Quote Originally Posted by Glacier
Mine with him is his complete inability to throw anything out because he might need it someday; he might be able to build something with it; he can come up with 100 excuses for keeping junk!! He goes to the dump and comes home with almost as much stuff as he left with! Now that his shop is finished, he can keep all his treasures out there! He's going to be gone all summer/fall. That will give me a chance to take any remaining junk in the house to the SalyAnn!
LOL! My dad and my husband are both like that. My dad has literally gone through my garbage cans when he comes to visit to see if I "might have thrown anything good out." OMG!

They will both keep bent nails, broken hinges, scraps of wood too small to make a domino out of, etc. etc. ... "Might come in handy someday." As if they ever remember where, or what, it is when they might need it eight years from now.


Quote Originally Posted by catland
Did you ask him to set the table?

In all fairness, people aren't mind readers - and don't say "he should know better" - like I said, he's not a mind reader.
Well, I don't know about CritterCrazy and her hubby in this situation, but if it were me and my DH (which it's not, he's actually very helpful about things like that), I would have to say .... as an adult, one doesn't have to be a mind reader to know that tables have to be set, that children have to eat, that dinner doesn't magically cook itself. Common sense ... I think the fact that the rest of the family has to eat, too, is a total no-brainer that anyone should know. Just MHO ...