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General => Random => Topic started by: spookini on May 23, 2015, 06:34:34 PM
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Today I go to Home Depot, my wife is in car with me as a passenger. Said she wanted to tag along.
Purpose of trip: to rent an hourly truck and haul 4sheets of drywall. 15min drive to drop them off, then back to the store. Maybe 1hr total, including time to buy materials and load the truck.
At the store, I ask if she'd like to use my vehicle and go shopping while I make the delivery?
She takes off w/ my vehicle.
Never comes back. ::)
Can't make this sh*t up. ???
"I thought you said you had rented a truck??"
I had to go home by taxi. ;D
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I love it! Least you got brownie points for giving her the car. Can't wait to see the responses this brings!
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trying to figure out how it would be to get you two set up for a shuttle run of some sort.
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So.... she's gone.
Now you can go surfing! :)
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This is why cellphones were invented.
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Or you could have hired a licensed and bonded drywall contractor like myself.
California license # C9 627977
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Inside the female thought process --
The title makes me break out in sweat, panic, and makes me want to run aimlessly to escape.
I think I like the Great White topics better.
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This thread is just another example of the casual - and sometimes unintentional - misogyny that occasionally appears on this forum. It was referred to in another thread by one of our female members. I'm not sure you even know you are doing it sometimes. But it doesn't reflect well on you or the SUP community. So if you've got any other rude or patronising things to say about half of the world's population, I'd really appreciate it if you'd get it off your chest by bellyaching to a friend rather than posting it on a public forum where women may be reading. Thanks.
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The title makes me break out in sweat, panic, and makes me want to run aimlessly to escape.
Agreed, it was a trick question -- there's no such thing.
A true case of selective hearing: "Would you like to take my vehicle and go shopping while I make the delivery?"
Good thing I've never tried to coordinate a down-winder dropoff/pickup w/ her. ;D
Mr10... Lighten UP and paddle on!! 8) :D :)
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Wow, thank goodness for the thought police patrolling. We'll all be sure to run everything by you in the future A10 to take advantage of your superior morality and judgement.
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Can't wait to see the responses this brings!
Anything close to what you imagined?
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for whatever it's worth....I have always thought my judgement was a bit shy of good but my morality was ok but that's just what I think.......which doesn't matter anyways.
;)
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Seems like a reflection of the male thought process as well. So you go to buy drywall, the wife ditches you, but you don't focus on the task on hand; buying 4 sheets of rock, renting a truck and driving it home. WTF is up with that? Sounds like an excuse not to hang some drywall.
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Just how some types of leadership works.
The person in charge is supposed to have it all handled
all the way down to the details.
Whether it is all in your head or is delegated.
Delegation allows for the group to be engaged...
Otherwise everyone just waits to be told what to do...
Since you dismissed her to go shopping she figured you had it all worked out...
Not gender based at all...
On the other hand who wants to load and unload drywall..some would rather go shopping...
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Spookini--did you get your vehicle back yet?
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Starman, were you AND she off shopping together??
I did rent the truck, dropoff the sheets, and hightail it back to the store. That's when I realized I was stranded. She was an hour away by that point.
Cellphones only work as a communication tool if the other person LISTENS to what you're saying ;)
'S-position, I can fit 44" of sheetgoods in my SUV. Which usually means trimming 4" off in the parking lot before loading. Since I had a co-pilot w/ me and there was a spare truck in the lot, I assumed the logical choice was to rent the truck emblazoned in huge letters "$19 for 1st 60 minutes!!".
Therein lies my mistake. Not that I ass-u-med. Simply that I used logic :D.
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Spookini--did you get your vehicle back yet?
Yes, it was a package deal but I really needed the car back. :D
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Maybe it was a subtle pay back for something ?
Women never forget...
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******. Decided to stifle the thought, edited to minimize political controversy.
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Misogyny? Sounds like a a scrapped scene from a scrapped Ray Romano show. This thread needs Antwoord.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMK0prafzw0
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Spookini, after ditching you at HD she was seen at the beach with your board. (I don't think she wanted me the tell you)
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Today...I learned a new word. Even had to look it up. This place is kind of like readers digest. I wonder when I will be able to use it in a sentence.
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Strange world, I just saw the movie "Chappie" on a flight. the male and female supporting actors were weird and more engaging than anything else in the movie, Ninja and Yolandi Visser. She's particularly interesting. Plays a sociopath with a heart very believably.
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I think it is pretty much okay to differentiate between the female and male thought process. We all know it is a sweeping generality and getting offended by it is a waste of time. I mean "city folk" think differently than "country bumpkins", and "southerners" think different than "New Yorkers" and Alaskans think differently from anyone else. Except when they don't, but who cares.
I am an engineer, I think in maps. When I see something interesting I often think: "how would I put this on paper so someone could build it?"
My wife is a school counselor, her degrees are in psychology. To say we think differently about time and space is saying water is wet. I have seen her try to text someone directions on something like how to get to our house. It requires a wall of text and even then is very confusing. I say something like "1800 block of main street, tall white house with black shutters on right"
When we are 20 minutes away from someplace we have to be and only have 10 minutes to get there I say "we are late" and she says "no we still have 10 minutes".
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The problem with generalizations is that they are always wrong.
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I thought they were always right??
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No, that's stereotypes.
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Vive la difference!
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My wife's favorite movie is "La Femme Nikita", but I married her anyway, I sleep with one eye open.
Area 51, oops, I mean 10, does this mean we have to have a "Sexy dudes on SUP boards" thread also?
I hope not, because there aren't any.
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great movie! your wife has good taste.
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Vive la difference!
Call me, Stoney!
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Wow, thank goodness for the thought police patrolling. We'll all be sure to run everything by you in the future A10 to take advantage of your superior morality and judgement.
welshed my words were not as kind