1) We actually forgot.
2) We haven't yet found an uninterrupted 2-hour block of time to get a good start on a major project, but hope to this weekend. Meanwhile, "I forgot" provokes a better response from most females than "quit nagging".
3) Don't really wanna do this project because it's a dumb idea, and we tried to tell you that in the first place, but you wouldn't listen. Now we're just hoping you'll forget about it eventually.
Hope that explains things.
Meanwhile, does anyone recognize that movie she mentioned where the new wife uses a dog-training manual to adjust her husband's behavior?
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My mother must have seen the movie because she once fried up a Gainesburger dogfood pattie, stuck in on a hamburger bun and fed it to my drunk stepfather.
Posted by: Sticks at March 20, 2006 07:11 PM (tC2QQ)
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There are a couple more reasons, like
4) Sit com dads are funny on TV. But, the characters are written by people who have no respect for their dads. Stop treating your husband like he's a sit com dad. Do it long enough, and he'll take the hint, and start behaving that way.
5) Women don't realize that men aren't much more complicated than puppies. For the most part, we only do what the women in our lives let us get away with.
Mull on those two for a bit, and we'll all start seeing progress on this front.
Posted by: the Humble Devildog at March 20, 2006 09:20 PM (TIYju)
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Get back to me on this once women remember to put gas in the car.
Posted by: Jim - PRS at March 20, 2006 09:26 PM (njBz/)
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I do all maintenance on my own car, fill my own car with gas etc. I never ask my husband to do 2 hour projects. I'll hire it out before I ask. Or do it myself. My husband can come and go as he pleases... I'm not his Mom.
Posted by: Bou at March 20, 2006 09:30 PM (iHxT3)
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Bou - that's why all the guys love you :-)
Posted by: Harvey at March 20, 2006 09:45 PM (L7a63)
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We actually do remember quite a lot of stuff. Many men can tell you important things like Don Mattingly's Batting Average in his rookie year (.343) and Dan Marino's career total yards (61,361) -- we just don't remember all the other, less important crap...
Posted by: Ogre at March 21, 2006 08:03 AM (/k+l4)
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That's what I'm getting at....
Ogre hit it on the head, so to speak.
I don't think men really have THAT BAD of a memory. They just choose to remember other things- like batting averages.
Trust me- my husband can remember ANYTHING about a computer, network, router, switch, hub, etc. and you only have to tell him once- because he can spit it all back at you six months from now without missing a word.
So then- why would he ask me the same question three times in one day?
Is it that he forgets what the answer is?
Or is it that he doesn't deem the answer important enough to remember?
(yeah yeah yeah, call me Devil's Advocate...)
Posted by: Rave at March 21, 2006 02:52 PM (Fir0Z)
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I think it is partly a priority thing and partly a time based thing. I tend to get asked to do things and generally it is "do this now please" - but that is inferred rather than being explicitly stated. My man brain reads the request as "this needs doing but sometime in the future".
If Sally says "can you do this now?" then I understand where the priority lies. At the risk of sounding sexist I will analyise the request and assign it a priority and, if needs be, explain why I am not doing it "right now" (DIY projects being a good example). Sometimes that 5 minute job (or so she thinks) will actually lead to more time spent and so we put it off until we have the requisite amount of time available.
Posted by: Alex at March 22, 2006 02:36 AM (vQk49)
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I heard a 'phrase' a long time ago, and it kind of stuck in my head. It's a good way for me to gage 'am I being anal about this?'
What's the phrase?
'Unhappiness occurs when your expectations do not meet reality.'
So- every time I start to get upset over something, I think, "Is *my* expectation of this really cause for anger?" Because the answer is usually 'no.'
I chalk it up to a difference in expectations/perceptions/reality and move on.
Posted by: Rave at March 23, 2006 08:53 AM (Fir0Z)
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