When I'm home I feel like Mrs horse is monitoring me all the time

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by JohnT
If you don't actively resist, you will doom your boys to a lifetime drudgery of "honey-do" lists and missed games 'cause the windows need caulking: they will see your futile resistance and they will assume it is the natural order of things. You must resist, man, you must!

DO IT FOR THE CHILDREN, AH!!!!!!

Yes, a call to arms. The house is full of males so we already have the numbers.

But she has the power. I kind of feel sorry for her because it's a very blokey house. No feminine interests - except for one of the boys whom I'm a bit worried about

[JohnT]

Though the woman had her many problems, Ayn Rand had it dead on when she said the afflicted were so because they accepted the judgements of the afflictors. Yeah, your wife can try to make your (and your boys) life uncomfortable, but it is when you give up and do what she wishes, that is when you give her your moral sanction to make your weekends a never-ending hell of chores and stuff-to-do.

[Lancer]

Reply with nonsensical answers. For instance:

"Honey, can you take out the garbage?"

Reply:

"The european hegemony of the 19th century has upset the cat"

Works...

[Alexander's Horse]

The weirdest part is when you do the stuff they want they actually hate it

[JohnT]

"When you do the work of a distracted man with 498 better things to do it is because you're a distracted man with 498 better things to do, honey."

[Alexander's Horse]

Interestingly both the boys and myself have parts of the house where we basically go to hide from Mrs Horse.

This of course makes things worse - but sweet, sweet liberty.......funny how boy things are so much more enjoyable when you know the one woman house gestapo could burst in at any moment

I suspect it's one of the main reasons I still smoke - it's the rebellion element.

[Ming]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
It affects the boys too. I knew we had a problem on the weekend when we got home and saw Mrs Horse's car was not there and those seated in the back of my truck broke into cheering

I've had a similar experience with my daughters

[Asher]

Women...why bother.

I have somebody that does the dishes, cooks, and cleans -- and will sit down and watch the hockey game with me and fetch me my drinks.

[Alexander's Horse]

Oh come on Asher - gays usually have the same problem because one plays the girl and the other the boy - isn't that right?

There's a lesbian couple at work here and from behind it looks like a male and female married couple.

[Caligastia]

Whenever I try to do anything in the presence of Mrs Caligastia that doesn't jive with the approved plan of activity it's either "where are you going?" or "what are you doing?". My usual reply is "just going to the loo darling".

[Asher]

Not all gay couples have the inexplicable urge to play "House".

Plus there's no PMS or any of that crap.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Caligastia
Whenever I try to do anything in the presence of Mrs Caligastia that doesn't jive with the approved plan of activity it's either "where are you going?" or "what are you doing?". My usual reply is "just going to the loo darling".

That jibes with another thing - the mobile phone conversation - the last time I checked "where are you?" is not a greeting

[Ted Striker]

we need to play, "Guide for the Married Man" by the Turtles

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse


That jibes with another thing - the mobile phone conversation - the last time I checked "where are you?" is not a greeting

I almost never have my cellphone turned on. Work pays for it, so it's not like I'm wasting money or anything. I would never get my own cellphone for the very reason you have brought up.

[Alexander's Horse]

You know those beautiful chicks you chase Ted? High maintenance is high maintenance.