Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do

[HenryJames 65890]

15 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

Wife is at HEB.  I had told her to get 2 pounds of the catfish filets that are on sale.

Of course, the phone just rang.

"These filets are pretty small."

"And?"

"Well, do you want me to get more of them?"

"No I want you to get 2 pounds, whether they're big or small."

"OK."

 

I wish I were making this up.

 

15 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

She's coming home with two small filets. 

She’s coming home with larger filets of a different fish.

[You don't know me 1161]

21 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

 

She’s coming home with larger filets of a different fish.

nah, 2 pounds of fish sticks.

[Whitman 694]

20 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

She’s coming home with larger filets of a different fish.

As well as twenty other items  that he already had in the pantry and not on any list. 

[T’Boo Ted Marshall 2724]

I've used the auto responder for texts while driving for a while now.  Wife knows this and I've told her numerous times to call if it can't wait until I get home.

At least once a week as I'm walking in the door she will ask if I got her texts.  

Tommy Lee Jones look...

[You don't know me 1161]

22 minutes ago, T’Boo Ted Marshall said:

I've used the auto responder for texts while driving for a while now.  Wife knows this and I've told her numerous times to call if it can't wait until I get home.

At least once a week as I'm walking in the door she will ask if I got her texts.  

Tommy Lee Jones look...

My wife will text me on my way home.  Auto-response is "I'm driving right now - I'll get back to you later."  I will then get what I assume is her auto-response of "I hate that message."

[crimsonlonghorn 2306]

Mrs CL keeps telling me something is wrong with her car. The bluetooth doesn't recognize her phone anymore and she has to keep answering on the handset.

I tell her to reset the phone. Then re-pair it with the car. She says she tried "EVERYTHING" and it won't work. 

She reminds me over the weekend about it so I get the keys to her car and go out to try and figure out what's going on.

She had bluetooth turned off on the phone. 

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

41 minutes ago, Whitman said:

As well as twenty other items  that he already had in the pantry and not on any list. 

Yeah! More dip packets! 

[AUS-97HORN 11682]

1 hour ago, crimsonlonghorn said:

Mrs CL keeps telling me something is wrong with her car. The bluetooth doesn't recognize her phone anymore and she has to keep answering on the handset.

I tell her to reset the phone. Then re-pair it with the car. She says she tried "EVERYTHING" and it won't work. 

She reminds me over the weekend about it so I get the keys to her car and go out to try and figure out what's going on.

She had bluetooth turned off on the phone. 

well, she tried EVERYTHING man, what the hell do you expect.  obviously its not as simple as the bluetooth being turned off!!!!!

 

-lol j/k   

 

obvious troubleshooting issue is obvious

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Cheeseweasel said:

Yeah! More dip packets! 

4 cans of ginger...for that one recipe we make 2-3x/ year.

Making shopping list?  Whatever you do, don’t look in the pantry first!!!

[TrashMaster G 17388]

18 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

Wife is at HEB.  I had told her to get 2 pounds of the catfish filets that are on sale.

Of course, the phone just rang.

"These filets are pretty small."

"And?"

"Well, do you want me to get more of them?"

"No I want you to get 2 pounds, whether they're big or small."

"OK."

 

I wish I were making this up.

This is about as On Point as a post can get on this thread.  Perfection.

[CycleTex87 2954]

My wife was bitchy this morning because "YOU (me) forgot to run the dishwasher last night!"  Told her that I set it up and left it ready to go on the timer before bed.  Of course the detergent was in the tray like I left it.  Of course its still my fault.  On the way to work this morning, she calls and says "I can't get any of the lights to come on on the control panel, somethings wrong".  So I'm thinking through the possibilities, and figuring out why/how this dishwasher hasn't lasted very long, when she calls back and says "the wall switch was off".  Oldest son must have hit the switch when he turned out the lights before he went to bed.  I'm waiting to see if she climbs up his backside when he gets home from work.

TL/DR - Wife didn't check the dishwasher wall switch and blames me for dirty dishes this morning.

[SilasCoade 2620]

Who put your dishwasher on a circuit controlled by a wall switch? That's the real stupid shit.

[AM Wood 335]

21 minutes ago, Llogg said:

Who put your dishwasher on a circuit controlled by a wall switch? That's the real stupid shit.

this still baffles me. i can see the water having a shut off under the sink, but wtf?

[HouTex 1850]

27 minutes ago, Llogg said:

Who put your dishwasher on a circuit controlled by a wall switch? That's the real stupid shit.

My home (built in 2015) came this way.  Must be a reason.

[G650 14107]

48 minutes ago, Llogg said:

Who put your dishwasher on a circuit controlled by a wall switch? That's the real stupid shit.

I think there was a whole 20 pages of the last wives thread dedicated to this.

 

I've also never seen it and think its fucking idiotic btw.

[AM Wood 335]

21 minutes ago, G650 said:

I think there was a whole 20 pages of the last wives thread dedicated to this.

 

I've also never seen it and think its fucking idiotic btw.

was there a viable explanation?

[Sandman 3402]

42 minutes ago, HouTex said:

My home (built in 2015) came this way.  Must be a reason.

My old house (built in 1954) had a light switch that cut off all the power in that bedroom. Stupid.

[G650 14107]

21 minutes ago, AM Wood said:

was there a viable explanation?

Not that I recall.

[Trey3216 15325]

20 minutes ago, Sandman said:

My old house (built in 1954) had a light switch that cut off all the power in that bedroom. Stupid.

And no doubt, the wife would turn that switch, thereby cutting off the essential bliss of the ceiling fan  

[Stoogey 219]

37 minutes ago, Sandman said:

My old house (built in 1954) had a light switch that cut off all the power in that bedroom. Stupid.

There's a triple switch in my living room, one of which turns off the outlet for the television set. Can't tell you how many times during the 1980s I had to reset the clock and programming on the VCR because my wife flipped the wrong switch.   

[PilotsError 2282]

I've lived in old and new houses and have never lived in one that DIDN'T have the dishwasher power on a switch above it.  

[Sandman 3402]

46 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

And no doubt, the wife would turn that switch, thereby cutting off the essential bliss of the ceiling fan  

I wised up quick, put some tape on the switch. Then I turned that room into the kids' playroom and avoided it all together.

[AM Wood 335]

24 minutes ago, PilotsError said:

I've lived in old and new houses and have never lived in one that DIDN'T have the dishwasher power on a switch above it.  

do you have any idea why? maybe it was some sort of stupid ass code requirement.

[Jameslaw121 4445]

I have a wall switch that controls an outlet. I guess you can plug a lamp in it and turn the light off and on that way. But the switch is in a completely different room than the outlet in controls. That outlet was the one I used for our deep freezer. Guess how I found out that that switch controlled  that outlet.........

[Incredulity 11555]

33 minutes ago, PilotsError said:

I've lived in old and new houses and have never lived in one that DIDN'T have the dishwasher power on a switch above it.  

I have lived in 68, 79, 85, 94, 02, 09 and several condos/apts of varying vintage and have never seen it. 

[Pato del Muerto 52342]

I’ve lived in several places with it I’m guessing it’s because the outlet is hidden and not easily accessible, so you either need to have it on its own breaker or on a switch to de-energize the dishwasher quickly, like the water pump is stuck on or something like that. 

[CycleTex87 2954]

I'm considering the tape idea.

[Upgrayedd 5806]

Hardwired appliances need a disconnect switch

[G650 14107]

22 minutes ago, Upgrayedd said:

Hardwired appliances need a disconnect switch

[ABSR 5289]

1 hour ago, Stoogey said:

There's a triple switch in my living room, one of which turns off the outlet for the television set. Can't tell you how many times during the 1980s I had to reset the clock and programming on the VCR because my wife flipped the wrong switch.   

If you are not going to have it rewired, then for any of these weird switch issues you should put tape over the switch in the on position.   If they break the tape to turn off the power then you can add it to this thread, otherwise this is on you.

[AM Wood 335]

29 minutes ago, Upgrayedd said:

Hardwired appliances need a disconnect switch

for what porpoise?

 

[AM Wood 335]

22 minutes ago, ABSR said:

If you are not going to have it rewired, then for any of these weird switch issues you should put tape over the switch in the on position.   If they break the tape to turn off the power then you can add it to this thread, otherwise this is on you.

.... or, if you don't live in a trailer you can always open the box and unwire that switch.

Edited August 20, 2018 by AM Wood

[crimsonlonghorn 2306]

Dishwashers are wired to wall switches because they are typically hardwired onto 110V shared circuits and you can't just unplug it like a refrigerator. 

Much safer for a plumber or some other repairman to work on it without it being energized (and wet) and much easier and convenient to do that with a regular wall switch than going outside and flipping the breaker for the whole kitchen. 

[AM Wood 335]

20 minutes ago, crimsonlonghorn said:

Dishwashers are wired to wall switches because they are typically hardwired onto 110V shared circuits and you can't just unplug it like a refrigerator. 

Much safer for a plumber or some other repairman to work on it without it being energized (and wet) and much easier and convenient to do that with a regular wall switch than going outside and flipping the breaker for the whole kitchen. 

this sounds super convenient for the never amount of times most people will need that convenience.

[G650 14107]

28 minutes ago, crimsonlonghorn said:

Dishwashers are wired to wall switches because they are typically hardwired onto 110V shared circuits and you can't just unplug it like a refrigerator. 

Much safer for a plumber or some other repairman to work on it without it being energized (and wet) and much easier and convenient to do that with a regular wall switch than going outside and flipping the breaker for the whole kitchen. 

[NeverMarryAStripper 21781]

1 hour ago, AM Wood said:

was there a viable explanation?

I believe that electrical code requires a dishwasher to have an accessible disconnect.  This can be accomplished by having it wired through a GFCI switch.

[Stoogey 219]

22 minutes ago, ABSR said:

If you are not going to have it rewired, then for any of these weird switch issues you should put tape over the switch in the on position.   If they break the tape to turn off the power then you can add it to this thread, otherwise this is on you.

Way ahead of you. My house is almost one hundred years old. Not as easy as it sounds. Replacements parts such as fuses were getting hard to find. Whenever I went to a small town with an old hardware store I'd buy all the fuses. (Pre-internet.) Had circuit breakers installed twenty-some years ago to replace assorted fuse boxes and switches that looked like they came out of Dr Frankenstein's lab. Also had the cloth-insulation wiring and wall switches replaced to bring things up to code.

The switch looked something like this:



My power goes out two or three times a year so I still have the infinite pleasure of resetting the microwave oven clock.

[G650 14107]

29 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

I believe that electrical code requires a dishwasher to have an accessible disconnect.  This can be accomplished by having it wired through a GFCI switch.

My general feeling from this interlude and the 10,000 words from the Shag is that it is a somewhat obscure code in localities in parts of Texas and southwest areas given the majority of people are mystified by this. Personally I have lived in several states on both coasts in all sorts of vintages of house and have never seen anything remotely like it. I'm also a contractor. 

[tbone_ 14025]

Way ahead of you. My house is almost one hundred years old. Not as easy as it sounds. Replacements parts such as fuses were getting hard to find. Whenever I went to a small town with an old hardware store I'd buy all the fuses. (Pre-internet.) Had circuit breakers installed twenty-some years ago to replace assorted fuse boxes and switches that looked like they came out of Dr Frankenstein's lab. Also had the cloth-insulation wiring and wall switches replaced to bring things up to code.

The switch looked something like this:



My power goes out two or three times a year so I still have the infinite pleasure of resetting the microwave oven clock.

That’s bad ass

[tbone_ 14025]

My general feeling from this interlude and the 10,000 words from the Shag is that it is a somewhat obscure code in localities in parts of Texas and southwest areas given the majority of people are mystified by this. Personally I have lived in several states on both coasts in all sorts of vintages of house and have never seen anything remotely like it. I'm also a contractor. 

Just because you are a contractor does that mean you think you know more about this than our resident stripper expert?

[G650 14107]

23 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

 

Just because you are a contractor does that mean you think you know more about this than our resident stripper expert?

 

Not in the least. 

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

Electricians and the stupid way they wire houses?

[Upgrayedd 5806]

24 minutes ago, G650 said:

My general feeling from this interlude and the 10,000 words from the Shag is that it is a somewhat obscure code in localities in parts of Texas and southwest areas given the majority of people are mystified by this. Personally I have lived in several states on both coasts in all sorts of vintages of house and have never seen anything remotely like it. I'm also a contractor. 

I don't believe that a breaker panel counts as a means of disconnect unless the panel is in the kitchen or has a breaker lock.  

[tbone_ 14025]

As a developer (meaning I can’t actually build shit) for a couple of decades, the one thing I have learned is that you can ask 10 guys the same code question and you’ll always get at least 14 different answers.

 

[G650 14107]

30 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

As a developer (meaning I can’t actually build shit) for a couple of decades, the one thing I have learned is that you can ask 10 guys the same code question and you’ll always get at least 14 different answers.

 

14 is on the low side.

[G650 14107]

43 minutes ago, Upgrayedd said:

I don't believe that a breaker panel counts as a means of disconnect unless the panel is in the kitchen or has a breaker lock.  

No, it doesnt. Most places dont requitlre a disconnect. @NeverMarryAStripper is right that a GFCI counts usually though. My dishwasher goes through one I know. My refrigerator however doesn't. 

[TrashMaster G 17388]

Electrical talk not going away

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

1 hour ago, crimsonlonghorn said:

Dishwashers are wired to wall switches because they are typically hardwired onto 110V shared circuits and you can't just unplug it like a refrigerator. . 

[miguelito 11220]

Anyway....

 

We made a big drive through west Texas, including Big Bend.  I took the scenic route from Presidio to Lajitas to see DOM.

In Presidio, she asks: "Is it safe to assume that most of the people who live here are Hispanic?"

 

I laughed all the way back to Alpine.

[Kennythetiger 9335]

3 hours ago, Stoogey said:

There's a triple switch in my living room, one of which turns off the outlet for the television set. Can't tell you how many times during the 1980s I had to reset the clock and programming on the VCR because my wife flipped the wrong switch.   

We had one of these when I was a kid.  My dad covered it in tape and told my mom and us kids to "keep your damned hands off the one with tape".