[Closed] Why do wives need to'talk about something' just as you're going out

Whenever I'm going out your wife just says 'Hurry up, he'll be home in a minute'

A couple of hours late!!??
You must have an understanding mate.

I wondered where all the biscuits kept going.

And yes, I do have an understanding mate. But also, it's not about me. It's his birthday and it doesn't revolve around me so I can get there later on and it not be a problem

You get the bus??

Peasant

Well, it'll give you something to [s]bitch[/s] chat to your mate about

'don't walk away when I'm talking to you, it's rude'

'You weren't listening to me last night were you?'.
'No'..... thinks * and not just last night * unthinks 🙂

When I'm watching TV - I'm talking to you

When she's watching TV - can it wait five/ten minutes!!

"Can I just ask for a small favour" is usually the prelude to a 5 minute self justification for demanding this entirely unnecessary/non- time critical "favour". The task itself, which will take 20 mins minimum, will usually the ntail moving an item that is ergononically, spatially an fung shiawilly optimally positioned or something only a highly qualified enginer should undertake for safety reasons will be followed by a 10 min period of telling me how I've done it in wrong and correcting my errors and allocating me a subsidiary task. Wouldn't might but the fire engines normally waiting outside with the sirens wailing. The fire engine bit's bullshit.

Just go out with your mates.

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Next time, just politely tell her that you really must go, then surprise her a bit later on....or maybe even before.

Then she won't feel the need to hound you with random conversation so she can use her female mind reading skills, because she thinks you're going out to spread eagle that sexy co-worker over a table somewhere.

Admit it, you weren't going to the pub with your mates were you? They know when you're lying, the CIA never needed to fund MK Ultra - all they would have needed was my wife.

Tom, I work in engineering.

Oh, so it's sex robots then. I'm sure she'll be happier knowing that.

Any sentence starting with 'I was just thinking...' is bound to cost me time and / or money

Mine does the same, once yesterday, half an hour, and Monday night just as I was going to play pool 20 mins on the phone in the car park. Her timing is impeccable ..

I get the same just as I'm about to drop off to sleep... Suddenly it's time to talk about the day (again) and plans for the next day. After 5 mins, my "Sorry, I need to go to sleep. I have to be up in less than 6hrs" seems to aggravate things!

Not even gonna go there. It would take too long.....

Oh go on, then......

You're engrossed in something - magazine/book whatever & all of a sudden are aware that a question has been asked. But there's no pre-amble to this question to get my attention in the first place, so I didn't even realise it was aimed at me until I notice the silence at the end of the question....

A polite request to repeat what was just asked is normally met with a 'humph, don't worry about it. I'm used to being ignored....' 🙂

^ This, having spent the previous 45 mins farting about on Facebook.

It's all very simple although it took me a long time to suss it out. You the husband/partner/boyfriend are simply an accessorie (think front fork) that is there simply to take the bumps out of life and smooth things out. The important thing is their life and things like mates, sleep, pool, books, bikes, breathing are simply not important and can only occur at times when they don't require the accessory to be performing it's normal function. I am probably being a little unkind...

I used to annoy my wife a lot by actually attempting to solve problems and offering advice when she starting moaning about work situations etc. She hates it, as having a simple solution ruins her moan, so instead I started just nodding and agreeing that her co-workers are idiots and the situation is untenable etc.

All sorted I thought.

Except last night just as I'm about to drop off to sleep - apparently I 'never talk to her' ❓ I SIT THERE FEIGNING AGREEMENT WITH YOU ABOUT YOUR BORDERLINE RETARDED/PERSONALITY DISORDER COWORKERS WHO I HAVE NEVER MET FOR HOURS EVERY NIGHT WHEN I'M TRYING TO GET STUFF DONE OR WATCH THE TELLY.

In retaliation I'm going to start boring her to death with details of bugs I found in code reviews, people not adhering to the clear desk policy, arguments on the Asterisk ChanSCCP mailinglist and such when she is trying to watch Mob Wives or whatever mind-rot it is she's watching. She how she likes dem tedious apples.

retro83, I hate to tell you this but i think she's been leading a double life!

I'm sure that's my OH.

Married now for 19 years and I've learned a few things:

1 - Never ever disagree or criticise; just feign mild agreement or make a neutral comment. Disagreement will get you accused of being a boring, grumpy old git.

2 - Important Questions can surface without any kind of preamble or warning; pretending to think can gain you time while you try to work out what the hell she is talking about.

3 - Always keep the dialogue buffer open, so that when she says "You haven't heard anything I've said, have you?" you can repeat the last couple of sentences even though they mean nothing to you.

4 - Statements of no interest or importance will be repeated until they elicit a comment from you. Example: "The weather has been strange this summer!" requires some sort of comment, even "Gosh, yes, weird!" will be enough.

It's a mystery to me why you lot are married.