The run of bad luck continues

[jacobweaver32]

Just like others have said even though she makes some mistakes it's better than not having the help at all. However this doesn't ease all of the pain but at least she can drive a truck (well try) and a tractor.

My wife is a prissy so she doesnt help with anything outside. Well, thats a lie.... she does bring me out a beer when I flash the lights at her and wave through the window of the house!

Be happy at least you got a buddy out there...

 

[Z-Michigan]

you get used to all your stuff getting destroyed. Including the anvil. Nothing is safe.

I didn't notice this the first time. I have to know - how did an anvil get destroyed? Wife get reckless with the plasma cutter????

 

[cp1969]

Nah, that was just a figure of speech. I don't own an anvil, but I'm sure if I did, it could, and would, be destroyed. But seriously, though...I have had hammers get ruined, including my oh-so-pretty smooth face 16 oz Estwing that got left out for a winter in a flower bed. Oh, sure, it will still drive a nail. But it looks like something I might have recovered from the ashes of a burned-down pawn shop.

 

[hosejockey2002]

It's not ALWAYS the wife who is running into and breaking stuff. Got the new machine home last week, I has just backed it off the trailer. I had the box scraper chained in the FEL bucket, and as I backed through the gate I turned too soon and WHACK, smacked the gate post with the box scraper and broke a board off it. Meanwhile wife and neighbor were laughing hysterically. Later my wife drove the new tractor, loved it and didn't hit anything.

 

[familyman]

My wife drives a schoolbus. I've seen her back it into spaces (quickly) that I was convinced were too small. Her Dad was a drag racer in the 60's and taught her to have confidence when driving. Of course there's the time she rear-ended a Corvette... but we don't talk about it.
I agree, you're lucky she works with you. She's probably upset and embarrassed about it, but may not show it.

 

[dillo99]

As long as we are telling wife stories...I have a good one for you.

A guy I work with tells me this Spring that his wife "announced" that she was going to do all the mowing so he would have more time for her and the kids on weekends (sounds bad to me). So last week he comes into work and tells me that when he got home Monday night she said..."you better look at the tractor...it made a funny noise while I was mowing." Remember the term "funny noise".

So he runs out to the barn and first thing he notices is that the 20 steel fence posts that he had in the loader from some weekend fencing work are now gone. Note: he would not have left them in there if he thought she was mowing on Monday. So he raises the MMM and looks underneath to find that there are NO BLADES left at all. They have been sheared off. He also says it looks like someone used the underside of the mower for target practice with a 44 Magnum. Eventually he finds the pile of twisted fence posts and mower blade remnants out in the yard. That night he went out and bought her a riding mower at sears - she is no longer allowed to mow.

Now the really funny part about this story is the term "funny noise". I must admit that I have never run over twenty steel fence posts with a mower while shearing off all the blades but I am willing to bet that it makes a lot more than a "funny noise."

Gotta love em.

 

[Soundguy]

Not a knock to women in any way.. but for the most part ( there are exceptions).. their brains are not wired to readilly detect things like buring rubber smell, "hot" smell.. small vibrations that come up.. and canot differentiate from noises that should be there.. or shouldn't.

On the other hand.. men usually do notice those things.. again.. exceptions exist..

On the flip side.. women do alot of things better than we can.. like planning.. color coordination.. cleaning ( ok.. I cheat.. I let her win that one (grin).. )

soundguy

 

[RoyJackson]

Not a knock to women in any way.. but for the most part ( there are exceptions).. their brains are not wired to readilly detect things like buring rubber smell, "hot" smell.. small vibrations that come up.. and canot differentiate from noises that should be there.. or shouldn't.

On the other hand.. men usually do notice those things.. again.. exceptions exist..

On the flip side.. women do alot of things better than we can.. like planning.. color coordination.. cleaning ( ok.. I cheat.. I let her win that one (grin).. )

soundguy

Yeah, they're real good at noticing if you're checking out another woman's charms too.
My wife knows even if we're on opposite sides of a store.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Yeah, they're real good at noticing if you're checking out another woman's charms too.
My wife knows even if we're on opposite sides of a store.

Guess I've been blessed. My wife doesn't ever so much as give me a cross look when I check out another woman. She even jokes about it. ("It doesn't matter where you get your appetite, so long as you come home to eat".) Both of us were extremely jealous types when we met. That's one of the things that made us realize we were meant for each other. Neither of us has ever been jealous or possesive towards each other.

We hit 40 years together this September. By now, any issues we had are long past or we learned to live with them. Seldom a day goes by that I don't think about just how lucky I've been.

 

[LBrown59]

We hit 40 years together this September. . I've been.

The 26th of this month marks 42.5 years for me and my wife.
It's gone way 2 fast.