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 Pook
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...clean and mop the floors
...sort out the broadband,
...sort the home insurance
...cook a raft of meals to freeze for our lad
...clean the hob
...pack for our holiday

NO!


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 11:40 am
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NO! I'm off for a ride

FTFY 😀


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 11:42 am
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Pook - get out of my house and away from my wife!

(Do the floors first though, eh?)


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 11:43 am
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My wife knows her plaice.


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 12:16 pm
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My wife knows her plaice.

She's a fishmonger ? 🙂


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 12:18 pm
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Well, she asked me to fillet for her 🙂


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 12:20 pm
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😆


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 12:20 pm
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I tend to fit a few of those in during the day anyway working from home and I normally do all the cooking as well seen as I'm here.

Don't think I would fancy having the orders barked at me though, especially if its a busy day at work.


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 12:20 pm
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...clean and mop the floors
...sort out the broadband,
...sort the home insurance
...cook a raft of meals to freeze for our lad
...clean the hob
...pack for our holiday

NO!


clean and mop floors - yes, if it's bike mess then seems fair, if not no
broadband, yes essential for stw
home insurance - yes, make sure bikes are suitably covered
cook, yes make all the stuff you like eg one massive chilli con carne/curry split into multiple bags
hob, no enforce the I cooked you clean rule
holiday, pack all your stuff and say there was no room for hers and/or put in stuff she hardly wears/cannot fit into, she'll never ask again


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 12:21 pm
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He he, someone "working from home" pretending they actually do a full days work 🙂

Is it just things that you like doing that are allowed to distract you.

If you had to do all that stuff it would feel like [b]working[/b], and if you were going to do a full days work, you might as well be in the office ! 😉


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 12:26 pm
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NO - I'm too busy playing GTA V with my laptop open on the desk next to me.


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 12:33 pm
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Can you not see I'm posting on singletrack, woman!


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 12:37 pm
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Have you mown the grass yet?


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 12:40 pm
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...clean and mop the floors
...clean the hob

Mrshora is shockingly bad at cleaning. I literally have to bite my tongue when shes telling her friends how she spends her day off 'cleaning'.

Cleaning what? Using wetwipes isn't cleaning love.


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 12:43 pm
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tsk! does no one clean the windows in you house?


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 12:44 pm
 Sui
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Cleaning what? Using wetwipes isn't cleaning love.

HA HA - the same here as well..

My missus is like that too - og, can you go to the veg shop, can you go in the loft for this, can you pick the kids up, can you drop the kids off (only in the pan fnarr fnarr).


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 12:47 pm
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Sure, so long as you spend the next 6 hours on conference calls listening to self important eejits while trying to do a days work and post on STW


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 12:48 pm
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hora- I fear our wife is a bigamist!


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 12:52 pm
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There is a difference I find, between actually doing a good job and appearing to do a good job.


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 12:55 pm
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put your headphones on and ignore her...

Sometimes when it gets to 7.30pm I go outside the house and then come back in and announce "honey, I'm home!" and then she gets the point at why I have been ignoring her.

Or if she was hassling me in the morning I will do that at lunchtime but announce "Honey, I am home for lunch!".


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 12:57 pm
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Posted : 06/06/2014 1:08 pm
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The i was a get out of gaol free card.


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 2:08 pm
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Yep Mrs1111 asked me to do all sorts of jobs today. so far i have hung the washing out (i need a fresh work top for tomorrow) i don't think ill be doing anything else if Im honest


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 2:08 pm
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for me it involves entertaining our errant toddler "just for a couple of minutes" whilst she attends to something important like getting her nails done...


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 2:37 pm
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"Seeing as you are off today..."


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 8:44 pm
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I work at home and have to continually remind mrs busydog that between actual work and reading posts on STW, there just [u]isn't[/u] time enough to take on any additional tasks


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 8:53 pm
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It don't matter whether it;'s home or at work. My wife think I spend my time drinking cocktails and talking bullshit,

but she's wrong about the cocktails


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 10:32 pm
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These are my favourites.

It's like a snapshot of inevitability. I'm not married, yet, but it will probably be to this one.

Horas Missus. Innit.


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 10:49 pm
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There is worse, when on nights it's assumed you can still do all of those requests during the day when you are doing nothing.


 
Posted : 06/06/2014 10:57 pm

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