I had the stupidest fight with my boyfriend this morning

[LisaM]

because he called my reddish tote a 'big purple bag." It seems so dumb now, but it set me off at the time. He put something I asked him to find in my tote bag, then told me it was in the big purple bag, and I thought he meant he couldn't find it because it was in some big purple bag somewhere. I kept saying what? And he kept saying, "the softball roster!" I thought it was lost, somewhere in that non-existent big purple bag.

I don't THINK he's color blind. He just doesn't seem to want to know colors.

I feel kind of bad now, but I was mystified at the time.

[ArkDem]

1. interesting

[stellanoir]

2. Forgive yourself

apologize and I dare you to name one intelligent conflict within recorded history.

Kidding. . .sort of.

[tigereye]

3. what's that joke about most guys

not knowing the "marketing" names for colors, like "eggplant, cyan, cream," etc. My husband is color blind and is also an artist type, and he sees colors totally differently than I do. :)

[billyskank]

21. We males recognise the following colours:

Red, brown, yellow, green, blue, purple, white, grey and black. Ok, maybe cyan as well, although we consider that and turquoise to be the same. Similarly magenta is a synonym for purple. Basically all other shades are merely the aforementioned masquerading under another name.

;)

[tigereye]

23. but then again

what about all those cool colors in the big 64 crayola crayon box of youth, i.e. burnt sienna?

[One_Life_To_Give]

26. 64 Box was 4 of each, right?

Actually I read somewhere that women see three times as many color shades as men do.

[arikara]

4. My husband and I had a horrible fight this morning too

we were taking the cat to the vet and he picked up the carrier. I told him I'd carry it and he asked why. I told him because he always bounces the cats around and hits the door etc. with it... which he does... and he got all furious. I bloody hate men.

[Shell Beau]

5. Yes that is a dumb fight, but my husband and I

will have those every now and then too!

[progmom]

6. i thought for sure this was going to have something to do with crumbs

...and open drawers.

:hi:

[LisaM]

8. LOL!

No, not today. But that does bug me.

[LisaM]

7. Oh, we've had doozies before over non-relevant things

but I have been trying to be in a good mood in the mornings lately and I feel bad that this set me off. I'm glad you stuck up for the cat, though. I DIDN'T get mad at him for not honking at the carpool lane cheater.

[miss_kitty]

9. Did any

DU pet peeves come up in the discussion? :evilgrin:

:P

[Mutley]

10. I have little arguments like this with my bf, too. And he is colorblind.

I try to be understanding, but sometimes it is very frustrating. For example, a few days ago I asked him where something was and he said it was in the closet, in the blue plastic bin, on top. Well, we have a blue bin on the top shelf of the closet, so I spent a good hour looking through it. Nothing. Turns out he meant the purple bin, and the thing I was looking for was on the top of the bin. :eyes: I know it's not his fault but sometimes it drives me nuts.

[LisaM]

16. Can you label them?

Just put a label on one that says purple, and another on the other that says blue.

[Mutley]

19. Hey, good idea.

Thanks!

[tigereye]

24. sometimes I think neither my son nor my husband

are capable of seeing what is right in front of them. Maybe a thrown back from the hunter/gatherer dichotomy, eh? ;)

[1gobluedem]

11. Kiss and make up

I hate fights. Especially stupid ones.

[The Backlash Cometh]

12. There are going to be two more stages you're going to go through

when it comes to arguing:

(1) Arguments that can go on for weeks, with only one partner knowing they're happening.

(2) Then when you're much older, arguments which get intense and go on and on until you realize that it boils down to a misunderstanding. But when you try to back track and reconstruct the original comment that set off the argument, neither one of you can remember what was said, even when it happened just three minutes earlier.

[stopbush]

13. My suggestion: make-up sex.

Works after any disagreement.

[LisaM]

14. We've made up!

I just ran into him. I went out to get lunch, and I was all set to get French dip. So I went into this little deli that has it on Thursdays. But when I went in, it smelled just like his mom's kitchen used to. When I was in high school, I went there every day for almost a month and a half for lunch and she always had a big batch of egg salad made up, with homemade bread. So I ordered egg salad (even more amazing, they made it for me on the spot!) on whole wheat bread, and I started walking back to work, and there he was, not mad at all, so now I'm happy. I guess his mom interfered from above.

[1gobluedem]

15. Yay n/t

[NewJeffCT]

17. it's a guy thing, I think

For many guys, as long as we're generally close on a color, it's all the same.

Wasn't there an old joke about how men see just the 16 colors of the Windows default setting? It's red, it's not burgundy or cherry or whatnot.

[TimeChaser]

18. Actually

I read an article a few months ago that said that women could detect variations in color better than men can. :shrug:

[LynneSin]

20. As Seinfeld would say - Make-up sex is always the best....

...except for Conjugal visit sex which is even better!

[gmoney]

22. But better still...

...is Fugitive sex!

[LisaM]

25. How do you people know these things?

Curious minds want to know.....