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Things the make the WIFE madd!!!!

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JD Seller

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Well I was reading the post below about cleaning an oil soaked clutch. It got me to thinking about using the wife's oven to bake clutch facing on a hub. I had a Bolens lawn mower for years. It had a shaft driven mower deck and a disk clutch to engage the mower deck. The new facing came with some type of glue on them. You clean the hub up and clamped the new facing to it. You then had to heat it up to like 300-400 degrees for so long. I cleaned the hub up ( Not good enough LOL) and put it in the oven. I went back to the shop. All was well until the wife opened the oven door to see what was in there. There was still some oil/grease left inside the hub. It ran out on the cookie sheet and was smoldering. When she opened the door the fresh air ignited the fumes/smoke. It really smelt the house up. The biggest thing that happened was it kind of messed up her hair do when the fire flashed out the oven door. I about got divorced out of that deal. It did cost me a new hair do and outfit. The hair do made sense but I did not see her outfit getting damaged. LOL ( Figured out that a new outfit was cheaper than a divorce LOL)

The next biggest EVENT!!! Was me thawing out a half dead/frozen bull calf out in the bath tub. Heck he enjoyed it. LOL Worked real well too. Wife not so well. LOL ------ the cats off too. LOL

I guess she has mellowed out. She just shakes her head and walks off now. Usually goes shopping. LOL
 
After 38 years,I don't even know if I could make her mad anymore. Disgusted,disappointed,yes,mad,she's been beyond that for so long now.
 
what makes mine mad is saying darn cats should be in barn with the cows.
i asked (big mistake) i don't bring cows in the house do i? i thought i was going to sleeping in hay mow with the coons.
 
she didnt much care for the 40 ft ladder pictures I posted last week. She was mad,,cant really blame her. I started fixing the barn,was too proud to say I was scared up there,,,but,,, I wont do it again,,,lol
 
The calf in the bathtub story reminds me of something I did in 1998.

I came across a deal on day old Holsteins. $5 each. So I bought all 5. Got them home a put up in the barn. The next day they got scours. I was giving them medication for scours. That night a cold front came in and the temperature was to get down into the single digits. I worried about the calves being weak and freezing to death so I brought them in a put them in my bathroom and shut the door.

The next morning I got up to shower and go to work. I opened the bathroom door and there before me were 5 deadcalves laing on the floor in about 1 or 2 inches of diarrhea. I just shut the door and went to work.

My son was around 14 at the time. I had to be at work at 6 a.m. so I was always gone before he even got up to go to school. That evening, when I got back home from work, I asked him what he thought when he opened the bathroom door earlier that morning. He replied that he had taken a shower that morning. I asked him how he avoided stepping in the floor covered with diarrhea? His reply..."I just stepped on each calf to get to the shower!". Kinda like stepping stones. LOL

I still kid him about that.
 
Larry I made the Daughter-in-law mad this morning. You might have read about the Grand Daughters wanting to repel off the grain leg yesterday. Well it really is too cluttered up to be safe. Now the silo over the ground hay pile is a blast!!! So guess what. Myself and the three Grand Daughters rope repelled off it right after chores this morning. LOL The silo is only ninety feet and the hay was just ground Friday so that pile is 20 feet or more. You could just about jump in it and not get hurt too bad.

I only went once to refresh them on how to do it safely. They must have gone up 5-6 times each. Their hair was a real mess with the ground hay and all. LOL My son called and was mad he did not get to go too. The Daughter-in-law was mad that I was setting a bad example for the girls. I told her I HOPE so. LOL
 
JDSeller- I used to climb and rappel a lot. Have you ever done a 'Australian rappel'? My favorite way!
 
HaHA, never tried parts in the oven -- got into enough trouble cleaning a carburetor in the sink - yeah - got caught. A calf in the bathtub was reason enough to justify the purchase of a calf warmer !! A bathtub full of warm water sure works better. That event occurred at my daughters house, I was still in trouble- guilt by association. Or maybe she was mad at everyone. Telling her how much the calf was worth did not seem to help.
 
Is that where you face down????? If it is I have not. I don't like seeing the ground coming. LOL
 
That and your "swiss seat" using a short piece of rope and a D link. Funny you mentioned "Australian", that was kind of fun once you got used to it. Then there's rappelling from a Bell UH1, I think I liked my feet touching something a whole lot better !
 
I suggested the new flooring for the kitchen should look like bits of silage and haylage mixed with some straw and hay with the odd brown spot in it....that was to prevent future ire, but she still finds ways to remind me that ,quoting Red Green, " I am just a man etc......" Ben
 
Neighbor lady found out that her husband had a kid she didn't know about, she is still with him, and there son seems to be following his fathers foot steps.
 
Dude, you are the husband. It's your role in the family. Keep a nice doghouse, and a comfortable sofa. You never know when you will need them.
 
Billy in NY- Yeppers, that "swiss seat" pinched me in places that I don't like to be pinched! LOL!
 
rrlund- LOL@ I rebuilt a 172 C.I. motor for a Ford 860 in my kitchen in 2012. The engine stand is still in my kitchen right now.
 
". . .it kind of messed up her hairdo when the fire flashed out the oven door. . ."
You're the master of the understatement, JD, and a pretty fair country story teller- the creation of a humorous mental image for the reader is the sign of good writing.

Now the bull calf in the bathtub- It would have been my wife insisting that we do that. In fact, I believe we did, a time or two. Or at least a baby goat.
 
She reminds me of the total update of money I spend on my 2N ford on a regular basis, but her birthday is next weekend and she wants a new chicken coop that's going to cost me $2000. I've already made the arraignments for it to be delivered on Saturday morning. All I have left to do to my "precious tractor" is a total retiring, and a paint job. Come spring I'm going to remind her of that while I'm leaning against her "precious chicken coop". :lol: :lol: :lol: Oh yeah I have to stock it with chickens, feeders, waterers, and build a wire enclosed run.
 
"Does this dress make me look fat?"

"The truth will in fact set you free."

Yea, well, don't ever tell her it isn't the dress, it's the donuts she ate...
 
One night I was on my way home from my wife's brothers place. Lets just say there were a few barley pops involved. Well I came through town and the alternator wire had broken off and I pretty much lost power and stalled out at an intersection. Mr. Policeman came and helped me get the truck off the street. I was loaded with scrap metal and it pushed hard so we had to get help from the local pub. He then called my wife to come and get me. Mean while I got someone to help me jump start the truck and I headed home with no lights in the dark trying to beat her. Our youngest was less than a year old at the time and I did not want her to have to get the daughter up. Well she was gone when I got home. A little while later there was a call from the police checking on me, as my wife was driving around town looking for me. She was madder than hell and made me put our daughter back to sleep. Me being the good husband that I am, sent her a dozen roses at her job the next day. She still loves me. BTW, I still have not told her about the tractor I bought a couple of years ago. I hope she just thinks it is one we always had.
 
My wifey had a gathering for one of my birthdays. Got up and told everyone, "There's not a person in the world that can make me as mad as he does! There is not another person in the world that makes me as happy as he does, Happy Birthday dear". Quite the quote. gobble
 
Any woman that raises hell about saving the life of a calf in the bath tub is not worth having. I've seen my mom do it for years, and my wife knows it can happen at any time. She'd be the first to help
 
The most upset I've seen a farm wife was when a guy went to get a rag to hang on the electric fence gate .He came out of the shop with a big grin on his face it was her nnalert worse yet it was from when she was pregnant . No one drove through that fence but there were no more rags from the house after that she might have forgave him but I'm sure she never forgot. I don't think they stayed on the fence very long.
 
I try my best not to make mine mad. I guess that's why I built the shop I'm sitting in typing this right now. If I think she is going to get mad I just head for the shop. Good friend of mine decided that the living room was a good place to assemble a custom Harley a few years ago. Wife pitched a fit and told him either the Harley goes or she goes. He came by a couple of weeks ago still riding the Harley
 
You want to see a woman mad is when we used my grandmother's unmentionables to filter syrup. Grandpa thought it was funny. My grandma saw to it that I did not. She was a tough one!
 
(quoted from post at 11:10:35 10/09/16) That and your "swiss seat" using a short piece of rope and a D link. Funny you mentioned "Australian", that was kind of fun once you got used to it. Then there's rappelling from a Bell UH1, I think I liked my feet touching something a whole lot better !
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I never tried Australian either but I did do a fair amount of slack rope rappels. Out of a UH1 or fast roping out of a black hawk was a blast too!


AS far as getting the wife mad? I don't worry about it. She gets mad she gets mad....

Rick
 
Calves in the house is a normal thing to her, now. At first she wasn't thrilled. Now, using the "good towels" for shop rags, and using the dishwasher to clean parts on the other hand... that's a different story.

Mac
 
1) Spending hours and hours each weekend working on stuff (like building new tractor buckets) that she didn't think up.

2) NOT stopping spending hours and hours doing what I want (see #1) instead of fixing her breakfast, lunch and dinner every weekend.

3) oh heel, I can't think of anything I do that does NOT make her mad....
 
Mine gets upset if I sell a tractor or piece of equipment. Don't think she has ever been mad at me in over 42 years.
Richard the Lucky One
 
Whoever it was that said "Honesty is the best policy" was either being dishonest or never married to a wife holding a cast iron skillet and telling you to just lay down and go to sleep.

Mark
 

One thing I have figured out is that sometimes women just get mad for no reason and at any time. A great mystery it is.

''Heck, I spent most of my money on huntin', fishin' and tractors....the rest I wasted...lol.
 
You the man Greg1959 LOL. I guess if i was single i would have a motor stand in my kitchen also . Just because i could...............
 
I butchered a hog with a friend. I don't have exactly the right tools, but I decided I could cut the pork chops if I froze the meat and then used a Sawzall to cut the chops. I did it on the kitchen counter and nicked the formica countertop. I had a cutting board, but somehow I missed it. She was not happy, but the chops were tasty!

My Mom tells the story of my Dad cutting the legs off of the coffee table to put them on the TV when he and Mom were first married. (Priorities right?) He's my hero and my mother is a saint. My wife would have already left me if I tried even half of the stuff he's gotten away with!
 
Shooting a rat with the 22 in the living room ranked really high with my first ex!

Yes, alcohol was involved.

Yes, I got him!
 
Mine has been tolerant. I usually don't tell the whole story to save a city girl the trauma.

"Why are there two piglets in a protien tub by the wood stove?"

"They looked like they weren't going to make it so I brought them in for the night."

I didn't mention the sow and seven others had died. I did the next day, but I'd just spent too much time with my arm up the south end of a nearly dead sow trying to save some cash. I didn't want to listen to her sniffle and talk about how she was sad. It's a hog farm. In the one that's sad. That was revenue!

I also tend to just say "Oh, that (insert animal here) died. On the farm it's never that simple. She's caught on that she usually doesn't want to know if I had to knock it on the head or shoot it.

If it happens between 9-5 and I can get it cleaned up then it doesn't count. Two years ago March we had a freak late snow storm during calving. I had two nearly dead calves in the kitchen on the floor with the heat turned up by 10 am. I sat for a while and kept rubbing them cause they kept forgetting to breathe. I went out to finish chopping ice (seriously, it was 30 minutes tops) and came back in the house to find both of them teetering around the kitchen making an ungodly mess. That one is still a secret.
 
(quoted from post at 18:21:45 10/09/16) My wife has red hair, 'nuff said.
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Mine too! I think sometimes she gets fired up just because I woke up that morning... :shock:
 
My wife doesn't take criticism well even constructive criticism. Especially when I remind her to flush the toilet. She grew up on a farm where they had to conserve water.
 
" If it is brown flush it down, if it is yellow let it mellow" from a movie , cannot remember the title right now.
 

I guess we all do things that make our wives mad, I know i do.

However, I have found that little chunks of carbon that sparkle in the sunlight and cut glass are the best way to make up. Flowers, and hugs and kisses are great on little thing, but when you by a new used Farmall, well Diamonds are a great get out of tractor shed way to make up.........well it works for me!!!!!


bass
 
Brendon Warren- "You want to see a woman mad is when we used my grandmother's unmentionables to filter syrup. Grandpa thought it was funny."

I don't think I would have posted that...but thanks for for the loaugh!!
 
Everything I did made her mad, except for bringing home a check. She even got mad because I retired. I live alone now.
 
Went rock climbing with our oldest boy one day, after we got back somehow in the conversation SWMBO said I went because I was an adrenaline junkie. I made a huge mistake by saying that was nothing, rock climbing we have harnesses, everyone is belayed by someone else, safety is priority. Now you know I am a builder, I said working on homemade scaffolds, ladders, lifts with pneumatic and power tools is more dangerous. I am one of a few carpenters I know that has not shot himself with a nail gun. It has been close. I have ridden a few scaffolds, pump jacks down.
 
There is really nothing that I do that makes my wife mad , exept maybe , not taking a drink with me when I go out to the field. I just never think of it .Or maybe staying out working 16 -18 hours. Makes her upset if I don't come in to eat/drink. Cell phones have taken quite a bit of this pressure off now. She will call me to see where I am , and bring lunch, that will learn me.
 
It's not about what makes my wife mad, but what makes her the MADDEST. Just after we were married I hid under the bed one night while she was in the bathroom. When she came out in the dark I reached out and grabbed her ankles as she got into bed!! Boy was she pi$$ed.
 
Well at least I am not the only one to do that. LOL But in my case is was 2 in the morning and I was tired of chasing him around the living room. NO alcohol was involved. But the flooring in the living room and kitchen (Where I finally got him) has a few spots to show what happened.
 
Mine was red haired,Irish,and about 1/16 Cherokee.She could get mad! I lost her in August,This thread brings me to tears.
 
After 52 years I've done just about everything that one can do to upset a wife. Bluing guns on her stove, etc. Last year she asked me why I did so many things to tick her off. I said "Cause I can"--not a good answer. Her folks fought all the time without any reason--whereas I give her a reason! I think there's a big difference.
 
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