Silly things your spouse does
Here's one that had me pissing my pants laughing last night.
Last night as I was putting the finishing touches on dinner, the phone rang and it was Daryl wanting to just let me know that he was at the train station waiting for me to pick him up. It was at this point in the conversation that I felt it imperitive to remind him that he'd driven himself to the train station that morning. D'oh!
What's the funniest but dopiest thing your spouse has ever done?
Not packing the tent poles on our hiking/camping trip to the Red River Gorge in KY, many years ago. Here we were, a good 2 hours' hike away from the parking lot, waaaay uphill at the peak, where we chose to camp. Oops. And oh my gosh, did it ever rain that night. We tried to rig that tent up with branches, hair ties, shoelaces and prayers and it was quite a sight!
But I don't hold it against him. Though we passed the night in soggy cold misery, it was a sort of bonding experience, something we'll never forget, something to talk about for years. See? It's been about 14 years now, and I still remember. ;)
But hey, I've done TONS of dopey things too. I don't think my hubby could every nail down the dopiest for a post like this. Too many to choose from.
Heehee, when my ex had "quit" smoking (I didn't smoke full time at that time) by his choice, he kept disappearing out the back of the house. I finally said "What, you got a woman out there?" and he sheepishly admitted he'd been smoking. It was really cute. I was like "are you 12?" I still giggle when I remember the look on his face. He is a terrible liar, even little white lies!
edit: what I meant was he was terrible AT little white lies. He wasn't a liar. He just didn't have it in him.
My beloved will NEVER see this thread!
Why is that Brian? would she have something to contribute perhaps? ;)
You should just tell us all about it. That way it can never be used against you.
We won't laugh.
Well I can't say that Iwon't laugh, but you probably won't know I'm laughing.
No way. My funny shit stays private. Besides, I know you people and how long you remember things.
Lately my wife worries that every else in the family has completed simple tasks in their life. For example, she always asks things like, did you lock the car, as we walk into the store; did you shut the garage; did you give the dogs water before we left; did you turn off the coffee maker; did you set your alarm. I don't know if she thinks I am getting dementia or if she is getting it. Like stop supervising me already. When I want you to take over I'll ask you to tie me up.
It's because your second kid just went off to college, Merc. She's ramping up on the empty nest syndrome. Just you wait until the third one goes.
I think you may be right.
the beest is never silly. however, he once fell asleep on the toilet and woke up when he fell off, which had me lmfao :D
I think falling asleep on the toilet qualifies as silly.
Here's one that had me pissing my pants laughing last night.
Last night as I was putting the finishing touches on dinner, the phone rang and it was Daryl wanting to just let me know that he was at the train station waiting for me to pick him up. It was at this point in the conversation that I felt it imperitive to remind him that he'd driven himself to the train station that morning. D'oh!
What's the funniest but dopiest thing your spouse has ever done?
My darling husband just did the very same... well... not the train station, but he called my cell and asked if I'd left the house yet. I wondered where exactly he thought I'd be without the car... without the car seats... after all he took the car to work this morning.
Flint is always doing something silly... is a funny man... funny funny funny man...
I often worry that people around us think we're just total spazzes... then it occurs to me that it is probably the case... we probably are
Mine tried to call me from work on my cell phone...which was in his pocket. When he heard the cell phone ringing he hung up the work phone, thinking it was I, calling from my work phone...when he answered the cell, he was frustrated to find that I had already given up and hung up (except that it was he who had hung up on himself.)
lol...nice one case.
I have another car incident to add to my husbands list.
This morning he pulled into the corner store to pick up a paper to read on the train on the way to work as per usual. He parked next to a white car.
When he came out of the shop, he got into a white car - which happened to be parked next to our white car - by mistake. Then he got his legs stuck under the steering wheel because the other white car was driven by a much shorter woman. Apparently the owner of the car just about pissed herself laughing when he explained what he was doing in her car. I did the same when he called me a short while ago to tell me.
Awesome, Ali. I often worry I might do that, myself (get into the wrong car.)
My previous car was a 2000 Silver Taurus SEL. There are about a billion of those things around. I seriously can't count how many times I stood in front of someone else's going:
::click::
::click click::
::CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK::
"Shit. The battery must have died in the fob" as I'm hitting the unlock button and nothing is happening.
Light blue Honda CRV's are getting pretty popular, too. (sigh)
One of my favorite Reader's Digest reader submittal jokes was about a guy telling how he let his big dogs ride in the back of his truck to the store. He very sternly told them to 'STAY.' (My brother's Golden would do just that.) He came out of the store and they were, indeed, in the back of a truck...the WRONG truck.
That story cracks me up when I think about those big goofy dogs, probably thinking "we fooled him, we saw him coming and we got back in the truck."
When we first started seeing each other I had a cat that was more like an angry raccoon to everyone but me. Big Siamese mix that was possessive so when she saw me lying on the floor, arms behind my head talking to That Man, she climbed onto my stomach and glared at him. I whined about the cat weighing so much, and continued talking, but he thought he'd help get her off me. Being unfamiliar with cats but very eager to help, he made big clawed hands and HISSSSSed at the cat. It scared her off all right - and she came this//close to disemboweling me with her claws, too. It's OK because the wounds are all healed and I get a lot of mileage from the story.
that's funny. it reminds me of a time years ago when i was living alone. I had a cat and a small sheltie. they were best friends and they both slept on my bed, with the cat usually waiting til I was asleep before curling up on me and the dog near her.
One night I was sound asleep right up until:
THUMP!
YELP!
HISS!
BARK! BARK! BARK!
HISS!
SHIT!
The dog fell off the bed scaring himself. That scared the cat who had been asleep curled up on my arm. She jumped straight in the air clawing anything she could reach. Then they were both scaring eachother. By the time I got up and turned on the light I had blood running down my arm from a 3 inch cut across my bicep and minor scratches on my head, the dog was backed into a corner with his fur up barking, and the cat was perched on top of the shelves hissing.
Twelve years later it is still the most noticeable scar on my body.
Mine took the glass shower door, including tracks, off to clean in a house we rented once, then put them back on backwards, so water ran all over the floor the first time the shower was used.
I think falling asleep on the toilet qualifies as silly.
[COLOR="LemonChiffon"]I think so too.... ;)[/COLOR]
the beest is never silly. however, he once fell asleep on the toilet and woke up when he fell off, which had me lmfao :D
When I was pregnant, I would get soooooooo tired in the afternoon. I would literally just hit a wall and could not function. I would usually put my head down on my desk and take a short nap over lunch break.
In the bathroom stall one day that was particularly bad I thought "I'll just lean here against the toilet paper thingie for
juuuuuuust a minute and rest my eyes. I fell dead asleep and woke up when I lost my balance. I was there long enough for my legs to go numb. . .
I was lucky I didn't actually fall off.
My wife likes to fall asleep sitting up and mouth-breathe, sometimes snoring into the bargain.
Last Sunday, a friend and I rented a plane and flew to Ocean City in NJ to let her experience the Boardwalk and the horror that is a Jersey beach. As we are droning along (if you've ever flown in a Cessna, you know how noisy they tend to be), he and I are pointing things out to her as well as to each other (other traffic).
I pull off my headset when she fails to respond to a question and look back to check on her and sure enough, sound asleep, head back, mouth open and snoring to beat the band.
I tried to bribe John to do a STEEP turn about a point but he refused, citing traffic (it was busy that day) and fears that shifting her could upset the plane's trim.
He's not as much fun as he claims!
and fears that shifting her could upset the plane's trim.
I hope you didn't share that with Mrs. R.
yup...told her to sit still!
She was fully aware that her weight brought the plane close to maximum gross weight (we left out a few gallons of gas to get under at the launch) and had to sit in the back to balance it out. Moving also caused her some vertigo so she had another reason to stay put.
All in all, we had fun and now she's addicted to fries and malt vinegar with Old Bay on top. :)