I knew it was coming...........

Goose · May 2, 2014

The time of year has arrived when my job interferes with my wife's plans for yard work projects. She's retired, I'm not.

Just because I work out of a home office and set my own schedule, she thinks I can drop everything at any time and help her in the yard. I'm in the middle of making phone calls and setting appointments, and she asks if I can go get some gas for the lawn mower. I told her the way we go through money around this place, someone has to hustle and make some.

My rant for the day.

JRSutton · May 2, 2014

I'm with ya there.

When you work from home, everybody assumes you're unemployed.

Even when they know better - they still think you're unemployed.

mkirsch · May 2, 2014

aaaaaaaaaaaand Goose is now single

paul · May 2, 2014

The Inlaws, whom it get along with very well and are nice people, don't have a farming background.

Any time they need help or a pickup or so e such, it is the first nice day after a long period of rain, or they start a shingling job October 3rd after talking about it all summer, or....

They just don't have a concept that I need to work double time in May and October, and that the pickup and trailers are very very busy and loaded here in May.....

Paul

JerryS · May 2, 2014

Over my long life I've pretty much worked alone on my projects. However, I have observed that the women in my life have almost always seen it necessary to include me in their projects.

Tom in TN · May 2, 2014

I'm now retired from a big company that I worked for. At a point some years ago, they decided that most of their employees needed to set up home offices and work from home. I tried it for a few months but had so many interruptions that I finally moved back into the company's office and worked out of the office for a few years until I retired.

Working from home works well for some people, but not for me.

Tom in TN

ShadetreeRet · May 2, 2014

My wife was always saying, "WE need to do this," or I want to do that," trouble is, WE and I were to be interpreted as one three letter word spelled "YOU"!

Goose · May 2, 2014

I hear ya!

Whenever my wife says "we" need to do something, she obviously intends for me to do it.

Goose · May 2, 2014

When I started working from a home office 8 years ago, my wife was working full time elsewhere, so I had the house to myself during the day. I could plan my office time and field time however was the most efficient.

Things started to fall apart when she retired last summer.

IH2444 · May 2, 2014

Strange how we are all alone on our projects but have mandatory participation in the wife units projects.

jennifer408 · May 2, 2014

(quoted from post at 11:16:03 05/02/14) I hear ya!

Whenever my wife says "we" need to do something, she obviously intends for me to do it.

well that's why we keep you around, we need somebody to do the grunt work.

IH2444 · May 2, 2014

(quoted from post at 15:03:35 05/02/14)

(quoted from post at 11:16:03 05/02/14) I hear ya!

Whenever my wife says "we" need to do something, she obviously intends for me to do it.

Click to expand...

well that's why we keep you around, we need somebody to do the grunt work.

An honest woman.

Billy NY · May 2, 2014

That's the leverage at work, when it comes down to it, unless there's a real problem, they know you are not likely to do much about it, well 'cept vent here LOL ! And its better here than anywhere else, as long as she does not read the forums here LOL !

J.Wondergem · May 2, 2014

So now leave Goose alone. He has a lot of work to do, moving all his equipment to the dog house.

Dick2 · May 2, 2014

I came home the other day and my wife said: "We have a big problem!" I knew that meant that I had a problem to fix.

It turned out that she had opened a door on each end of the house and a gust of wind blew in and slammed the back door closed and it was locked and would not unlock or open. She said that the gate to the back yard was locked on the inside where we could not reach the lock.

I took a step stool outside, reached over the gate and unlocked the padlock. Unlocked the security door, but could not turn the knob on the inside door. Went inside and unscrewed the knob there. The latch was jammed and would not move. It took a bit of prying to get the latch to move. Then I lubed the latch and put the knob back in the door - works just fine now.

My wife is totally non-mechanical and she marvels that I can fix things fast that she thinks are a major problem.

bison · May 2, 2014

(quoted from post at 10:37:26 05/02/14) Over my long life I've pretty much worked alone on my projects. However, I have observed that the women in my life have almost always seen it necessary to include me in their projects.

hat he says.^^^.

Damm wimmen
I just hate the projects that my wife plans but i end up doing.
We have a nice black leather reclining chair with a black steel frame and matching foot stool
My wife wanted something different and asked me to spray paint the frame orange so it would match the curtains, i said don't do it it is gonna look stupid but wife did not agree of cause,....no no no..please do it it will look so nice...otherwise i'm gonna buy a new chair :evil:

Well i took the chair apart and $20 worth of rattle cans worth and 3 coats and a couple days later the frame was orange( she bought the paint)
I put the damm thing back together and put it back in the living room.
Wife's reaction,......i HATE it.
TOLD YOU SO... DIDN"T I....now WHAT!

Shoulda let her buy other chair right of the bat, would've saved me the trouble.:roll:

Some days i wish i was a nnalert :twisted:

Anonymous-0 · May 2, 2014

And then remember that "nothing is impossible for the person that doesn't have to do it themselves".
This seems to be practised equally well by both wives and bosses.

Areo

IH2444 · May 2, 2014

You just required more training exercises so she could buy the other chair like she wanted in the first place.

Resistance is futile you will be assimilated.

Ron Muhlenkamp · May 2, 2014

My friend Dan says that when he retired, he became a "somebody". When he hears "somebody needs to do this" or "somebody needs to fix that", That's him.

Rollie NE PA · May 2, 2014

My wife uses the same line as yours. The we thing always involves money, lots of money.
I need a new car, I need the wall to wall carpeting replaced, why don't you build me this or that and the list goes on.

But I still love her!

NEKS · May 2, 2014

That's why I have something to do till dark every night. I like Areo's comment.

howdy1960 · May 3, 2014

"WE need to fix garage roof cause the saddles are getting wet!"... a week later she's pi$$ed off cause it took ME that long to do it since I also had to go to work to pay for the supplies while her pay got turned into manner (which "we" [ME] had to spend 2 hours each day picking up at the same time as fixing roof)

Kent Petersen · May 3, 2014

you guys better count your blessings i lost my wife of 47 years 2 years ago i sure i had her here to nag me

Billy NY · May 3, 2014

I've made the mistake of doing that the wind slammed a few interior doors, and slammed them hard enough to take the parting stop or whats on the jamb off and run the nails across the door's edge, leaving a gouge ! Jammed too, have to carefully get them unwedged, some wood glue, wood filler, a few finish nails, punch and some stain, clear coat, darned wind LOL !!!

greygoat · May 3, 2014

I"ve been retired for 10 years, my wife for 1-1/2
Having her around the house drives me crazy. It interferes with my nap time. When she"s bored,
she vacuums, sometimes several times a day. It"s
driving me nuts !!!!!!!!!

Pitch · May 3, 2014

I have been retired for 2 years now. Wife retired six weeks ago. Monday morning I start a new job!

T in NE · May 4, 2014

That's one thing I don't get. People plan everything for May, July, and September/October. In western Nebraska. When 1/3 of the population is so busy that a cold can of spaghetti-o's and a hot bed sound good when they stumble thorough the door at night.

js305 · May 4, 2014

All of this is really interesting. If I may, I'll ramble a little.

My parents were married for 52 years before my dad passed away. He always worked long hours as was not home during many daylight hours, especially in my younger years. He retired at about age 68 but worked part time sacking groceries at a local store for a couple of years. After that he was home 24/7. I heard my mother telling some friends one time that she used to wonder how someone could be married for 40 plus years and all at once get a divorce. After my dad was under foot for a couple years she stated that she understood it now.

Now as for my marriage, I have the feeling that my wife and I are pretty comfortable with one another. We have both been married before and divorced (each of us was the "injured party" in the previous marriage). We got married in 1979 and never argue about anything. Life is good to us, we are both in good health and working. We have a few common interests and do some things together. She is really good about not complaining if I want to stay up all night at the firehouse working on one of the trucks (I'm a member of a volunteer fire dept). I don't chase around drinking and she doesn't either.

I guess what I'm trying to say is we both understand the other's needs and try to play nice with each other. We have seen and experienced the results of bickering and have made the decision to avoid that. Do we never get upset at the other? Sure! I go to my shop and she looks at ads in magazines. Or sometimes she calls her sister and listens to her complaints about her husband. We just don't feel like we have time to waste fussing at each other.

Pops1532 · May 4, 2014

I've figured out that when my wife "asks" me to do something when I have time, it really means drop what you're doing and do this for me NOW!
It used to upset me but then I thought about how hard she works and all the stuff she does for me so I don't complain too much when she "asks" me to do something for her.

I knew it was coming...........

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