My husband and I live in northern California, and every few years we experience a pretty nasty weather cycle. One winter, in preparation for one of these tempests, knowing we were going to lose power overnight, I asked him to go get some candles.
My husband is an Eagle Scout, an expert survivalist, and very very smart. I figured the “candles” instruction was explicit enough.
When I got home from work what did I find on our dining table? 300 tealights. When I asked him what he was thinking he said, “I figured 300 for $5 was a better deal than 5 for $30.” And I replied, “This is a natural disaster, not a seance.”
I went out into the rain, returned the tealights, and bought 5 candles for $30. So annoying.
HA HA HA, too funny, and too typical!
Hey, sounds romantic, at least!
I understand that, my husband went and picked out five potatoes at Kroger one time for $3.00. Yeah, you can get a whole 5 lb bag for the same price.
I think one of the most annoying things about my husband was when we were first married and we were really needing to watch our pennies–and by the way he is a SUCKER for any “deal” or sales pitch. I came home one day to his “being so proud of himself” for buying a $70 bottle of purple windex-stuff that was supposed to clean everything. I could throw away every cleaner I had in the house because this new magical cleaner was our answer to everything and what a deal!!! OMG I could have wrung his neck. And, you can guess–it didn’t do anything more than windex, maybe even less. Grrrrrrr…..
Hide the checkbook
ROFL – my husband is not allowed in the grocery store for this reason alone. Apparently it’s just to overwhelming.
I have been married for 20 years, and I really think that my husband is annoying. I don’t know if it’s because of the years we have been together, but it is so annyoing now. He screams for no apparent reason and I ignore him. He pretends not to care when he is dying for me to respond to his screams. Then he forgets about it and acts as if nothing happened.
Diana, that does sound annoying. Good job going 20 years.
Confused. Isn’t 300 teatree lights romantic and sexy?
I mean there’s not much else to do during a power outage right?
Thank you for making me laugh out loud. (And no, to Athol, it’s not romantic or sexy – nor is it practical during a power outage to have 300 tea lights and no real candles to walk around in the dark with.)
So funny! I seriously laughed out loud at this story. This is definitely something my husband would do.
My fiance is really bad at the grocery store. Meat prices here in California have gone up and he will scrutinize every detail of the price of the meat. There are some weeks where we don’t buy meat because he deems it as too expensive. My thought is if we need to buy it, then buy it. It’s like not buying toilet paper because its too expensive! LOL
so funny, I’m crying. It would’ve been a very romantic disaster.
You could’ve had a lot of light for a good..hour.