Blog Every Day in May – Day 2 – Something I am good at
I asked Mr Point Five what my greatest talent was – after all, he should know right??
Without skipping a beat, he says “nagging”
I actually have done a blog post before about my nagging talent so here is todays post, pillaged and revamped.
Here is what Mr Point Five coins as nagging. It starts as a simple request.
For example, the bin is full to overflowing, it is 4pm and I am about to start cooking dinner.
He starts work at 5pm. The conversation goes something like this.
Me: Honey can you please take the rubbish out? Its full and I have tied the bag.
(before you say I should have taken it out myself, the rubbish is one of the FEW household chores that we both agree is Mr Point Fives job)
Honey: sure – on my way to work.
Me: are you sure? The bin is full, I am about to add more with cooking dinner and I have started another bag on top.
Honey: yep – gonna have a shower and then I will take it on my
way to work. Please dont nag me – you know I hate that.
Me: OK – but now I have put your beers in the fridge and have filled up the beer carton on top as well.
Honey: OK! I understand – no need to remind me! I told you I will take it out on my way out the door! Grrrrrr!!!
(that’s a Grrr from him to me btw)
Look what I noticed 5 minutes after hubby had left for work.
Bloody Men!
And they wonder WHY we nag!
Just do the simple fecking REQUEST the FIRST time and we won’t ever NAG you!!
I am willing to bet the sheep station that EVERY single woman attached to a man has a bin story like this.
In fact my darling nag-ee actually turned around one day and told me that if I kept nagging at him to do stuff over and over again then he just wouldn’t do it at all. I think my mouth fell open, catching flies. I stifled the urge to fall about laughing. What is the word I am looking for? Ironic? No…..plain fecking obvious is what that statement is!
Women are damned if they nag and left doing everything else if they don’t.
Totally agree if they just did the first time we asked …passive aggressive response is to push our buttons and make us wait.
He was actually waiting for you to put everything else in another bag, sort the recycling and then make it so he only had to do one trip out on the way to work. See, you just didn’t do it right! Did you just feel like throwing yourself on the floor?