Card, envelope, paper stymies California man..

[SoCalDem]

My husband asked me to burn a CD of our Tahiti pictures.. It seems that the man who owns the company that invited us and paid for the whole shebang heard that we had quite a few pictures.. They had several people from their company taking pictures, but a lot of them spent a lot of time under the influence of Jack Daniels and company, so the pictures were not that great..

I wrote the guy a nice letter thanking him for the opportunity to participate in that great trip and set the letter alongside the CD on my husband's desk so he could read it and sign it before sealing the thing ..

My husband WOKE ME UP THIS MORNING to ask "How to put the letter inside the card" .."It's too big for the envelope"..

THE MAN IS AN ARCHITECT, FOR PETE'S SAKE..

So I said... Fold it???


D'OH...:eyes:

[PinkTiger]

1. Give him a break. He's a freaking man, you know.

Men are lucky if they can get out of bed on their own every day.

[leftofthedial]

18. I guess lard asses AREN'T the last bastion of discrimination

on DU

[xchrom]

2. it's a man thing

it's gotta be.
and if i can be totally chauvanistic -- it's a striaght man thing.
still -- i should be able to get my friends to buy me at least one drink for that story. so -- thank you!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

3. Well, there ya go... an architect! Ha! These are the guys

who makes doors 1/8th of an inch narrower than the common things that have to go through them, right?

[SoCalDem]

4. Don't get me started ..

Say I want to hang a picture..

I get a butter knife, rummage around a drawer until I find an errant nail...I eyeball it ..whack the nail thingie into the wall and hang the picture..


Say HE wants to hang the picture..

It involves a t-square thingie, a level, a trip to the garage workshop for a mollybolt thingie... a stud finder thingie (dammit I don't want the picture THERE).. Various chalk marks.. Just the right hammer..

Of course when he is done, the picture would withstand a 10.9 earthquake..

That's why I don't ask him to do things..


I am still waiting for the oak tables that he bought wood for ..FIFTEEN YEARS AGO.. (I long since BOUGHT 3 oak tables)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. Hey, go out to his shop, grab that oak, and fed-x it to me

I could use it right now, and cash is a little short.
He won't mind.... it's a guy thing... he will understand.

[SoCalDem]

8. Ally Mc Beal could not squeeze her paper-thin body

into that "workshop".. He has more power tools and saws & stuff than Sears' tool department..

I always tease him that when they send their sale catalog to him and it says "supplies limited", they are actually asking him to bring some stuff back, since he has more than they do :)

[NJCher]

6. ROFLOL!!

Cher

[PinkTiger]

7. My husband is a sheet metal contractor,

and he does the same thing. Measures me up the wall. And, on top of that, he wants to make everything out of sheet metal.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

9. Well, when you are a hammer, all your problems look like nails

I guess.

Hey! Does that explain *'s bunch of thugs?

Wow, when you are a bunch of hypocritical-theiving warmongering terrorists, I guess you think everyone is out to get you.

[SoCalDem]

10. I feel your pain..

Years ago , I wanted new lamps.. He said.."Hey, I'll make the lamps"..

I pretended to like those UGLY OAK lamps for years... Then I passed them on to kids as they left home.. Thank God, I now have "real lamps"...


and when I decided that I wanted baseboards in the hall, that turned into a month long ordeal, hundreds of dollars worth of oak, AND a $600.00 power tool that has been used only for the baseboards.. I suggested renting it, but I did not win that one..

and he put baseboard in the whole house.. I did get my way in the bedroom.. Cheap stuff from Home Depot, painted white.. It's my favorite.. (I know.. I am an ungrateful person )

[curse10]

12. sounds like my dad!

he has projects in the garage that my mom has asked him to build for 15-20 years! I never did get that desk he promised me when I was a kid- nor did I get a club house!

[trof]

13. OK, NOW ya did it.

If Miz t. wants to get my attention, she just walks through the room with a hammer in her hand.
"Hold it, HOLD IT! Where ya goin with THAT?"
"I'm just gonna hang a picture."
Yeah, with a ten-penny nail.
"I'll do it."

Butter knives
We have a drawer full of butter knives with a twisted notch in the end of the blade. I have explained until I'm blue in the face..."butter knives are for butter. They are NOT screwdrivers."
I even put a screwdriver in the kitchen drawer. I never saw it again and we still have notched butter knives.

[SoCalDem]

14. I had needlenosed pliers until he took them away from me

The lightbulb in the oven burned out.. It broke when I tried to unscrew it, so I used the pliers to grab hold of the base of the bulb..

I did not realize I could move that fast until I found myself sitting on the floor in front of the dishwasher..

Who knew a little bulb thing could shock a person that much..

I lost my plier privileges over that one :eyes:

[cally]

16. That sounds like my Dad

When I was a teen, I was not allowed to replace a light bulb or battery. Even that was this complicated task. I don't remember all the steps now. I married someone completely the opposite. We just put the nail where we want. Occassionally, I have to ask my Dad to help with complicated stuff because my husband and I have no idea.

Send me good Karma next week. I asked my Dad to help hang a 70 pound punching bag. I need help staying sane.

[SoCalDem]

17. Hint.. Do NOT stand under the punching bag

:scared:

[xchrom]

11. i have to say

this might be my most fav thread ever.
there are some great stories -- what a great read.
my story time at the pub is going to be much funnier -- i'll get two drinks at least.

[chefgirl]

15. HAHAHA!!!!

Oh my, SoCal.....I've always been of the opinion that all women are married to the same friggin guy.....you just cemented that theory in my mind! Sounds just like something my ex would have done, and he worked on nuclear weapons for years. LOL.

-chef-