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Published on February 15, 2008 By adnauseam In Blogging
My wife (God bless her), intrigues me with some of her housekeeping habits. I tend to ignore most but she is a hoarder, "destroyer " of appliances, and, at times, a threat to the household.

So I'll set the scenes and Joeuser wives can have a go at their husbands in response!

Why do wives:

Try to stuff 15kg of washing into a 7 kg washer and complain that the machine is producing dirty clothes and trying to bounce itself all over the laundry room?

Try to soften butter in a microwave in its foil pack and run like hell when the machine starts sparking to the point of blowing up?

Hoard so much food in their cupboards that there is enough to feed Zimbabwe for a month? Are they expecting World War 3?

Kick their computer cases when there is a glitch?

Block the ducts in the microwave with ten packets of Newman's popcorn on top and expect it to work properly?

Leave potatoes or carrots burning away on the gas stove and disappear into a mesmerising novel?

Blame husbands for everything that doesn't work and which they have destroyed?

Leave cloths on the stove next to the burners and wonder why a fire results?

Try to use vacuum cleaners when the bag was full two weeks ago?

Fill every cupboard with junk and shake their heads when you can't find your shoes?

OK, ladies , your turn!




Comments
on Feb 15, 2008

Try to stuff 15kg of washing into a 7 kg washer and complain that the machine is producing dirty clothes and trying to bounce itself all over the laundry room?

Kilograms?...What are these kilograms you speak of?

 

I'm surprised you have the courage to question these actions...if we don't hear from you then we know you have met the same fate as the appliances of your household.

~Zoo

on Feb 15, 2008
...if we don't hear from you then we know you have met the same fate as the appliances of your household


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Why? Because she has you around and you know you love it when your woman is so helpless she runs to you for everything!! But seriously, sometimes we get forgetful because there's a cazillion of things to do, or doing and then we have to remember all the details? We have to leave something for you guys to do, right?! !
on Feb 15, 2008
okay okay, okay....I'll fess up to three of these...

I do buy lots of groceries....I'm a stocker and proud of it. I can't pass up a good sale.

I do cram the washer, yep, it saves water and electricity.....I just add a bit more detergent and I'm good.

And on occasion I do burn the carrots. I don't know why but something in carrots makes the water disappear faster than any other vegetable.
on Feb 16, 2008
What do the husbands say? Looks like I'm the fall guy here!

Kg is all we use on this side of the World--you mean your'e still using pounds?
on Feb 16, 2008
I'm a wife, and I don't do any of those things.

Perhaps you should ask why YOUR wife does it.
on Feb 16, 2008
you mean your'e still using pounds?


And Feet and Inches! Yep, America never went metric - at least not officially!
on Feb 16, 2008
Kg is all we use on this side of the World--you mean your'e still using pounds?


Yep, America's still on the good ol' "standard" system. Metric seems to scare us for some reason.

Though I'm decently versed in it...science class does that to you.

Metric is the more sensible choice, but what can I say? We are a stubborn folk.

~Zoo
on Feb 17, 2008

What do the husbands say? Looks like I'm the fall guy here!

I cant say every one my wife does, but enough of them hit home.  Especially the Scape goat one!