Wife Training 101

flwiii · May 25, 2006

That picture scares me a bit on 2 points.

1. Standing in front of the tracks.
2. Having her head under the loader arms.

Hard to say who won in the deal, you or your wife.

flwiii · May 25, 2006

That picture scares me a bit on 2 points.

1. Standing in front of the tracks.
2. Having her head under the loader arms.

Hard to say who won in the deal, you or your wife.

billbill1 · May 25, 2006

Not all of them, I have proof!! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

billbill1 · May 25, 2006

Not all of them, I have proof!! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Farmwithjunk · May 25, 2006

Back when the kids were young, my wife and mother-in-law had a conversation one afternnon about how nice it would be to have a pool (for the kids).

Less than a week later, we had a pool "kit" delivered to the house. Guess who got to put it up? And they didn't include a few things in the "kit". Like 5 tons of sand to level underneath. Or the "poolboy" who ended up being the same village idiot that assembled the pool.

First summer, EVERY kid with-in 5 miles spent time in the pool EXCEPT mine. They used it a few hours at first, then got bored.

Second summer, the only ones in the pool were me and our yellow lab. She'd swim out to the floting lounge chairs, climb in and go to sleep.

Third summer, I "accidently" busted down one sidewall while the pool was full of water. (Installing ladder. That's my story and I'm sticking to it) It was a fun ride as all the water ran out. I ended up 50' "down stream".

Fourth summer, I had to pay someone to disassemble the pool and haul it off.

I see a simular story ahead involving a hot tub.

Farmwithjunk · May 25, 2006

Back when the kids were young, my wife and mother-in-law had a conversation one afternnon about how nice it would be to have a pool (for the kids).

Less than a week later, we had a pool "kit" delivered to the house. Guess who got to put it up? And they didn't include a few things in the "kit". Like 5 tons of sand to level underneath. Or the "poolboy" who ended up being the same village idiot that assembled the pool.

First summer, EVERY kid with-in 5 miles spent time in the pool EXCEPT mine. They used it a few hours at first, then got bored.

Second summer, the only ones in the pool were me and our yellow lab. She'd swim out to the floting lounge chairs, climb in and go to sleep.

Third summer, I "accidently" busted down one sidewall while the pool was full of water. (Installing ladder. That's my story and I'm sticking to it) It was a fun ride as all the water ran out. I ended up 50' "down stream".

Fourth summer, I had to pay someone to disassemble the pool and haul it off.

I see a simular story ahead involving a hot tub.

scott_vt · May 25, 2006

( ( How do I get my wife to think she DOESN'T want a new hot tub? )

Hot tubs and swimming pools. They're really GREAT for the first year or so. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif I've known lots of people who had them; had an in ground swimming pool ourselves for about 11 years. I've also known some people who had them taken out or filled in, and I've known some who had them and moved; just to get a home without a hot tub or swimming pool, but I've only personally known of one person who had a swimming pool, moved to a new place and had another pool installed. Never known anyone to have a second hot tub. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Once rid of the first one; nevermore. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif But I'm sure there are exceptions to that; just that I never met one of them. )

Oh yes a pool /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif Well, I have a built in pool and the hot tub built in with it and drains into the pool. I love to swim in the hot weather, and dont really mind when my youngest boy brings over his girlfriend for a trip to the hot tub /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif But it is some work maintaining and keeping nice. And then there are times like this spring when I opened it up, and found out I needed a new DE filter element for my Nautilus filter, $330 Mr. Martin, thankyou very much /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Then $200 for chemicals, Thankyou Mr. Martin, will that be all. Get pool running, heater wont ignite,. and I hate playing with propane, get serviceman /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Have wife come home and tell me that if we ever move to Vt, which we will we need another pool for the grandkids /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif No way Kathleen, its too cold up there for inground pools they would freze solid and crack and be ruined, cant do it /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Sorry, I had to vent !!!

scott_vt · May 25, 2006

( ( How do I get my wife to think she DOESN'T want a new hot tub? )

Hot tubs and swimming pools. They're really GREAT for the first year or so. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif I've known lots of people who had them; had an in ground swimming pool ourselves for about 11 years. I've also known some people who had them taken out or filled in, and I've known some who had them and moved; just to get a home without a hot tub or swimming pool, but I've only personally known of one person who had a swimming pool, moved to a new place and had another pool installed. Never known anyone to have a second hot tub. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Once rid of the first one; nevermore. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif But I'm sure there are exceptions to that; just that I never met one of them. )

Oh yes a pool /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif Well, I have a built in pool and the hot tub built in with it and drains into the pool. I love to swim in the hot weather, and dont really mind when my youngest boy brings over his girlfriend for a trip to the hot tub /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif But it is some work maintaining and keeping nice. And then there are times like this spring when I opened it up, and found out I needed a new DE filter element for my Nautilus filter, $330 Mr. Martin, thankyou very much /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Then $200 for chemicals, Thankyou Mr. Martin, will that be all. Get pool running, heater wont ignite,. and I hate playing with propane, get serviceman /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Have wife come home and tell me that if we ever move to Vt, which we will we need another pool for the grandkids /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif No way Kathleen, its too cold up there for inground pools they would freze solid and crack and be ruined, cant do it /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Sorry, I had to vent !!!

Egon · May 25, 2006

Yes; " The Manly Man " thinking he is in control!! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Never fear; " she who must be obeyed " will always be one step ahead of you but you never even know it! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Egon /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Egon · May 25, 2006

Yes; " The Manly Man " thinking he is in control!! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Never fear; " she who must be obeyed " will always be one step ahead of you but you never even know it! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Egon /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

GeneD14 · May 25, 2006

( Yes; " The Manly Man " thinking he is in control!!

Never fear; " she who must be obeyed " will always be one step ahead of you but you never even know it!

Egon
)
Boy you sure hit the nail on the head there! She will usually give me enough details to let me draw the "right" conclusion. She is always finding a way to let me think that I have won when actually she ends up getting exactly what she wants.

I am sure that I will pay dearly for this little oil change stunt. /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

GeneD14 · May 25, 2006

( Yes; " The Manly Man " thinking he is in control!!

Never fear; " she who must be obeyed " will always be one step ahead of you but you never even know it!

Egon
)
Boy you sure hit the nail on the head there! She will usually give me enough details to let me draw the "right" conclusion. She is always finding a way to let me think that I have won when actually she ends up getting exactly what she wants.

I am sure that I will pay dearly for this little oil change stunt. /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

Farmwithjunk · May 25, 2006

( ( Yes; " The Manly Man " thinking he is in control!!

Never fear; " she who must be obeyed " will always be one step ahead of you but you never even know it!

Egon
)
Boy you sure hit the nail on the head there! She will usually give me enough details to let me draw the "right" conclusion. She is always finding a way to let me think that I have won when actually she ends up getting exactly what she wants.

I am sure that I will pay dearly for this little oil change stunt. /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif )

In my lifetime, I've met THREE women who could lead me around by the nose. My MOTHER. And she should have been able to do that. My wife. When we met, she'd let everyone run over her. I taught her different. Now she runs over me. #3, My daughter. And she's got this little girl of her own who's getting all the tutoring from granny and mom on how to do what they already excell at.

My fate is sealed. That happened seconds after the "I do".

Farmwithjunk · May 25, 2006

( ( Yes; " The Manly Man " thinking he is in control!!

Never fear; " she who must be obeyed " will always be one step ahead of you but you never even know it!

Egon
)
Boy you sure hit the nail on the head there! She will usually give me enough details to let me draw the "right" conclusion. She is always finding a way to let me think that I have won when actually she ends up getting exactly what she wants.

I am sure that I will pay dearly for this little oil change stunt. /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif )

In my lifetime, I've met THREE women who could lead me around by the nose. My MOTHER. And she should have been able to do that. My wife. When we met, she'd let everyone run over her. I taught her different. Now she runs over me. #3, My daughter. And she's got this little girl of her own who's getting all the tutoring from granny and mom on how to do what they already excell at.

My fate is sealed. That happened seconds after the "I do".

JDgreen227 · May 25, 2006

Wife's folks had a backyard, inground pool while she was growing up, every time we visited my in laws she told me, maybe some day we can have a pool too? Well, my in laws decided they wanted to get rid of theirs, and my better half told me, NOW is our chance to have a pool. I told her since I'd be the one who had to maintain it, and I can't swim, it had no place in our backyard. We argued a lot about it, but the pool didn't end up here.

About two years after the pool incident, we decided to build an addition to our house. Guess where the addition was built on...the only choice we had was the backyard, and the addition was roughly the same size as the pool would have been.

About a year after all the construction was done, we were sitting on the new deck admiring the sunrise. And my wife said to me:

"Honey, I'm glad you didn't want that pool...."

Fourteen years of marriage, and she FINALLY told me I had made a correct decision.

I'm going to treasure the memories of that morning for the rest of my life.

/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

JDgreen227 · May 25, 2006

Wife's folks had a backyard, inground pool while she was growing up, every time we visited my in laws she told me, maybe some day we can have a pool too? Well, my in laws decided they wanted to get rid of theirs, and my better half told me, NOW is our chance to have a pool. I told her since I'd be the one who had to maintain it, and I can't swim, it had no place in our backyard. We argued a lot about it, but the pool didn't end up here.

About two years after the pool incident, we decided to build an addition to our house. Guess where the addition was built on...the only choice we had was the backyard, and the addition was roughly the same size as the pool would have been.

About a year after all the construction was done, we were sitting on the new deck admiring the sunrise. And my wife said to me:

"Honey, I'm glad you didn't want that pool...."

Fourteen years of marriage, and she FINALLY told me I had made a correct decision.

I'm going to treasure the memories of that morning for the rest of my life.

/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

HomeBrew2 · May 25, 2006

If you get stuck getting a spa, try a portable one. I got one at Costco for $1500 about ... 2 girlfriends ago. Delivered by UPS in 9 boxes. Snaps together, weighs nothing, 120V heater and pump, can be smashed with tractor and put into trashs can if needed. I see they make nicer looking ones with more features now for the same price.
Cheers!

HomeBrew2 · May 25, 2006

If you get stuck getting a spa, try a portable one. I got one at Costco for $1500 about ... 2 girlfriends ago. Delivered by UPS in 9 boxes. Snaps together, weighs nothing, 120V heater and pump, can be smashed with tractor and put into trashs can if needed. I see they make nicer looking ones with more features now for the same price.
Cheers!

Highbeam · May 25, 2006

I am on my fourth year now of hot tubbing several nights per week. I am not a rain tubber, a super hot day tubber, or a cold and windy tubber but set me out there on night when the ground is covered with snow and give me a tall glass of bourbon and coke and I am about as happy as I'll ever be. We keep it cooler than some at 100 degrees which lets you soak for a long time. It is also a time when the wife and I, plus the kids are not distracted by the phone, TV, chores, or tractors. We talk.

I do agree though that the typical buyer is done with it in about a year, but what a great year.

Of course I grew up as a pool rat working at pools and swimming competitively so it is in my blood.

Highbeam · May 25, 2006

I am on my fourth year now of hot tubbing several nights per week. I am not a rain tubber, a super hot day tubber, or a cold and windy tubber but set me out there on night when the ground is covered with snow and give me a tall glass of bourbon and coke and I am about as happy as I'll ever be. We keep it cooler than some at 100 degrees which lets you soak for a long time. It is also a time when the wife and I, plus the kids are not distracted by the phone, TV, chores, or tractors. We talk.

I do agree though that the typical buyer is done with it in about a year, but what a great year.

Of course I grew up as a pool rat working at pools and swimming competitively so it is in my blood.