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H1954 Mon 17-Dec-18 16:03:55

I may be over sensitive on this subject but it annoys me immensely...........of all the men I have worked with and the two that I have lived with not one of them has ever been able to open a kitchen cupboard and find anything! If it's not perched at the front of the shelf it's not in there according to the men! Come on guys, move things around a bit and look properly before closing said cupboard door and declaring defeat!

MacCavity2 Mon 17-Dec-18 16:10:07

Ditto with drawers and everything else. When I go and get the thing he swears blind is not there, I usually speak to the item telling it what a naughty thing it is for hiding itself from him.

merlotgran Mon 17-Dec-18 16:10:38

Ha Ha. I often feel like sticking a note on the cupboard doors saying, 'It's not going to shout, 'Here I am.' grin

Maybelle Mon 17-Dec-18 16:12:21

And don't ask them to locate the spare toilet rolls.
Apparently I have been hiding them for the last 40 years !

grandtanteJE65 Mon 17-Dec-18 16:16:05

Well, at least SOME men actually open the kitchen cupboards.

Mine just asks, "Where do we keep...."

And not only in the kitchen, but everywhere else in the house, including sometimes his own workshop!

Cherrytree59 Mon 17-Dec-18 16:29:57

We have mysterious items that move around all by themselves and are never where DH left them. hmm

Maybelle we have our own personal toilet roll fairy.smile

Maybelle Mon 17-Dec-18 16:46:53

Cherrytree would love a toilet roll fairy. Where can I find one ??

M0nica Mon 17-Dec-18 16:56:40

I would just like a DH who shut cupboards and/or drawers.

BBbevan Mon 17-Dec-18 18:51:02

Me tooMOnica I can usually trace his progress around the house by the cupboards, drawers, door etc left open

Jalima1108 Mon 17-Dec-18 19:04:23

Be careful folks - you may find you are accused of misandry!
shock

ps Why does DH leave the fridge wide open after he's taken out the milk to make tea? And leaves it open until he has finished the process.

I should be thankful he does make tea I suppose.

Cherrytree59 Mon 17-Dec-18 19:32:41

Sorry Maybelle all I can remember is that she arrived on the day we married and has been with ever sincetchhmm

BBbeven and M0ncia I am quite adept at closing a wardrobe door whilst pushing a drawer closed my foot.tchgrin

Our fridge and freezers shouts if left open for more than a few seconds tchwink

In the interest of equality and not to be accused of misandry, I holding hands up to sometimes leaving the bathroom window open and my DH enquiring why are we heating the street blush ??

on reading back, also guilty of emoji overkill

mcem Mon 17-Dec-18 19:51:30

Doing my best to train my DGS (and his sister too) by pointing out the the soggy towel fairy/ sock picking up fairy/plates into the kitchen fairy (you get my drift) is not on duty today and she also gave Gran the day off! He also doesn't like being accused of 'boy-looking'. (Excuse the misandry!)
It works most of the time !!
Whether it would work post adolescence I don't know as I didn't experience it!

EllanVannin Mon 17-Dec-18 19:57:44

I used to say " if it had horns it would poke you ".

Jalima1108 Mon 17-Dec-18 20:18:16

Our fridge and freezers shouts if left open for more than a few seconds
Our newer ones do Cherrytree but this is an old thing in the kitchen
Well, it's not that old, but old enough.

I spend a good part of my life shouting 'Oh, do shut up'.
Not to DH, but to the washing machine, the tumble dryer, the steamer, the oven, the fridge/freezer etc etc.

All those annoying beeps

Bathsheba Mon 17-Dec-18 20:21:11

I would quite like a husband who put things back in the cupboards and drawers - and the garage! - when he's finished with them. But no, they just get left wherever he last used them - on the kitchen table, on one of the worktops, on the floor in the hall, on the garden table, on the stairs....

cornergran Mon 17-Dec-18 20:36:41

Putting things back bathsheba? Don’t be silly, then of course they can’t be found when next needed. grin.

Bathsheba Mon 17-Dec-18 22:23:28

cornergran, silly me! And, naturally, it would be our fault they can't be found grin

MissAdventure Mon 17-Dec-18 22:39:04

I have a man in training here.
My grandson not only can never find anything; he blames me whenever we have a flaming row discussion about his lost
Football kit.
School bag.
Socks.
Hairbrush.
School books.

mcem Mon 17-Dec-18 23:24:26

Where's the putting things back in the right place fairy when the boys need her?

annep Mon 17-Dec-18 23:44:26

I have one of those husbands too H1954 who stands holding the door open declaring he can't see any..whatever and I say it's not going to jump out at you.

He also stands beside the fridge making a shopping list and shouts to me in the living room Have we got any milk?

annep Mon 17-Dec-18 23:44:54

Very amusing thread!

gmelon Tue 18-Dec-18 00:02:19

If he can't find it fo himself then it stays unfound in our house.
I've often told him to add it to the shopping list as we obviously need a replacement one.
This applies to everything no matter the expense. After all the item is obviously lost forever!

BBbevan Tue 18-Dec-18 03:48:18

Cherrytree our fridge also 'shouts when left open. DH always tells it he won't be a minute and not to be impatient. All in all he spends a lot of time talking to the fridge .

BlueBelle Tue 18-Dec-18 05:41:40

It must be there from birth my grandson can never find a thing when it’s sitting looking at him, when pointed out he ll say well it wasn’t there when I looked. You can find him by following his trail, and worst of all he leaves everything, and I mean everything, round other peoples houses. Every now and then my daughter will make a list and tell him to ‘get them’ ....Black coat, Jacks, Footie boots Joes, new jumper girlfriend, book for tomorrow’s college oh that’s in Jim’s car
The best one was leaving a pair of shoes round a mates and six months later the mates walking around in them !!!! Last year he came to mine on his bike his hands freezing I gave him a pair of ski gloves, pop them back when you’re passing I said, I ve never seen them again, nor has he When last asked they were drying on someone’s radiator.

Oldwoman70 Tue 18-Dec-18 06:32:23

Mine was constantly losing things, especially keys. I bought him one of those key rings which when you whistle would whistle back - he lost it!