Comments on: Because I Said So – Dad Edition – Everything and the Kitchen Sink

By: jtrigsby

jtrigsby — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:54:14 +0000

just so I can HEAR what the sound of an aneurysm would make.

Oooohhh, that's just soooo wrong in so many ways… but it did make me lol when I read it!

With one child married, another out of the house, and the baby 16 years old, its obviously been quite a while since we've tackled some of these issues… sounds like some things never change! Anyway, here are a couple of thoughts…

We were never all that successful at the, “I made dinner, you clean up” plan. Most of the time it was up to whoever made dinner. I did try to take some of the making dinner load. I suspect I was a little bit more of a regular at the drive thru than Buck but from time to time we did have a nice, prepared at home bowl of cereal for dinner!

Dishes and beer bottles… yeah, they would have wound up in my lap if I'd left them laying around! No reason for not, at LEAST getting dishes in the sink and trash in the can.

Mom almost always made plates for ours. She's especially talented that way! Me… not so much!

Oh, and the “can't move anything” gene, yeah, its closely related to the “can't ask for directions” gene.

Great questions and answers!

@jtrigsby

By: jtrigsby

jtrigsby — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:54:14 +0000

just so I can HEAR what the sound of an aneurysm would make.

Oooohhh, that's just soooo wrong in so many ways… but it did make me lol when I read it!

Dishes and beer bottles… yeah, they would have wound up in my lap if I'd left them laying around! No reason for not, at LEAST getting dishes in the sink and trash in the can.

Mom almost always made plates for ours. She's especially talented that way! Me… not so much!

Oh, and the “can't move anything” gene, yeah, its closely related to the “can't ask for directions” gene.

Great questions and answers!

@jtrigsby

By: mommadjane

mommadjane — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:54:45 +0000

Thanks again Badger Momma for asking these question, it sure was fun answering them and reading Buck's response as well as the comments.

I love that you move stuff around just for your amusement of seeing him confused. That's hilarious! I never knew men had this problem, I'll have to pay more attention next time I'm around a man, maybe I'll visit a friend and move his food around in his fridge before leaving. LOL

By: mommadjane

mommadjane — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:51:29 +0000

Good for you TechyDad! It's nice to hear about the roles being switched at times. I'm the same way as your wife when it comes to the dish washer. I'd rather load it myself as well.

By: mommadjane

mommadjane — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:38:47 +0000

First I have to say I think it's hilarious that you can't find things in the fridge is they have been moved around. Your poor wife! I do understand the fact she doesn't want you near the dishes. I am pretty set in my ways when it comes to the dish washer. I'll let my daughter unload but hate for anyone to load it in a way I don't like, I'll redo it. LOL This was another fun week of topics. Can't wait to see what's next.

By: badgermomma

badgermomma — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:36:59 +0000

Thanks BuckDaddy! Actually, these are things that go on constantly in my house and I always find them a great source of amusement. I have perfected the eye roll, the stopping and staring, and you'd be amazed at how high I can arch an eyebrow. Sometimes, just for grins, I move things around in the fridge and pantry just so I can HEAR what the sound of an aneurysm would make.

I was curious if the male/female perspective varied as much as I suspected when it came to kitchen duties.

My recent personal favorite in our house, aside from the Towers of Hanoi in the pantry, is the bottle and cap phenomenon. My husband will remove the bottle cap from a beer bottle and pour the beer into a glass and go off with the glass. The empty beer bottle and cap remains on the kitchen counter where there sits a garbage can with a foot pedal just below. Now… why can't a certain male deposit the empty bottle and cap in the garbage on his way out??? No one knows. It is a mystery that remains unsolved. However, I have found that if I hide the beer in the house for a predetermined amount of time after such occurrences, then the phenomenon actually does not surface again for quite a while after the beer has been replaced. Go figure.

By: TechyDad

TechyDad — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:22:09 +0000

This was interesting as the dinner situation is reversed in our house. 90% of the time, I cook dinner. I give my sons their dinner (getting the little one in his seat) and serve my wife. From time to time, I need to help the little one eat (the other times he eats on his own). Only after everyone has begun eating do I make myself a plate and sit down to eat.

As far as cleaning up from dinner, I usually get the dishes to the sink. Then they tend to sit there for a few days. Eventually, I put them in the dishwasher. Often this leads directly into a lecture by my wife about how I put them in wrong and she fixes them.