Angry with dh

Ditto Marydoll DH needs hearing aid but insists I mumble…

How much can you tell someone in a second. Not enough to put your point across properly I would think.

Would it be fair to say that Mr Ginster's is probably somewhere around 65/70 years old and ordinarily is a sensible enough kind of chap. He's probably been operating a strimmer for maybe 20/25/30 years and understands how they work and what they do. Even if he hadn't had a second of advice from his lovely wife, he could possibly be expected to know that stones flicked up by the strimmer are mini missiles and if they were to hit something fragile...... like a glass window for example..... it would break! If this isn't something that would naturally occur to Mr Gingster, should he be left in charge of a strimmer? Or, alternatively, was he just like most of the men mentioned on this thread: he doesn't listen; he thinks he knows better; he is never wrong.

Answers on a postcard please!

Right, Marydoll my dh has all those symptoms apart from the sports one. Now you’ve diagnosed him - what’s the remedy?? A hole underneath the patio? ?

SueDonim

Right, Marydoll my dh has all those symptoms apart from the sports one. Now you’ve diagnosed him - what’s the remedy?? A hole underneath the patio? ?

If only I knew Sue, I would make a fortune advising others in a similar position.

I have another symptom to add.

•After your wife has spent ages sorting the washing for four adults into appropriate bundles, grab it mix it all up and dump it somewhere, whre it will get in the way! ?

Oh goodness, what a day you had. Hope the G and T has a calming effect soon.
My Dh doesn't have a strimmer thank goodness; it would drive me potty. He does wonder where he might have left his power drill for a fortnight each year- it magically reappears after Wimbledon!

My DH used to call anything I asked him to do a ‘5 minute job’. Trouble was it took him 6 months (minimum) to get round to even looking at the job - then GAMI - got a man in!

You have my every sympathy Gingster I’d have at least 2 G&T large.
I do wonder if there’s any equivalent site somewhere Mary with a man making a similar list about ‘old women’?

I have the laundry aspect cracked, Marydoll. Since Dh retired, he does all the laundry. I highly recommend that remedy. Though beware, when I did go to wash something myself, I couldn’t remember how to use the machine, it had been that long. ?

Jaxjacky

You have my every sympathy Gingster I’d have at least 2 G&T large.
I do wonder if there’s any equivalent site somewhere Mary with a man making a similar list about ‘old women’?

I do hope so!
However, as I am perfect, it wouldn't apply to me! ?

Sue, my DH does most of the laundry too.
However, mt DD and SIL are staying here at the moment and DH, has no idea who owns what. It's easier to bring in the laundry and sort it myself....or so I thought!

Oh well, if you must disrupt his routine, Marydoll!

I actually said to my DH tonight while telling him this story about your DH Gingster. ‘Are you listening to me’ he said ‘Yes of course I am’
I’m sure when I speak he just hears ‘Blah Blah Blah’

What is it with men and their strimmers?

The same as it is with their power washers, drills, hedge cutters, chain saws…..

Vroom Vroom… boys and their toys.

Love this from MaryDoll….all perfectly fits here except my garden is too small for a strimmer and is generally mine.

How strange that lots of DH’s have taken to doing the laundry? ?. Mine too, but he doesn’t sort colours/fabrics. All in together ?. ??.
I love hearing your tales of woe - I know we love them dearly BUT!!!!!!!!!.

Shazza - youve hit the nail on the head ?

DH has endless tools to help him with the garden, but they don’t get put away. They end up just inside the conservatory door, strimmers, hedge trimmers, hoe……Too far to walk to the shed?

Long ago I decided that boy children learn to tune out female voices, probably by the time they are 7. They then develop the life-long response of “you should have said”. Grrrr….

Mine's the same! I love him dearly, but I find myself eye-rolling more and more these days! (He doesn't see me do it, but it does seem to make me feel a little better.... but maybe a G&T is the way to go!!). I do all the gardening, but he likes to do our tiny patch of lawn, leaving grass EVERYWHERE!!!!! How does he manage to spread so little grass so far??? And he usually chooses to do it just after I've swept all the paths, washed down the decking, or just after my once a year job or putting fresh chopped bark on all the raised flower borders to make them look lovely and tidy and fresh!! And whilst we're on the subject of the bark, he even empties the ash from his firepit all over it!! How does he manage it? Although to be fair, he no longer does that ... after I threatened to chop off his manhood!!! (not really, for anyone who may think it was a serious threat!!!!) And no job is ever finished! I'm an 'if a job's worth doing, it's worth doing properly' kind of girl, and he's very much 'that'll do'!! So I'm forever finishing off what he starts! I could go on and on ........

My DH did the very same thing a few years back to a front window, luckily it was a conservatory type entrance so we could still lock the inner door for security.
I can go one better though. I was always telling him to keep off my little lawn area and get on with his own patch further afield. So what does he do, he drives his, big sit on mower over my little Qualcast flex while I am mowing! Eeek. ?

Fortunately we don't have anything that needs strimming. My DH is constantly taking my measuring jugs to use in the garden. He also takes bowls from the kitchen cupboards to use as somewhere to stand and water plug plants. The thing is, he never returns them! When I ask if he has taken them, he either denies it or says "it's in the shed."
I'm convinced that he has squirreled away my sewing scissors as they are not where I left them, but he denies having even seen them.
On the whole, he is a lovely man but quite frustrating at times.

I love my OH very much, but you are so right Marydoll.
And mine gets huffy too Marybee70.

Sar53

Oh Gingster I feel your pain. I hope you enjoyed your G&T xxx

We all love them but they are still their mothers little boys.

nadateturbe

I love my OH very much, but you are so right Marydoll.
And mine gets huffy too Marybee70.

SNAP!

Oh Ginster,at least you know you are not alone.
Dh was trimming some bushes and i reminded him to only use the hedge trimmer by moving it upwards not down,as he previously went through the cable.
His reply was "i know what i am doing".
Lo and behold,within a minute he did the same again.
Thankfully i have a son who is a whizz with electricals.
I didn`t say a word as it would have been an unpleasant one, but my face said it all.
Grrrr.

Ginster my dh took over laundry (and indeed all household) responsibilities when I badly fractured my leg, was in hospital for ten days and on crutches for weeks afterwards. He then retired from work and I think the laundry is a displacement activity for work. . He is meticulous about sorting colours etc, almost too fussy, but I hold my tongue. ?