
- There's things of his still sitting in the dining room from two weeks ago.
- The garage needs to be put in order since everything was haphazardly thrown in there with the whirlwind move.
- In general, our garden looks like we're the Beverly Hillbillies--just arrived. Bikes are scattered everywhere, wagons, balls, logs rejected when fires were burning last month, BBQ grill never put away and patio chairs strewn all over where kids have used them for boundary markers. All we need out there now is a toilet.
So why...
Why does he choose to go into town to buy supplies and then spend the rest of his afternoon working on a radiator that has never worked (and we don't need because it is in a small room we don't use)?
On a similar note,
I do think the fact that Sexy Guy has gone all Rambo on the mouse population (mostly because they ate up his very expensive internal-frame backpack for the MREs stored in it) is useful, but I wonder if he's losing touch. He reports in daily with how many raisins were eaten without springing the trap, takes great interest in mouse poo and how fresh it is... Have you seen the movie Mouse Trap? The minute Hubby tastes one of those poos, I'm taking him in.
The only saving grace to his undecipherable choice of ways to spend a day off is that Miss Ky is trailing him everywhere he goes, speaking a mile a minute.
That's justice.
Note: Exactly the same time as I hit "publish post", he came in to say, "I'm going to go out and do your oil in a little bit". Do you think he's psychic?
I was wondering this same thing twoo days ago. I am currently working 9 to 5; the hubby? 4 to 9. I asked if he could pick some meat to thaw, so I could make dinner when I came home.
ReplyDeleteInstead, he spent all day (I assume) in the man cave, playing computer games.
The Boy and I didn't eat until 7 (shepherd's pie).
Yesterday, he thaws out ground beef...in fact, the ONLY meat he does put out to thaw is ground beef.
If I come home today, and ground beef is waiting for me, I might just get a sub for The Boy and I, and then create the most God-awful meal for the hubby to eat when he returns at 9:30.
It must be a man thing. At our last house we had a mouse problem and my hubby was OBSSESSED with checking the traps. All the time. He would talk about it constantly too. But, he didn't taste the poo. At least he never TOLD me he did. ;)
ReplyDeleteHope he actually gets to the oil now. ;)
Have a wonderful weekend!
Oh my, I hear you on this one. I have a "day off," and I am busy all day long doing a bunch of little things that don't get done ordinarily. My hubby has a day off, and he treats it as if it really IS a day off. In other words, he watches movies, reads, takes a nap, hangs out with his friends, or does whatever else he wants to do in spite of the fact that there is a whole list of things that need doing (very similar to your hubby's list). At least your hubby was doing something productive by working on the radiator (even if it is low priority) and trying to rid the house of rodents.
ReplyDeleteYour definition of "justice" made me laugh by the way. :D
Hope you have a good weekend!
Psychic or not, he had the bright idea to do it just when you were ready for him to. Call it intuition or whatever. I call it transference of thoughts, lol. Wow, if we could just channel that, huh?
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear that Miss Ky is giving him *the works*. He needs to know what you're going through when he's gone. However, I don't think that you should know everything he's doing when deployed. Yikes!
Little girls need time with their fathers for many reasons & following them around talking is one of the biggies!
LOL. At least Miss Ky is doing her job properly.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you have just discovered some secret method to get him to do what you want!!
ReplyDeleteI hear ya. Mine thinks a day off means a day off. You know, he does whatever he wants. My days off are days off to get something done. I am still trying to figure out how I agreed to this arrangement. (In his defense, it is not always this way. Just more often than I like.)
ReplyDeleteYou have got through to him on one issue, which is a result as men do not multi-task!
ReplyDeleteI think he has a very fast modem.
ReplyDeleteMy husband typically looks at the clutter which is our home and then goes to sort the pencil drawer. After 16 years, he still does not understand why I don't reward him for that effort.
Men...they're the same everywhere. Except, I'm not sure my oil would have gotten done.
ReplyDeleteMy question is why, when I am freaking out about getting out of the house on time so we won't be late AGAIN to some function or other, Hubs decides that it's a good idea to start a major project 15 minutes before we need to leave.
ReplyDelete*sigh*
He could feel it. He could feel you writing and stewing. Be grateful he's tackling the mice. Mine heads to the Man Cave to play Guitar Hero.
ReplyDeleteThis is so strange, but my list of things to get done looks VERY similar to yours!
ReplyDeletebut did he actually go out and do your oil?
ReplyDelete;)
LOL. I love this post.
ReplyDeleteFor me, it was last Monday. I'm hobbling around the house with a sprained foot, and he calls me up to see if I need him home to help me out. SO, he comes home and guess who still ends up doing the laundry, changing dirty diapers, and getting dinner ready?
What did he do with his afternoon off? He went to the electronics store to purchase an item he'd been drooling over. Gosh honey! Thanks for all the help!
I am laughing SO hard.
ReplyDeleteNo, he's not psychic. Something in his brain just clicked... "I know she needs her oil changed. If I don't do that, she'll blog about me."