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.

 

[Bird]

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.

I think that's also known as old age. But I certainly agree, especially with the lucky part, since we celebrated our 42nd anniversary nearly 2 months ago.

 

[roxynoodle]

Just gotta chime in here... my ex husband totaled 3 trucks in 3 months. With the lawn tractor he destroyed all the saplings we had planted. So far the only thing I can say is I backed a TLB into the pole barn door and made a small hole (now let's hope my luck doesn't run out now!)

 

[schmism]

So far the only thing I can say is I backed a TLB into the pole barn door and made a small hole

what she's leaving out is "small" is relitive... to the fact you could DRIVE THROUGH the "small hole"
JK

 

[Soundguy]

I think it's sorta like gps built into the wedding ring... Mines the same way too..

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.

 

[Kendrick]

Yeah, she knows she ran into it. Your telling her won't do anything except make you feel good for about 3 minutes, then it will make your back hurt for 3 weeks from sleeping on the couch.

HEHEH here it is a fight for who gets the couch. the best 2$ i ever spent.

Me I couldent stand a priss. the first thing to go out the door is the collor quardinated luggage the 2nd thing would be mis priss on her prat.

Mine is more likely to be found with the wrenches under the hood of the nearest machine. She even plays on the puter.

cp1969 I am glad to hear there were no anvils harmed in the making of your storie.. that would be a flogging in my household

 

[Snatchface]

And I have no idea how i"m going to broach the subject with the wife of not hitting stuff.

You just did, honey...

 

[Soundguy]

Now if that don't send shivers up the old spine.. (grin)

Soundguy

 

[GordonR]

This thread has made our day.
42 yrs today and I by my own admisson have done more minor damage than the Sandra. That said her gaffes generally result in me having to do serious rework to decks (smacked corner skewed whole thing and ripped part off house) drain lines( ate while tilling for posie patch, red line on ground ignored).
Still the best 42 yrs. I have lived and loved.
May everyone be as fortunate and happy

Don

 

[Don R.]

Soundguy, I have astutely identified your problem. It is not with you, nor your wife.

You just don't have wide enough gates.

 

[Don R.]

The wife takes the little tractor (03 MF 1433) out to finish off the chipper yard story below.
I get a call from the wife
"tractor is broke"
"also I broke a tree and i hit the fence and broke a rail"


Unbelievable
Go out to the site
PTO doesn't come on.
gotta be the switch. Actually, it better be the switch because I have no other ideas beyond that. Get the electrical meter, yep, it's the switch.
[bad word, bad word, bad word]

Load it up, head back to the shop
the wife hits the mirror of the truck on the fence backing it in.

You have got to be kidding me. So, now I get to do all the jobs, because for some reason, she's either not paying attention or she's failing to learn the lessons of driving. Yes, people run into things, but NOT ON EVERY SINGLE JOB.

And of course, out of 3 reasonably local dealers, no one has the switch, ordered it, drop shipped overnight to my house. So, it won't be here til saturday and now it costs like $100.

BTW, attention dealers. If i have to pay to order it anyway, there's no reason for me to buy local. I realize you can't have everything, but it feels like all the dealers have nothing. Just my FYI. If i gotta order it anyway and pay shippng, I'm going lowest cost.

So, i'm down a tractor yet again. I feel like I need to buy yet another tractor just to have 3 to keep 2 running.
And I have no idea how i"m going to broach the subject with the wife of not hitting stuff.

Another craptastic week. This is getting old.

Brian, if I may. Remember the first rule of "Holing." When you are in one; quit digging.