Me: What’s this $95 amazon charge? Her: Christmas presents for the boys. Me: What did you get them? Her: They really wanted these toy trucks. Both of the trucks are really nice. Me: Two toy trucks for a 4 and 2 year old cost $95? Are you fucking serious? Her: WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO BUY THEN? YOU CAN DO ALL THE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING, JERK! YOU ALWAYS MAKE ME FEEL SO BAD ABOUT MONEY. Me: Well, yeah, you spent $95 on toy trucks. You should feel bad. She’s currently crying in bed and I’m an asshole for not buying into her Christmas vision.
Meh...that kind of purchase is always going to get a reaction out of me. $100 for toy trucks for toddlers is absurd.
Gotta let that kind of thing slide unless you can't afford it. Can you afford a random $100 purchase?
3 options here as I see it according to TMB think tank. 1. Let it slide 2. Tell her it’s not right. 3. Alpha male, let her know you’re fucking someone else and really straighten her out.
It's probably Tonka trucks and those bastards arent' cheap. https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias=toys-and-games&field-keywords=tonka
I think I’ve spent $300 on bourbon this week alone. Let’s not get too deep into those details. 4. Bust her balls (ovaries?) because we have different views on money and plan for divorce only to save the marriage with a little booty eating I’m pretty sure this was one of them: https://www.amazon.com/Garbage-Truck-Toy-Model-Recycling/dp/B074WMYNBF/
My mom brings down Bruders that she gets from a flea market a few times per year. I probably have $2000 worth of Bruder trucks in my house. Thankfully even my wife thinks the price of these things is ridiculous.
My MIL is a straight unreliable fucktard. She's free for helping with kids so I try not to bitch. My son has his driving test today at 10am, you are supposed to be there 30 minutes early. My office is less than 5 minutes from DMV and he is taking test in my car. She texts me at 8:53 and says I'll be by your office before 9:30. She lives a good 20 minutes away so I assume she is leaving immediately. 9:30 I text her asking if she already checked him out, nothing. 9:40 I text him and ask him if he is checked out, nothing. Use find my phone and it shows him still at school. 9:45 she calls in a panic she is still at her house bc she lost track of time. So I tell her to go straight to DMV and I'll check him out. Even though I'm busy I leave work, check him out and at the DMV 9:54. She calls and asks directions. We live in a small town, not very hard. I tell her to take Summerhill exit, turn right on Moores Lane, turn on right on Hampton. 10 minutes later she calls again asking what road I said to turn on first. I repeat Moores, she says oh shit I turned on Park. She finally gets there 5 minutes later and takes forever getting out of car and doesn't even talk bc she is listening to an audio book with headphones. I have to yell in parking lot bc she can't hear me she still has the fucking keys in her purse. JFC I'm about to lose it
So far her grandmother and great aunt have gotten Alzheimer's and I'm worried it's starting for her. She literally forgets simple things constantly, has been getting progressively worse last few years. So frustrating but same time she goes way out of her way to help and don't know how all of our kids would get around without her.
Her: wake up Me: it's 5 am, what? Her: will you go to my cart and get my I phone charger? Me: just use mine it's right there. Her: yeah but what if you need it? Me: my phone's charged and I don't use it in my sleep A: it's cold outside and B: I came back in to see her phone on my charger because I "took too long." FML
Why couldn’t she get it herself if she needed it that bad and dismissed the reasonable alternative of using yours?
I always think of the below video when someone says that. Bad drivers come from a lack of good car related parenting. We were talking about this at Thanksgiving. How old were you when your dad first let you sit on his lap and drive? I was apparently 2 though I don't remember it. My gf and her sister? Never. Never drove until drivers education. But there lil brother was allowed when he was like five. Today they both drive poorly. Correlation isn't causation but I suspect those facts are probably related. Makes me wonder actually, with all the new super duper safety laws do kids actually still get to do the sit on the lap and steer?
If you were a kid in the 80's that was the norm. Never even occurred to me that it wouldn't still be until this morning. Actually interested now. How did all y'all learn to drive?
Born in 78. I don't remember learning to drive when I was 5 or ever sitting on parents lap while they drove. In my teens my dad took me to parking lots/empty areas and started teaching me to drive. I caught on pretty quick and I'm a good driver (because I'm a man). Also that little girl changing the oil video is great. Gonna show my daughters, they'll love that channel.
Maybe it was regional. Where did you grow up? I spent the early years in nw Iowa. We also ran a small car dealership so I remember moving cars around the lot as soon as I could reach the pedals and see over the dash. So maybe my experience wasn't as typical as I always thought.
I think it has more to do with giving a kid some responsibility which in turn creates an interest which leads to the kids paying attention to how it's done.
Agreed. I always just felt like the early part of that responsibility was actually steering from my dad's lap. I remember learning to make a one handed right turn with only my palm in like 3rd grade. How to pick the right angle to move smoothly through a curve. Good times.
Both my parents let me steer on their laps. Probably from about 3 or 4 years old. My best friend and I loved Dukes of Hazard and we always wondered how they made the General Lee jump higher and further than the ramp or dirt pile would suggest that they could jump. So we convinced ourselves that when you slam both the gas pedal and the brake, it does something to make the car jump further. When I was y’all enough to reach the pedals and still steer from my mom’s lap, I tried to launch the ol station wagon and my mom freaked and I didn’t get to drive from her lap for a long time. Truly learned to drive when I was 10-11 and my dad threw me the keys to his Jeep at the deer lease and told me to figure it out.