I love my wife and all, but Jesus Hercules Christ...

[BC13]

That's dumb, but not nearly as dumb as putting ashes in a paper bag and then in your garbage.

Ha! I was wondering who would hit that softball. The ashes are never cleaned out until a full day after the last fire. Far after any hidden hot embers remain. I was going to add that detail above, but thought "let's see who and how many swing at the softball."

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[BC13]

Agree, don't do that.

Ashes always go into a metal bucket with a sealed lid placed outside for 36-48 hours. Why metal? Smouldering coals burn through paper or plastic. Why outside? Carbon monoxide.

Good reference with short vid: https://www.csia.org/wood_ash.html

Shit...better go check the trash!

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[dannynoonan]

I have heard them talk about loading dishwashers and how men can't do it. To be fair I think that one is just alternate mutually exclusive strategies.

"Put all the tiny shit on the bottom (full height) rack, so that even though the fucker is barely half filled, there is no room for all the dirty dinner plates still left in the sink" is a pretty poor strategy. She actually never used to do this shit, it was always loaded in a way that made sense, up until recently. I think it might be a passive aggressive thing I dunno.

[DryorDie]

My wife certainly knows better, but I was out for a walk in the neighborhood not too long ago, to encounter a trash bin near the curb with smoke coming out of it (ah yes, and this is California and it was still considered fire season). I was on the phone with the fire dept before the resident came out to wonder why there were people standing around outside her driveway. They sent a full-sized engine, quickly, and a cop. I walked away, but I guess she got a bit of a lecture.

I once emptied the woodstove ashes into a metal bucket and put it out in the drafty garage. That was a bad idea. The neighbors also did this and lost their house a decade earlier.

[gravitylover]

I've been using something similar to this for 30 years for ashes and shop rags or greasy oily shit. https://www.justrite.com/oily-waste-...waAoTpEALw_wcB I've probably gotten a bit too lazy the last few years because I pretty much just shovel the ashes in, let the top close and call it good. I used to put it outside but all those years of no problems have bred laziness.

[Mustonen]

My GF works in IT and has fantastic technical problem solving skills. Super refreshing, though I catch myself mansplaining shit to her all the time. What’s doubly refreshing is that she rarely calls me on that.

[Core Shot]

5) Dishwasher.

A,
loading problem. Also present when loading a car for a road trip. Men can always find more space.

B,
there’s a fucking filter on all new dishwashers. So fucking gross when it’s not cleaned. Ugggh. You can’t put food scraps in the dishwasher anymore.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

My wife is at least a technically challenged as anyone's in this thread. At least. It's truly amazing. But that's not the interesting part. What's interesting to me is why this is so. She's vey smart. She's been highly successful in business. Her memory is like a steel trap, she forgets nothing.

But, despite repeated instruction, she can't work a toaster (it's not a complicated toaster) or a thermostat, or any -literally any- of the technical stuff in our lives, unless she has no choice. She can put gas in her car, for example.

She's a smart, successful, talented woman who in one sphere of life has chosen to be completely helpless. She could learn all of this stuff in a day. But we've been married a very long time and she can't do any of it. Why? It's clearly a choice at some level, a decision that she consciously or (more likely) subconsciously has made. And it's obviously not just her, although she has a certain special level of ineptness and cluelessness that I can't help thinking is hers alone. Why?

If there was some way to understand the underlying pathology maybe we could make a little progress. But I'm pretty sure I'm gonna go to the grave still wondering wtf.

There’s no underlying pathology, you have been played.


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[ötzi]

Trust me, I get the better part of the deal. I'm okay with it all, it's just baffling. And interesting.

I'm sure somewhere there's a mirror-image thread to this one. That would be interesting too.

[glademaster]

Ha! I was wondering who would hit that softball. The ashes are never cleaned out until a full day after the last fire. Far after any hidden hot embers remain. I was going to add that detail above, but thought "let's see who and how many swing at the softball."

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As someone who heats with wood, you would be shocked how long a couple of coals can stay hot in a pile of ashes. I've seen it 5 or 6 days after cleaning out the stove. But you do you.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

Trust me, I get the better part of the deal. I'm okay with it all, it's just baffling. And interesting.

I'm sure somewhere there's a mirror-image thread to this one. That would be interesting too.

Most of us are getting the better part of the deal.


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[Core Shot]

Would to see the
“I love my husband and all, but JHC” thread

Where to look?
Hallmark channel forum?

[Mustonen]

Isn’t that just Facebook?

[skifishbum]

I know that discussion has happen tween the
My better 1/2 and the icewoman
But I don't ask for details
We're both gittin new boats this spring
At least that's the gittin played book I'm workin

[old goat]

Metal bucket, tight fitting lid, placed on concrete or bare mineral soil and away from any combustible material. Or just do what the assholes who rent the STR next door do and dump them on my yard.

[hikesalot]

Would to see the
“I love my husband and all, but JHC” thread

Where to look?
Hallmark channel forum?

It almost always includes the complaint the husbands can’t multi-task for the life of them. Women can be thinking of 5 different things at a time and switch thoughts mid sentence. Our husbands can’t follow- what idiots [emoji23]. ( but our friends, moms, sisters know exactly what we’re talking about)

[bobz]

Would to see the
“I love my husband and all, but JHC” thread

Where to look?
Hallmark channel forum?

Just today, I got a mini-rant about how I don't make much of an effort to dry my hands after washing dishes, so all of a minute later when she asks me to get something off a high shelf, ugh he still has wet hands. Whatever; my small contribution to humidifying the airspace.

[XXX-er]

Its obvious to me she wants you to buy a dishwasher

[old goat]

Its obvious to me she wants you to buy a dishwasher

she already has a dishwasher

[dtown]

It almost always includes the complaint the husbands can’t multi-task for the life of them. Women can be thinking of 5 different things at a time and switch thoughts mid sentence. Our husbands can’t follow- what idiots [emoji23]. ( but our friends, moms, sisters know exactly what we’re talking about)

Yep...I get this all the time from my wife. I usually ask if it’s actually multitasking when the 5 different things being done only get completed to 60% vs one being done to 100%. That usually earns me a solid glare.


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[AK47bp]

Yep...I get this all the time from my wife. I usually ask if it’s actually multitasking when the 5 different things being done only get completed to 60% vs one being done to 100%. That usually earns me a solid glare.


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[anotherVTskibum]

Yep...I get this all the time from my wife. I usually ask if it’s actually multitasking when the 5 different things being done only get completed to 60% vs one being done to 100%. That usually earns me a solid glare.


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I'm often told I move at the speed of molasses when trying to get out of the house or such. I've pointed out that finishing one task before starting the next take time--like emptying the dishwasher rather than taking out the two items you need Right Now and then forgetting the rest is clean and putting dirty stuff in and needing to run it again--but it's more efficient in the end.

The end result is that not only am I slow as molasses, but I take too long to explain why.

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[Boissal]

Ms Boissal was a serious gamer before we met. She's dangerously IT savvy and tends to be the one mocking me for using dated tech.
She just gained access to the app that controls the thermostat. For the past year or so I've told her I somehow couldn't add her as a user and she didn't pursue it. She finally called me on my shit after I turned down the heat from 74 about 1 minutes after she cranked it up. Not an option any longer and I bet it's only a matter of days til she changes all passwords and locks me out of thermostat control forever...
I'm glad we don't have a fireplace and she's uninterested in my handheld vacuum though...

[skaredshtles]

Ms Boissal was a serious gamer before we met. She's dangerously IT savvy and tends to be the one mocking me for using dated tech.
She just gained access to the app that controls the thermostat. For the past year or so I've told her I somehow couldn't add her as a user and she didn't pursue it. She finally called me on my shit after I turned down the heat from 74 about 1 minutes after she cranked it up. Not an option any longer and I bet it's only a matter of days til she changes all passwords and locks me out of thermostat control forever...
I'm glad we don't have a fireplace and she's uninterested in my handheld vacuum though...

74*?!? JHFC. I'd burst into flames and be reduced to a puddle of sweat.

Although... maybe you could just walk around the house naked? Would that get her to drop the temp?

[riser4]

U fuct. "Honey, open the pod bay doors."