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How the **** do i get my other half to stop leaving power cables across the hallway pulled tight three inches above the floor.
She will thread the hoover right through the flat from one plug rather than just use different sockets ffs. I'm amazed the hoover even works the amount of strain she puts on it to reach that corner thats just out if reach.
Ideally what i need is for her to trip over the bloody things. Me turning them off and leaving them unplugged does not go down well.
I'm going to start cutting the plugs off.
Dyson, Shark , Gtech.
That'll cover the hoover. How about the dehumidifier?
Shorten the cable
Gave my wife a lecture on handrail policy after this at Christmas
How about the dehumidifier?
Crack open the window, get some fresh air in the house.
We got one of those Dyson cordless hoovers - Was sceptical when we ordered it, but it is really good! Kept handy charging in it's wall mount behind the door out of sight, always ready to go and super quick to use.
Replace the flex on all the appliances with really long ones.
Toes are there to remind you where furniture is in the dark, right?
Just wait until she wants to mount a picture on the blank wall above the stairs - 'requiring' standing on the bannister in socks and leaning out as far as you can.
We even have a stepladder that is designed to work on steps available - it just requires fetching from it's storage outdoors.
*shakes head*
I'm more worried about all the sharpening of cables she's doing? Turning the hoover cord into a garroting wire maybe?
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Get some of those H&S signs " caution trip hazard" and the like and leave them on the offending item when its creating the trip hazard? Nicely passive aggressive and should lead to divorce in no time.
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Just wait until she wants to mount a picture on the blank wall above the stairs – ‘requiring’ standing on the bannister in socks and leaning out as far as you can.
That's how I change the upstairs landing light bulb, but bare feet offer better grip than socks.....
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[Croc Dundee voice]That's not a bad image, this is a bad image. [/Croc Dundee voice]
The stuff she is holding in the tweezers is a piece of rotten skin she has just lifted from my ankle. https://postimg.cc/jWNDyQff
Two people I know have died this year after tripping and falling at home. Both in their 40s. Just saying.
How the **** do i get my other half to stop leaving power cables across the hallway pulled tight three inches above the floor.
do the hoovering yourself? it was the only solution i found after trying everything to mitigate the very issue you highlight. there was a particular fondness for leaving a tangle of hoover cable on the landing at the top of the stairs. hoovering is now one of 'my jobs'
between sofagirl and the dog leaving it's tennis balls on or at the top of the stairs all the time, i'm beginning to fear for my safety!
Anyone else surprised that the OP wasn't the usual suspect?
Two people I know have died this year after tripping and falling at home. Both in their 40s. Just saying.
If ever there wasn't enough content in a post, come on, we need more than just this!
Gave my wife a lecture on handrail policy after this at Christmas
How's the no-pudding policy going?
The boss left a random chair, literally in the middle of our bedroom last night, she then turned off the lights and got into bed...
When I came to bed, tip-toed into a pitch black room and then stumbled straight into said chair and started swearing she asked what I was complaining about, My response "that someone has booby-trapped my home" was apparently wrong...
She also likes to leave her heavy, glass topped floor scales just poking out from under my side of the bed to catch my feet.
She'll end me one day I'm sure...
Is it only my wife who appears incapable of putting the hoover away again after using it?
I can't comprehend why she goes to the effort of cleaning the room to just leave an appliance sat in the middle of it with cable trailing all over the place back to the plug?
Nah the hoover gets put away in the big cupboard that was "better before you put all the shelves in". AKA "the everything out and back in again cupboard."
This wasn't meant to be a sexist "women eh" type thread. I am an untidy bastard. But i always leave a path in my destruction.
This is awesome...I've got none of this to moan about as I'm the one that leaves everything behind...and my partner seems fine with it all as she never complains once...honestly, you lot have no idea how easy you have it - just complaining about other people's laziness - try being the person who has to think up this stuff to give you something to complain about! That takes time and effort and it is something I work tirelessly to keep developing.
DickBarton's room 15 minutes ago 😉
If it was only that clean and organised...I'm an indoor Steptoe's Yard, but I know where everything is...proper messy though but I don't notice it so doesn't bother me!
When I came to bed, tip-toed into a pitch black room and then stumbled straight into said chair and started swearing she asked what I was complaining about, My response “that someone has booby-trapped my home” was apparently wrong…
She also likes to leave her heavy, glass topped floor scales just poking out from under my side of the bed to catch my feet.
Are these types of events followed by suppressed laughter,
Imagine what she's doing with your toothbrush 🙂
Anyone else surprised that the OP wasn’t the usual suspect?
Well yes, yes I was but at least he put in an appearance
You know what's really small in our cottage?
Doorways and stairs.
Where does everything and I mean everything get left?
Bit it's my pile of clean laundry in my corner of the bedroom that's the big problem 🙄
Gave my wife a lecture on handrail policy after this at Christmas
What was intrinsically dangerous about it? You can still grab the rail.
What was intrinsically dangerous about it?
The lecture part? Surely you'd have a chat rather than than launch in to a lecture? Has this thread slipped in to some sort of alternative reality where the posters get to dictate and lecture on stuff? If so, I'll have a think what I'd like to lecture on...;-)
are those stairs reeeeeally steeeeep , or is it the camera converging parrallels or something?
My wife's adorable habit is to go out to the car whilst I'm still locking up/watering the cat/turning off the radio, and when I try and squeeze into the passenger seat (narrow drive) I first have to clear the passenger seat and footwell. Spare shoes, gloves, reins, meal deal packaging, random carrots and apples, equine versions of recovery drinks and charging leads. I've taken to throw throwing it randomly into the back of the car.
She's been on Facebook for the last 5 minutes and we go through this routine every time we go on an essential journey together (so only about twice a month now)
Replace the flex on all the appliances with really long ones.
No. Replace the flex on all the appliances with really short ones. If she's right on the edge of how far it'll reach, lop a couple of metres out of it.
If you really want to gaslight her, do it at a rate of six inches a week and swear it's always been like that.
I’ve taken to throw throwing it randomly into the back of the car.
Throw it randomly out of the door instead.
Amateurs, you lot.
Ahhh trip azzards, been mentioning to my in laws for years that having a little wooden board you put across a doorway to stop dogs venturing upstairs is a really bad way to go when your in your 80’s or any age.
Course this is Pooh-pooed and I get the normal son in law lambasting.
Anyway few weeks ago got an 12.30 early morning call/late evening and Mrs DOD has to go to Spanish a&e as her dad has tripped over it.
(Cherry on the cake as her mum has recently departed this mortal coil with the other non COVID big C so just off that rollercoaster of a ride to get on the next one 🙁 )
Anyway he’s been marched up to get a baby gate and clothes he can get on with one broken arm.
What was intrinsically dangerous about it? You can still grab the rail.
Yup and get a hand full of spiky fairy lights at same time, just not ideal for my 79yr old mother to navigate her way around.
The lecture part? Surely you’d have a chat rather than than launch in to a lecture?
Are you even married? Chat to a woman....not possible, anyhow my "lecture " was purely of educational value or so I thought
Yup and get a hand full of spiky fairy lights at same time, just not ideal for my 79yr old mother to navigate her way around.
Or get fingers snagged in it on the way down. I'm with you on that one.
I've got a big L shaped scar from a trip over a "stuff to go upstairs" basket that left me with a flap of scalp hanging off after a bolt head tried to stop my fall.