Mar 3, 2010
Look for the bright side of your spouse’s faults.
Like this post?
Molly gets frustrated that I can’t find anything.
But she should be grateful, because I’m presently looking for her Girl Scout cookies.
* * * * *
© 2012 Abuyo. All rights reserved.
Oh man, my wife got pretty upset when she found out there was only a half a sleeve of thin mints left in our house. We just got the box 2 days earlier. Whoops.
Bad news for you (whether or not you find them) if you’re looking for her stash. Good news if you’re looking for a salesperson who still has her favorites in stock.
Also bad news if you’re the one who lost them.
I’m a loser too, not in the dorky middle schooler way but in the “I lose things” way. I’m so absent minded. It helps me to have designated places for everything (or at least the important things…shoes, car keys, coat, purse which always contains my wallet). It’s always the homeless things that get lost for me. If I lose something repeatedly, I make up a place for it and thenit gets better. At least I don’t struggle with pride because of my natural organizational brilliance.
My problem is that I can’t find the stinking designated places!
And the things I tend to lose the most are my memories and I’m only 32. Why would God call a guy to be a pastor and withhold the gift of remembering peoples’ names and ailments?
In our household, my wife is a compulsive cleaner. She will pick things up and clean and then forget where she has put them. I am constantly trying to track down keys, books, papers, etc. that she has carefully put “up” but forgot where.
I’m a wife who is in a similar boat (albeit that I clean up after people who don’t know what “clean up after yourself” means). My question is, why don’t you just clean up after yourself? Then you wouldn’t have this problem. But it doesn’t work at my house, either…. ;)
AMEN!!!!! Why is it so hard for them to put things away when they are finished with them? Doesn’t work at my house either:)
Who said we were finished with them? :)
When I can’t find the Girl Scout cookies, it usually means I’ve already consumed them. Those things are good but go fast.
this is hilarious :) very witty.
I have a 5 minute rule with Jon. He has to look at least 5 minutes by himself before he can ask me. haha:)
Haha, I’ve only heard of people making that rule with children…
This made me laugh out loud and spit coffee everywhere. Just sayin’.
Get home form a long day at work. You’ve been dreaming about *that* food which is in the fridge (British for refrigerator)…but wait a minute what is this? Your other half has already eaten it? Cue chance to illustrate grace.
LOL. My friend has a finder’s fee she charges her kids and husband–they decide how worth it it is for her to find it for them. If it’s worth it, they pay up and she shows them where it was.
As far as showing a husband where the Girl Scout Cookies are–I’d say the price for helping him find those would have to at least equal the price of another box!
You have to move stuff. That’s what I always tell Joe when he is standing in front of the fridge, paralyzed, asking me, “Where’s the butter?”
Oh, that drives me nuts. My family, they think the fridge is about 4 inches deep. Everything behind the front 4 inches is invisible to them.
Oh, arrrrgh. I get so annoyed when Matt says “just be glad I’m doing ______(fill in the blank)”
If I wanted you were 10 and I wanted you to find the cookies, I’d remind you to look with my eyes. But you’re not and I don’t.
The guys at my house always said that the reason mom could find things when they couldn’t was because I “hid” them… and I agreed with them if you define “hid” as put at item in its place or someplace that makes sense for it to be put (as opposed to strewn across the kitchen counter,etc.)
I’ve had that EXACT conversation with my husband!!
I have the cookies and I’m not giving them back!
nom nom nom
from the comments I gather my wife isn’t the only woman that “hides” stuff…
Men think the uterus is a homing device.