Marriage advice needed for my recipe for disaster

[DECK SWABBER 58]

Re: Marriage advice needed for my recipe for disaster

You could turn this thing around and make your wife proud of you. Here's how....
Open the dishwasher, load it with pans, especially your duel duty carb pan....(By the way, doesn't pasta contain carbs anyhow?.....) anywho add some Clorox to the dishwasher, to help sanitize the utensils. Your wife will see and smell the now sanitized situation, and admire you for your war on germs.......Good Luck

^^^+1000.

 

[DECK SWABBER 58]

Re: Marriage advice needed for my recipe for disaster

I am of the old school train of thought. "What she doesn't know won't hurt you"...

^^^+100,000

 

[Cofe]

Re: Marriage advice needed for my recipe for disaster

Well she did mention a marriage counselor once ... I told her to go ahead as it would be good for her but I don't think she got it :facepalm:

Yep, I am old school. Get outside, get your hands dirty and try to fix things yourself if you have the basics of good common sense (mechanically speaking too).

I got lucky today ... in many ways ... I was going to go to an mini-storage auction but it turned out to be complete units only so instead of turning the trailer around I decided to go to the scrap yard first, habitat for humanity next and then a couple of Goodwill or GCF type of stores in my area. Here is the order of a good day for me:

1. Bought a 4'x8'x1/16" new sheet of aluminum for $18.00
2. Bought 10yo a electronic lab kit and he actually turned off the TV to READ and do it!
3. Besides getting my other sons license plate and inspection done it was a good day!
4. I forgot to mention the 10 letters from the state tax office :facepalm: (could have been worse ... it could have been 11)

At the scrap yard I eyed a many tall pots there ... stainless and aluminum but the next one will be stainless. They sell me that stuff for a buck a pound. Not bad.

Ok. so what did you decide to do? ........
Or did you forget what you did?........

 

[accentphoto]

Re: Marriage advice needed for my recipe for disaster

I decided to call it my permanent utility pot and brought down the duplicate one. It was time for a change . Here is how it goes ... "okay honey, we need to use this pot now because the other one does not sit properly on the heating element very well and since we are going to put in a ceramic top anyways you might as well get used to the idea of me buying a new set of cookware that the kids cannot touch!"

So no more worries from everyone about how bad the leaching chemicals are going to be for the family. They can get their own exposure with their own experiences in life like sucking on a hose to get some gas moving thru a hose or something like that.

 

[accentphoto]

Re: Marriage advice needed for my recipe for disaster

Oh and the "pasta containing carbs anyways ..." LMAO ... very funny. I will never forget that one.

 

[Cofe]

Re: Marriage advice needed for my recipe for disaster

I decided to call it my permanent utility pot and brought down the duplicate one. It was time for a change . Here is how it goes ... "okay honey, we need to use this pot now because the other one does not sit properly on the heating element very well and since we are going to put in a ceramic top anyways you might as well get used to the idea of me buying a new set of cookware that the kids cannot touch!"

So no more worries from everyone about how bad the leaching chemicals are going to be for the family. They can get their own exposure with their own experiences in life like sucking on a hose to get some gas moving thru a hose or something like that.

LoL......So now you have new carb, oil, gas, grease, pans.
Congratulations! You have handled this very Manly. Now for your next mission. Explain why all the kitchen funnels are missing......

 

[emoney]

Re: Marriage advice needed for my recipe for disaster

All I know is I'm gonna need some "hush money" to keep this little story on the down low. Do you need my PayPal account or will you be mailing a money order?

 

[accentphoto]

You noticed emoney that I seemed like I disappeared for a couple of days ... just running from you. Now EVERYONE is going to want some hush money ... LOL ... if I only had it to share. For some reason it keeps going to the boat restoration and cookware. Cofe... don't even go there. I washed them out years ago and then went to Harbor Freight to buy some cheap multi pack funnels. Now don't even ask about the 5" sieve that sits by the sink. Man that thing is just the right size for many manly repairs. Just glad its stainless! And I'll tell you this, the little spherical halve handled tea infuser makes the BEST small parts basked ... errrrr ... did I just admit that too? You know this is endless

I should have changed the post to "lets be honest with ourselves" and just ask ... "what have you used from the house that you really shouldn't have to fix something?".

Once you guys start owning up I will let you know about my hairdryer, stainless BBQ skewer and cloths iron stories.

 

[tx1961whaler]

Re: Marriage advice needed for my recipe for disaster

Hair dryer = shrink tube shrinker
BBQ skewer is to hang stuff from to spray paint
Coffee maker filter basket is perfect to filter gasoline

 

[DocR]

Re: Marriage advice needed for my recipe for disaster

Do you farm out carb work, I sure wish I had carbs that are as cleaned out as good as yours are.

My garage 28x48 with doors at each end, my father built in 1968. Last year we had a ice storm and I parked my wife's car in the garage over night. That is the only time a car has ever been in my garage! My wife will tell you that the only way to get around in my garage is to stay on the man trails. She can look for something in my garage for hours, then just yell for me help. I just walk in and in two sec I have the item in my hand. She runs the house. I just hide out in the garage.

 

[accentphoto]

Re: Marriage advice needed for my recipe for disaster

DocR you just increased my vocabulary. My new word is "MAN TRAILS". Yes I know it is two words but I will use it as one. Now that I am older I can use that one a lot. In fact, I used it a few minutes with my wife as I was going out to the garage ... great laugh. Now if she could only remember how to follow the "Happy Trail" as but it doesn't get followed as much. Must have been one of those first few dates kind of thing. For those of you who have never heard of following the "Happy Trail" it meant for a girl (and I mean girl, female, woman, wife) to start unbuttoning the top button of your shirt to discover the chest hair and to keep unbuttoning until she finds where it ends. I always tell them about the "big" surprise at the end of the trail.

 

[accentphoto]

Re: Marriage advice needed for my recipe for disaster

ts1962whaler ... my hair dryer is a freezer defroster, paint dryer and recently a tube shrinker.
the skewers have lots of good uses. First one is to heat up the tip to make holes in plastic when needed. I use them to pick things and push things in areas too small for a punch plus the added length helps. They make good paper towel pushers for pushing waded up paper towels thru tubes that need cleaning. Great parts hanger.
My strainer is for veggies and such but it has sifted bullet brass from cleaning material, recently separated the brass nuts for my outboard that I vibrated clean, used it to strain my black blaster media before it went into the pressure blaster, it will get used to help me unclump any of the soda blasting material before going into the soda blaster. Every once in a while I use it to strain a can of vegetables just to make the usage marks seem like they came from the kitchen.

And how many times have you asked your wife "why did you throw the tooth brush away ... you know I wanted it" and she just looks at you and shakes her head as she walks away....

 

[soggy_feet]

Re: Marriage advice needed for my recipe for disaster

I'll go from packing a bearing to eating a sandwich with only a wipe of the hands on my pant legs in between. Whats a little carb cleaner gonna hurt?

 

[accentphoto]

Re: Marriage advice needed for my recipe for disaster

Well apparently you didn't read the whole post ... I am the same way ... I have tasted a many a mechanical related things ... how else would we know if one drop on the concrete was a/c sweat or radiator fluid? Now I must admit ... the taste of crankcase oil ... yuck! (and don't ask how that even happened). When I grew up I thought everyone played with MEC and Toluene. Who had time for gloves when washing a car part ... just dive in that gasoline and swish those wheel bearings around and don't forget to spin them with two fingers holding it and the other one spinning it to see how proudly clean it was ... those were the good ole days. Thanks Dad for all of the mechanical memories that now I can't pass on to my kids due to some type of regulations. Boy did this just bring me back a bit. Those were the best times. Fixing your car yourself, rebuilding a motor yourself, dropping the transmission yourself and now we dare not even try to stick our hands in that little three inch opening to get to something on the motor.

 

[BosnBill]

Re: Marriage advice needed for my recipe for disaster

One of the funniest threads I've ever read, starting with your original post accentphoto and your followups.

This is real scuttlebutt, smart advice about nothing in particular. BTW, very clever conclusion to this baffling conundrum, accentphoto and brainy responses by everyone on this post, LOL!

 

[accentphoto]

Re: Marriage advice needed for my recipe for disaster

Glad I can humor you BosnBill. We probably need to come up with a new division of "what type of man are you?" which is kinda "you might be a redneck if ... ". So would men who just do what ever it takes to clean and fix something with no worries about what was used be "a real man's man", "not a momma's boy", "a get'r done man" or "just plain stupid man"... I'm fishing for ideas here so help me out. And, we need a good term for those who do it strictly by the books and wife (or momma for those who have not left the nest yet). So should some say I am a "book man", "rules man", "passive man", "running man", "not getting my hands dirty man" ... I can go on and on with this stuff. Personally I like "man's man" and "running man".

I feel I am a "man's man" category ... not to the point of insensitive to others but the kind that takes responsibility and steps up to the plate to fix the problems (for the family) even if I need to borrow the occasional cookware (to boil carbs). Point here is that once this boat is running my wife and kids (who are not helping and expect things to magically work) will be the ones enjoying the summer rides, fishing and skiing whereas I get to worry about safety, keeping the boat a float and paying for the oil and fuel.

Now I am not saying that "running man" is a bad category. Normally (IMO) it means that I can afford to take care of the problems thru someone else's hands. This way if a drop of hydraulic fluid touches my pavement I will not have to hire a EPA certified cleanup crew to quarantine the area and do the clean up. Kinda like those way over the hill corporations who hire a company to come in and quarantine an area when a 48" fluorescent tube is broken on a office floor (I am not kidding, they really do this).

Yesterday my 10yo son asked "dad, why does the US have the worlds most cases of asthma" (first think is I have not idea if its true but it led to this reply). Son, over time man has gotten overly protective and in a way spoiled to his environment. In the way that life in the desert evolved to survive the heat we as humans have learned to alter our environment as long as we are inside of our homes. We do not go outside as much, have our body used to temperature changes and enclose ourselves in homes that are probably worse for our health than being outside. Over time, the gene pool starts to change and adapt. In the past those who could not breath due to asthma or what ever did not survive so the genes were not passed on. Who knows ... maybe I would not be alive myself but I think I have hit the nail on the head with this one.

I think this is starting to sink in to my sons head now. Recently, he coughed and my wife went for the cough syrup and he said "no mom ... I don't need it". He stood his ground but as usual she won but atlas he tried. I was sooooo proud of him. Now I can't tell my wife that because she thinks I turn each child against her (why do all wives think this), whereas what I am really doing is teaching them about life skills and to stop waiting for everyone to do it for you. I hope I am not repeating myself... thanks again oh mighty forum readers ... life is good.

 

[BosnBill]

Re: Marriage advice needed for my recipe for disaster

Accentphoto, Ugg! That's Apache for yes. You are indeed a "running man" a true "running man" in the best sense of the coined term. You have taken hold of a man's responsibility for instructing and advising his son in the face of expected spousal and maternal admonition. A job well taught and I can guarantee it'll be a great summer in Carolina on the boat and the family won't have a concern or care about the responsibilities and burdens you bear as Cap, especially with those "cooked carbs". Congratulations to your son in following in his Dad's wake. Tell 'im Bos'n Bill said so. You can be proud of the role you have chosen, "Running Man"!

 

[fat fanny]

Re: Marriage advice needed for my recipe for disaster

Just act as clueless as usual. I'm with Don,S Boiling carbs!!!?