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Let’s play.

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Because we don’t play enough these days.

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My husband and I are very different people who have different likes and styles. We were raised differently, in different types of families with different backgrounds in different eras. And while most of our differences compliment each other and enhance our strength as a couple… there are times when the differences can rub up against my last nerve.

( I’m sure he can say the same, but hey… this is my blog. 😉 )

I was born an only child of older parents. They were quiet, well educated people who rarely watched television. Our home was peaceful. My husband had 8 siblings, an alcoholic father and a volatile upbringing. It was anything but peaceful.

I’m a reader. I like quiet.

My husband is a tv watcher. He likes noise.

So much so, that he turns the damn thing on and leaves the room with it blaring away. And mind you, he doesn’t just leave the room… at times he leaves the house and our property altogether. The man will turn on the tv, and then go get gas, or go out to breakfast… with the tv still on.

It’s a little thing in the grand scheme of life… but it drives me nuts.

Turn. Off. The. Television!

How about you?

What does your significant other do that drives you crazy….

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43 thoughts on “Let’s play.”

  1. My ex could take something simple and turn it into a baffling ordeal. I once watched her at a coke machine with a couple of dollar bills and it took her four minutes of feeding the money in, having it fall out, having the wind take it until my ex caught up and the cycle would continue…

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  2. Mine doesn’t notice or care how anything looks. Stuff for projects are left around, clothes are practical only, everything is in disarray. And he has disdain for others who do care about looks, like that should be beneath a healthy intellect. It drives this healthy intellect up a wall.

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      2. I don’t understand. I have forgotten most of what I knew in the Navy but I can still fold a towel just right. Not bad for a third class swabby officer. The man has things on his mind.

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    2. We’d be having a fight over this. I know because I’ve had it. There’s no right or wrong way because you don’t have all the same dishes to wash every time. If the dishes fit in the box and come out clean, then victory is mine. If not, there are paper plates and solo cups. Just don’t try to eat a steak with a spork.

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    1. When I first married mine he left the radio on at night. Next to the bed. That was a hard no and I ditched it. Now he often falls asleep on the couch with the tv on… but at least I can’t hear it in the bedroom.

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  6. Woop-Woop, I have no partner to do anything annoying to me (and vice versa) so I’m all good. But, I will say that my stupid ex-husband would mispronounce words because he’s sound them out the way they were spelled. For example, he’s say Potpourri as Pot-Porry or the last name Buchanan as Bucha-nan. Oh and lets not for get that for about seven years I had a 1986 White Pontiac Grand Prix LE, it was beautiful, I loved that car. Anyway, we’d go to AutoZone to buy something for the car and he’s pronounce it Grant Pricks…..ugh.

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  7. Cathy refuses to endorse the fair application of the Winchester rule. If you watched Supernatural, a really great show, then you know what I’m talking about. For the rest of you, here it is: “The driver picks the music, the passenger shuts his pie hole.” Not this driver, not that passenger.
    It’s roughly seventeen hours driving from Weaverville, NC to Portland, ME and she drove the whole way with Rob Zombie and the Sisters of Mercy.
    The good(?) news is she’s not the only one, it’s everyone. If they don’t like the music they just feel free to bitch about it until they have beaten all the joy out of it and I concede. I love these people but I don’t love that.

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  8. Oh, the TV thing would kill me and I grew up with more than 8 siblings. I like quiet because I was raised in chaos. My husband doesn’t put things away and I like things tidy. He’s super handy, but he’ll finish a project and have a beer and then leave tools, packaging, and debris int he middle of the living room.

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      1. Not a male thing – whether you mean the background noise (I go around the house turning off radios in rooms that no one is in) or leaving stuff lying around (I once cleared off the dining room table – all of it was my wife’s stuff – when we had folks coming for dinner and she hadn’t gotten around to moving it. I put it all in a box in the basement with the date on it (9/29/13 – it’s still there) and let her know that’s what I was doing, as she didn’t want me to throw any of it away), or leaving cupboards open (she’s short enough that she wouldn’t hit her head on them).

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  11. While I disappoint her often, I don’t think anything we do drives each other crazy. She has to control the TV remote, but most of the time that’s ok. We have PVR so sometimes I want to back up to see something again. She sees everything the first time so she explains what I missed. Backing up would be easier, since we watch most things on Memorex, as we call it — tape it and watch it when we want to.
    She could probably write a book. I have never had good hearing or eyesight, so we don’t see or hear things the same way. Glasses don’t help me much, and hearing aids are uncomfortable. But we both adapted a long time ago. Mostly we shut up and smile.

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  12. Oh gosh, it would take me years to list all the ways I am different from my hubby. My television is in the kitchen and I watch it while washing dishes, the laundry, cooking and answering emails. Which means it’s mostly background noise!

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  13. My SO steps on my boobs… but it’s a cat.

    I’ve done the tv thing(left it on when I ran an errand) but the volume is always low… can’t be heard from the next room. Leaving it on is usually because it’s a quick errand and I can’t find a remote – my tv can’t be turned off without on (zero buttons on the tv itself).

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  15. My husband does the same thing! He needs the tv, radio or noise and I prefer quiet. And yes, he does leave with the TV and /or a talk show on to give the indication we are still in the house. Drives me crazy. On the other hand, I change my outfit several times a day depending on work, work out, walking, going out, etc. and when I am at work his turn to do the laundry. I know he wonders how many clothes can one wear?

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