Things I wish I hadn’t done....

[Tim1023]

@GrandPaBrogan I'm not into one-upmanship, but I really can go one better than your iron. My wife loves gardening and she was complaining one day about how hard it was to get the fallen leaves out from the plants without damaging the plants. Same again the next day. So with Xmas coming up I resolved to solve this problem for her. I spent hours researching solutions and then prowling the shops looking at leaf blowers and suckers. Money no object. I bought this combined blower and sucker and had it delivered to a mate's house. His wife loved the secrecy and had tipped off my wife that something big and probably expensive was being hidden at her place, but that she couldn't possibly say any more.

The big day came and to say that she was disappointed was an exaggeration. She hid it well from the kids, but I could tell. She never used it. I used it once or twice to show willing, but it's still in the garage - probably full of spiders by now.

Her mate was disgusted and said so to her husband and then I got the piss ripped out of me down the pub. Word spread and I got odd looks from other women, yet strangely sympathetic ones from their husbands.

That's one thing I learned at a young age from my mother: "No household goods". This lesson has served me well.

 

[GrandPaBrogan]

That's one thing I learned at a young age from my mother: "No household goods". This lesson has served me well.

I wonder if us fathers should teach our daughters to NOT to buy their special man any neckties, socks, handkerchiefs, perfume and moisturisers... as gifts? As a rule, “No refined articles - just tools, implements, or hardware vouchers.” ?

And oh, and definitely NO singing fish, because we’re not worried and we’re already happy! ?