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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: hblair on August 15, 2002, 02:30:37 PM
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A little background:
I've been married 11 years and have some good in-laws. My father-in-law has about 6 brothers and sisters who do fairly well money-wise. They sometimes do things for us like buy the kids clothes, etc. A few years ago her aunt spent several thousand helping us remodel our other house. I knew better than to do this but they insisted and I didn't wanna piss anybody off.
Well, something interesting happened to me yesterday. I pulled in the drive from work and saw a couple of unfamiliar trucks in my drive. I walk in the door tired from work and see some dude with his head up through a hole in my freekin ceiling. Yeah a big assed 2X3 foot hole in my ceiling. Come to find out he was fixing a small leak I've got in the shower upstairs. My wifes aunt was there and got a giggle out of my reaction. She was paying to have this plumber fix my leak as a gift. Buncha freakin sheetrock and insulation in the floor. My wife sees I'm pissed. I don't say a word and go take a shower. When I get out they have all left. I tell my wife what I think of her in-laws. They honestly meant well don't get me wrong. Must be the way I was raised but I think it's HIGHLY uncool to go *fixing* stuff at somebodys house without asking 'em. Even though a man's wife is ok with it I thought it was a given that you consulted the person who's making the freekin house payment. Am I wrong?
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you are wrong.
the wife is always right.
either that or you spend a lot of nights on the couch :eek:
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Gee man...if someone came over and fixed a hole in my ceiling for free I'd be pretty pleased about it. The roof was leaking..she got it fixed. It cost you nothing and YOU didn't have to do it.
I think you should give her a big hug and kiss and take her out for dinner.
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I'd say your complaint is with the wife, if she gave the okay. So, do the manly thing, and take her out to dinner and forget the whole thing.
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Yeah, what those guys said! And if you don't want to.. I WILL DAMMIT! :)
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Uhh fellas, you're supposed to be on my side.
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Originally posted by hblair
Uhh fellas, you're supposed to be on my side.
Sorry, not my type, I'd rather take your wife out to dinner.
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If this were prison, Hblair's wife would be the 'Man', and hblair would be the 'Punk'.
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hey, if you'd been Johhny-on-the-spot with fixin the leak to begin with, they wouldn't have had to concoct such a story to placate you when they got tired of it and wanted it fixed.
-Sikboy
No, really... relax man, no harm done. :)
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hbear, I mean hblair... Look at where they are all from. Not one of 'em is a Southern guy. They just do not understand! You just don't go fixin' a man's house without his permission! Heath woulda gotten around to it, wife shoulda waited. ;)
However, the guys are right. As the saying goes, or so I was taught by my dad... "If momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy!" In this case, that trumps the aforementioned rule of the Southern code. They were in the wrong, yet since wife approved, you gotta seem happy with the results.
Oops, I think aforementioned is too big of a word to associate with Southern thinkin'. :D
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Sorry, not my type, I'd rather take your wife out to dinner.
Well, I've got a shaved head now too, and I've been woking out. ;)
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"If momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy!"
Or, as we say up North, "Happy wife...happy life."
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you buncha pansies...grow a pair!!
the man is always right when it comes to the castle....you're even more right when you can let the wife "think" she is right. :D
on the good side Hb....ya got yer leak fixed huh! and FREE!! smack her on her arse and give her a good service'n for once...she'll treat ya back.
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Hblair, you whiney little fairy. You shoulda just shrugged your shoulders, then sat down and flew while some other schmuck fixed your leak for free. It's not like it was some inbred cousin poking a hole in your ceiling - it was a real plumber right?
Make sure to keep your auntie up to date on anything else that is wrong with your house too! :p
SOB
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If The Bear wasn't about to get passed by Bobby Bowden in 9 days the world wouldn't be so upside down in Alabama. Don't worry, it'll pass as Bobby moves on by.
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lemme get this straight..
..yer maw-in-law paid ta have yer plumbing fixed? yer wife okayed it?
divorce the squeak.
gimmie her number, we have a future.
or.. you ain't learned jack about mind-diddly in 11 years of marrige? if i was was annoyed as you are, I'd pop in at the inlaws house when they ain't home and repaint some room that needs it a hideous shade of purple. then leave 'em a note:
"thanks for helpin out with my place.. i still have 5 gals of this paint left; i'll be back tomorrow to finish up in the living room and kitchen. love, yer happy son-in-law."
Don't get mad.. get even.
:D
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LOL exactly.
Don't fix anything at the community project..I mean your house anymore, it's taken care of apparently..
Originally posted by Hangtime
I'd pop in at the inlaws house when they ain't home and repaint some room that needs it a hideous shade of purple. then leave 'em a note:
"thanks for helpin out with my place.. i still have 5 gals of this paint left; i'll be back tomorrow to finish up in the living room and kitchen. love, yer happy son-in-law."
Don't get mad.. get even.
:D
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Got plumbing fixed for free?? Damn!! Lucky SOB!
YA sould of sat down with a cold beer and flew a few sorties.
:)
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So they tied on some beer can shingles with some old broken banjo strings,... big deal. They did stuff the coon skin insulation back up, right? How about the cardboard "sheet rock"? Are you not happy with the brand of beer from the case that they choose?
Maybe you'l feel better about the situation if you write a song about it. :)
eskimo
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They probably talked about it and decided to fix it without telling you hblair, because they figured "he's always on that damn computer instead of fixing the house, and he won't even notice". :)
dago
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Hblair, lay off the roids, they are making you cranky!
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ya, you're right it would have been much better to come home and skip the shower ('cause the waters turned off because of the leak). and went right to fixing it yourself without a break.
just think, you could have been completely covered in sheet-rock dust and probably at least two or three handfulls of fiber-glass insulation down your back, before you even had dinner.
ya she really screwed you over today. but I'm a peace making sort, so anytime this comes up again you can send her relatives and their checkbook over to my house. just looking out for ya.
BTW-ya, you're wrong. I usually come home to find a freind or family member has a leak or other repair problem and needs help. so I get to play free repair man after my days work. wish I had your problem.
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HBlair when you threw with your inlaws can i have them?
NUTTZ
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Originally posted by capt. apathy
ya, you're right it would have been much better to come home and skip the shower ('cause the waters turned off because of the leak). and went right to fixing it yourself without a break.
just think, you could have been completely covered in sheet-rock dust and probably at least two or three handfulls of fiber-glass insulation down your back, before you even had dinner.
ya she really screwed you over today. but I'm a peace making sort, so anytime this comes up again you can send her relatives and their checkbook over to my house. just looking out for ya.
BTW-ya, you're wrong. I usually come home to find a freind or family member has a leak or other repair problem and needs help. so I get to play free repair man after my days work. wish I had your problem.
You guys got the wrong impression. I'm not lazy. Been busting my rear the past three months getting my other house ready to sell. This is secondary. We have two baths so the kids have been using ours til I get it fixed. I had already evaluated the leak. It's (was) in the drain. I had planned on repairing it without cutting the ceiling in my living room. Seeing Leroy the plumber and a big hole in my living room flew all over me. It wasn't even necassary.
It's like one of them coming home and I've got the dash ripped out of their car fixing a small rattle. I'm qualified to do it and I mean well, but I wouldn't think of doing it without informing them. I guess I should just be a good bum and graciously accept any freebie handouts that come my way.
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So if you're not on my side just shut up you bunch of freeloading favor giving in-law wanting bums! :p
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hblair, count your blessings. You could have a bunch of freeloading in-laws who drop in like a swarm of locusts, stay six months, run up your phone bill and eat everything out of your deep freeze before they move on to torment the NEXT in law... I'll swap ya in laws sight unseen.
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chit; hblair, I'm serious.. want me to ship you the purple paint?
if yah confront 'em directly, everybody's gonna hate yah; and yah won't get laid till yer ol ladys hormones crank up and she goes temporarily blind again.
paint a few rooms at the inlaws, and keep a straight face when they talk about it 10 years from now.
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HB, when I first saw this topic, I was thinking...HB and his gun again. Big hole in the ceiling!!!:D
Seriously dude, sounds like you got problems with the in-laws' control over your space. You give up being king of the castle soon as you get married... or didn't you know that?:)
Les
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Originally posted by hblair
Well, I've got a shaved head now too, and I've been woking out. ;)
"woking" out?
Oh yeah, I've been following that TV show on the Food Channel too...IRON CHEF!
:)
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LePaul beat me to that one!!!
Karaya2
You could have used the "big-ass" hole for extra storage.
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Get rid iof the wife and you won't have to deal with all here relatives anymore. you should do it now while you are still young and are able to recover from the inevitable finanacial setback. In the future... do not get any girlfriend lwho lives less than 50 miles away. you can do it my way now or have it thrust upon you later when you least expect it and can least afford it. or.... you can just kiss her bellybutton for the next 30 or forty years.
lazs
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hate to agree but... call 'em the way I see 'em.
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Er.....well sorry lads but after reading the entire thread I'm with Hblair on this.
Men are from Mars.
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You Neanderthal! Your wife obviously needs comforting.... send her on over.
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Swoop, the checks in the mail buddy.