Because wrecking yours won't upset me as much

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Technically it is not my car but I have adopted it and I am the only one who drives it. So it is MY car.

This Friday my wife will be going to her brother's graduation from Seminary. I can't get time off and my oldest has a field trip. Saturday morning I was informed that SWMBO needed my keys, and I was taking her van to the shop. Since she was armed with a vacuum and baking soda I could see she was going to clean my car. I should have known something was up but you gents know when SWMBO has "that look" she won't be talked out of it. So I reminded her that we had different ideas of what trash was, and the wood scraps were NOT trash. We traded keys and I was off.

I worked outside all day, was sun burnt and not all that clear headed when I got home.

After a shower I was informed that MY car was filthy, and if she was going to drive it to Phoenix. She would also need to drive it all week to get used to it. Now wait a minute! I heard nothing about her taking my car. So I casually asked why she was not taking HER van.

I consider myself to be a rational person. I expected to hear about better gas mileage, or there might be something wrong with the van, something that made sense. Nope. I was informed that if she wrecked HER van she would feel terrible, but would not be upset at all if MY car was wrecked. :eek: I thought she was joking and laughed. She wasn't joking.
 
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I don't think it is a good thing to be planning for failure ... I think I would be taking my keys back and say something like "for your safety I don't want you driving something you're not 100% comfortable with."

It probably won't work, and she'll read into the BS but it'd be worth a try!
 
I thought about that Steve but when I got up this morning she had already taken my key and put hers on my key chain.

She's pretty smart.
 
If the car has hub caps put a couple of pennies in them. She will think there is something wrong with it and give it back.

or you can always put a little vegitable oil on the muffler. Lots of smoke and the muffler does not get hot enough to catch fire.

My favorite is to put a balloon behind or in front of the passenger side tire (depending on how they pull out).
 
how appropriate...saw this on Facebook today:
 

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You could anounce about Thursday that you kinda like the van since it has lots of space (initiating the thought a van so full of stuff she can't get in it). On the other hand she might wipe yours and then you have the leverage to pick out a differant one. The key is do like me and get the uggggglyest one you can find. They just hate to be seen in a ugly beat up old truck.
 
Mark, just surrender quietly, your goose done been broiled and the gravy is about ready, I love women, I just wish I could understand them, or speak the same language as they do!, But they do smell better and their beards and mustaches aren't as bad as us men folk.
 
At this point my only hope is she does not like driving my Alero because it is so low to the ground.

Ken, I gave up trying to understand her a LONG time ago. I teach children who are 12-14 years old. I get asked by the boys why girls don't make sense, and the girls always ask why boys are stupid. I just tell them to get used to it.
 
Hmmm

Drive a pickup truck. My wife drives her New Beetle Convertible and I drive my pickup truck. Works great, she doesn't like the truck and I don't especially like her car.
 
I like the idea of how much wood a van can hold. Fresh cut wood has a "distinctive" odor due to all the SAP that is in it. Hope it doesnt get on the seats while shes gone. The bugs cant live in the van for long, maybe a couple weeks...no food.
 
Glenn is correct just think of all the uncut lumber you can fit in the van and you wont feel as bad getting the bugs and sap in HER car!!! Now before you say that put a small piece of chain under the car attatched to the chassis so it drags but is not easily seen then a large zip tie in the drive shaft so it slaps every time it moves!!! Youll have your clunker back in no time!!! Last ditch pull the fuel pump fuse!!
 
You do realize that if/when the van breaks down, it will be your fault. It's what I refer to as Gender-Based Guilt and it starts accumulating the day we are born and continues long after we are gone.

Tomas
 
tomas said:
You do realize that if/when the van breaks down, it will be your fault. It's what I refer to as Gender-Based Guilt and it starts accumulating the day we are born and continues long after we are gone.

Tomas
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They don't even know they do it. I frequently ask my wife why she thinks she has to "correct" everything I say. She says she doesn't do that -- but she does. She also thinks she has to DO anything I ask her not to do, and God forbid that I should ever tell her not to do something.
 
easier to load a new lathe into a van than an Alero.............

just sayin'


Don't say anything to her, just let her "overhear" you on the phone asking if such and such will fit in the van easily. Or bragging to a friend about how much stuff you plan on putting in it.


OR tell her how much the babysitter enjoyed riding in the van....... what do you mean "what babysitter". :eek:
 
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