The Wife Filter
I would never presume to put all men into the same group, but sometimes I wonder if there aren't those who have a 'Wife Filter' in their brains. My husband has one, I'm sure of it.
The latest in the I-told-you-so story of our marriage concerns his ice cream van. He only runs it during the late spring, summer, and early autumn, and once he's finished for the year, he usually empties the ice cream he has left into the chest freezer in the house. We bought the chest freezer for that purpose.
Did he do it last September when he took it off the road? No. Did I repeatedly advise him that if he wasn't going to empty it, he at least needed to go check and make sure the freezer was running properly? Yes. Many times. Did he? Of course not.
Is the ice cream now melted? Yes. All of it. Every single box of lollies, every carton of soft vanilla ice cream. All £200 to £300 worth of it.
When he informed me it was all melted, I couldn't help but say, "Well, how many times have I asked you to go check it?" He replied, "Yeah, but I could hear the freezer running so I figured it was okay". Forget the fact it's not exactly a new van and he's had problems with the freezer before. Not once, but at least twice a year since he bought the van.
I refuse to be the nagging wife and repeatedly say "I told you so". I'm thinking it, but I'm not going to say it. What's done is done. I'm simply going to go on with my life and ask my GP if he knows a consultant who can remove the filter.
The latest in the I-told-you-so story of our marriage concerns his ice cream van. He only runs it during the late spring, summer, and early autumn, and once he's finished for the year, he usually empties the ice cream he has left into the chest freezer in the house. We bought the chest freezer for that purpose.
Did he do it last September when he took it off the road? No. Did I repeatedly advise him that if he wasn't going to empty it, he at least needed to go check and make sure the freezer was running properly? Yes. Many times. Did he? Of course not.
Is the ice cream now melted? Yes. All of it. Every single box of lollies, every carton of soft vanilla ice cream. All £200 to £300 worth of it.
When he informed me it was all melted, I couldn't help but say, "Well, how many times have I asked you to go check it?" He replied, "Yeah, but I could hear the freezer running so I figured it was okay". Forget the fact it's not exactly a new van and he's had problems with the freezer before. Not once, but at least twice a year since he bought the van.
I refuse to be the nagging wife and repeatedly say "I told you so". I'm thinking it, but I'm not going to say it. What's done is done. I'm simply going to go on with my life and ask my GP if he knows a consultant who can remove the filter.
posted by Melinda at 1/09/2005 01:40:00 pm
4 Comments:
I'm sure my ex thought I had a filter installed. She'd say something to me and if I didn't acknowledge her immediately, then, dammit, I was just ignoring her. That was rarely the case, actually. I almost always heard her, I just had other things going on in my head at the time, or even things going on outside my head that had my attention, things that were going on in plain sight.
If that's the equivalent to having a wife-filter installed, then the same is true with the other gender. It's not a one-way street. This is why comedians have such a plethora of material for their routines and why it's almost always fresh.
I know, it's an age-old complaint that we won't see resolved in our lifetimes, will we? LMAO Simon knows I write and say this stuff about him, and he's just happy that I do this instead of doing the constant nagging and "I-told-you-so"! He thought this post was pretty funny, especially the part about me going to the GP to see if I can have his filter removed! LOL
It's good that he has a sense of humour about it. That helps.
He knows I'm completely puddled. He's resigned himself to it. LOL Saying that, I think some of my insanity is rubbing off on him ... ;-)
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