My wife....bless her lil' ol' heart!

Stinsok · #1 03-01-2011, 12:51 PM

I know you have similar stories to share. Here is my latest.

Wife-whatcha doin'?

Me-I was checking the air pressure in (our son's) new truck, they were way over inflated so I brought them down to the proper air pressure.

Wife-Aren't they new tires? How can that be?

Me-It doesn't matter if they are new or old, somone put too much air in them.

Wife-Yes, but they are NEW.

Me-sigh....

irishryno · #2 03-01-2011, 12:57 PM

wife-there is a light thingy on the dashboard that wont go off
me-which one wa.....nevermind.

Diogenes · #3 03-01-2011, 01:18 PM

Thankfully my wife is the mechanically inclined type and understands these things but that doesn't mean there aren't others who leave me dumbfounded.

I had a neighbor who just couldn't inflate the tires of his car using my air-tank. He kept trying but the tires wouldn't inflate to their suggested psi. I looked at the tank's gauge and it read only 20 lbs. I asked him why he didn't use my compressor to fill the tank all the way to it's max rating of 125 lbs. He said that he's not as young as he used to be and he wouldn't be able to lift a tank with 125 lbs of air.

MiniMoose234 · #4 03-01-2011, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Diogenes

Thankfully my wife is the mechanically inclined type and understands these things but that doesn't mean there aren't others who leave me dumbfounded.

I had a neighbor who just couldn't inflate the tires of his car using my air-tank. He kept trying but the tires wouldn't inflate to their suggested psi. I looked at the tank's gauge and it read only 20 lbs. I asked him why he didn't use my compressor to fill the tank all the way to it's max rating of 125 lbs. He said that he's not as young as he used to be and he wouldn't be able to lift a tank with 125 lbs of air.

That made me chuckle

I deal with stuff like this from my brother all the time. I'm just 16, he's 15, but he never accepts it when he's wrong about something, and he ends up messing things up.

Relic · #5 03-01-2011, 01:33 PM

My wife's not too bad with car/mechanic stuff it's just her way of describing things that kills me. About a month ago, she comes home from work, walks in the door, plops down her keys all agitated and tells me: "the thing on the thing is lighting up!!"
Me: Wuut?
Her: "the thing that tells you that your engine thing is having a problem is lit up!"
Me: Wuut?
Her: "oh the damn check engine light - you know what I mean!"
Me: Oh. (*walks away snickering*)

Obe · #6 03-01-2011, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Diogenes

Thankfully my wife is the mechanically inclined type and understands these things but that doesn't mean there aren't others who leave me dumbfounded.

I had a neighbor who just couldn't inflate the tires of his car using my air-tank. He kept trying but the tires wouldn't inflate to their suggested psi. I looked at the tank's gauge and it read only 20 lbs. I asked him why he didn't use my compressor to fill the tank all the way to it's max rating of 125 lbs. He said that he's not as young as he used to be and he wouldn't be able to lift a tank with 125 lbs of air.

That one made me laugh too. I had a friend who would only drive his 4-speed manual up to 3rd gear. On the highway it would be revving out bad. I asked why he didn't shift to 4th, he said that the car would go too fast. Evidently the pedal on the right has nothing to do with your speed. It was weird, he could drive a stick no problem, shifted correctly and at the right speeds going into 2nd and 3rd.

MakiSupaStar · #7 03-01-2011, 01:38 PM

Me: How do you spell the Doctor's name?
Wife: K E L L Y
Me: Hmmm there's no doctor here by that name.
Wife: K E L L Y
Me: K E L L Y?
Wife: Yes, K E L L Y?
Me: There's no doctor here by that name. There's a Dr. Kerry. K E R R Y, Is that him?
Wife: Yes, that's what I said.
Me:

**Vorago** · #8 03-01-2011, 01:46 PM

CrispyDelicious · #9 03-01-2011, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar

Me: How do you spell the Doctor's name?
Wife: K E L L Y
Me: Hmmm there's no doctor here by that name.
Wife: K E L L Y
Me: K E L L Y?
Wife: Yes, K E L L Y?
Me: There's no doctor here by that name. There's a Dr. Kerry. K E R R Y, Is that him?
Wife: Yes, that's what I said.
Me:

I call shenanigans. Asians replace 'L' with 'R", not the other way around. Your story implies she was trying to say R but said L.

SteveC · #10 03-01-2011, 01:50 PM

My wife (un)fortunately is much smarter than I.

MatticusMania · #11 03-01-2011, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by CrispyDelicious

I call shenanigans. Asians replace 'L' with 'R", not the other way around. Your story implies she was trying to say R but said L.

Actually it is the other way around as well. Flied Lice anyone?

L-A · #12 03-01-2011, 01:53 PM

My GF can kick my butt in many disciplines, but I get to make up for it.

macaroni tony · #13 03-01-2011, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar

Me: How do you spell the Doctor's name?
Wife: K E L L Y
Me: Hmmm there's no doctor here by that name.
Wife: K E L L Y
Me: K E L L Y?
Wife: Yes, K E L L Y?
Me: There's no doctor here by that name. There's a Dr. Kerry. K E R R Y, Is that him?
Wife: Yes, that's what I said.
Me:

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

My main thing with my wife, like Relic's, is that she is waaaay too vague sometimes. I'll give you an example of one of her worst offenses.

I told her that I wanted to move. Just tired of Long Beach; been here way too long. Asked of her opinion (hehe....like women have an opinion that matters

) and she said, I kid you not:

Well, what if you're doing one thing 'cuz whatever, and then you turn around and do somethin and it be somethin totally different?"

???????????

"You know what I mean, stop playin dumb, you know cuz you wanna move and so you do whatever, but then it could be a whole somethin different."

......OK I eventually got it by then but still I wanted to mess with her

MakiSupaStar · #14 03-01-2011, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by CrispyDelicious

I call shenanigans. Asians replace 'L' with 'R", not the other way around. Your story implies she was trying to say R but said L.

She always gets them mixed up when trying to spell things. You should see the shopping list she gave me when I went to go buy a twelver last night.

first thing on the list was

'strawbelly jam'

CrispyDelicious · #15 03-01-2011, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by MatticusMania

Actually it is the other way around as well. Flied Lice anyone?

Wrrrrong.

The L sound is common to many asian languages. R, not so much.

An ex of mine had a piano teacher for a mother. One day she was teaching a young asian student and asked him to sing a scale using the 'la' sound. You know, up and down an octave going 'la la la la la la'. The kid refused. Finally after being prodded by the teacher long enough he spat out 'ra ra ra ra ra ra ra' and almost burst into tears!

MakiSupaStar · #16 03-01-2011, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by CrispyDelicious

Wrrrrong.

The L sound is common to many asian languages. R, not so much.

An ex of mine had a piano teacher for a mother. One day she was teaching a young asian student and asked him to sing a scale using the 'la' sound. You know, up and down an octave going 'la la la la la la'. The kid refused. Finally after being prodded my the teacher long enough he spat out 'ra ra ra ra ra ra ra' and almost burst into tears!

The problem with my wife is that she's aware of this and often tries to compensate, and it produces some hilarious spelling errors. She's never sure when to put an l or an r now and often tries to guess opposite of what she thinks. You can almost see smoke come out of her ears when she's writing something. But hey, you should she's way better at it than I am trying to write things in Japanese.

CrispyDelicious · #17 03-01-2011, 02:00 PM

I bet your spoken Japanese is just as articulate :P

**nutdog** · #18 03-01-2011, 02:00 PM

Wife: I thought this would be fun for us to do as a family.

Translation: This is going to add to your workload, kill your plans for the weekend, cost a good bit of money and by the end of it the kids will be fighting, wining, and complaining, we won't be talking and you definitely aren't getting any.

L-A · #19 03-01-2011, 02:02 PM

I'm pretty sure Maki presenting himself in Japanese translates to "I like hamburgers and your buttocks".

CrispyDelicious · #20 03-01-2011, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by nutdog

Wife: I thought this would be fun for us to do as a family.

Translation: This is going to add to your workload, kill your plans for the weekend, cost a good bit of money and by the end of it the kids will be fighting, wining, and complaining, we won't be talking and you definitely aren't getting any.