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When I'm working 6 days a week and 20 min before I get off work, on my wife's day off, she asks me to stop at the store to pick some stuff up and grab some food at a drive through on my way home.
 
Gameface said:
When I'm working 6 days a week and 20 min before I get off work, on my wife's day off, she asks me to stop at the store to pick some stuff up and grab some food at a drive through on my way home.
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I don't know why, but after all this time on JFC with you, I just CANNOT imagine you as a married guy. I have no idea why.
 
fishonjazz said:
You think he lives out in the country or something?
Lol, what a strange phrase to use.
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Haha yeah you're right. I'm used to saying it bc I live out in the country. What I meant was, he's already out of the house, just about leaving work. I don't see it as a big deal, but I don't get annoyed easily either, so clearly gameface and I are quite different.
 
JustTheTip said:
Probly cause you're already in town.
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I work pretty close to my house, about 5 miles away. There is a large shopping center less than 1/2 mile from my house (Jordan Landing).

It'd be one thing if sometimes she had gone out to get food and had some waiting for me, or made food, or whatever. That's not the case. It's not like 4 out of 5 times she's taken care of it and I'm complaining about the one time I have to do something.

There are times when she goes out and gets food for herself and our kid. Sometimes if she doesn't eat all of hers she'll offer me the leftovers.

But then she's perfectly comfortable asking me to pick something up for all of us when she hasn't left the house all day.

And if she spent any time like cleaning the kitchen or anything else at all I wouldn't complain, but working six days a week I'm the only one in my house who has done a load of dishes in the last two months. And typically I'm doing the dishes easily 10:1 or 20:1, it's hard to say. It's not like she never ever ever does the dishes, but I'd say it's less than 10 times a year.

And I've shown some of the cooking I do. I make my own lunches for the week and I also usually make a from scratch family dinner every weekend. If she makes dinner it's usually for her and our kid while I'm at work and it's Ragu spaghetti sauce and noodles or something from the freezer.

Do I throw fits and act like a jerk to her? No, I make a post in the stupid pet peeves thread and move on with life. But you act like I'm an angry person just nitpicking every little thing.

I let all this **** slide. All I do is make a post in this thread about the certain things that I don't like. That's how angry I am.

If you knew me you'd know I'm a positive person and generally pleasant to be around. The people I've worked closest with have always enjoyed working with me.

This thread is my therapy.
 
I get what you're saying, and venting out here is better than acting out...and I don't wanna sound like a jerk, but I think you're building up a lot of resentment issues. If it was me, I would talk to my wife about it. Maybe you have, idk, it's really probably not my place to tell you what to do either. I do hope that it all gets better for you.
 
Not a pet peeve, but a funny story I thought I'd share (also, I possibly shared this story before. Don't remember).

I used to work with a Utah County hardcore LDS guy in his 60s. One time, he looked shaken up and withdrawn. I asked him what was up, and he said:

"On my way to work, I saw this kid. He was dressed in black, and he had a pentagram on his shirt. Our eyes met, and he went 'hail Satan'. My heart dropped because I knew he was a solider of the devil, and that the army of God will have to fight him and people like him soon".

I told him it was just a goth teenager trolling him. But he insisted that he could feel the evil in his heart, and that if I had accepted the light of Christ, I would have known the same thing.

So, I guess stupid people are a pet peeve of mine?
 
LogGrad98 said:
The M used to commonly be used to represent thousands (Roman numerals). So MM is 1000 thousands which is millions. I know because my dad used to use this and he had a hard time getting used to K for thousands. Which actually isn't entirely correct either of you think about it.
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doesn't k mean 1000 and m is the inverse (.001)
like a kilometer is 1000 meters and a millimeter is 1/1000 of a meter
same thing with grams - kg is kilograms (1000 grams) and mg is milligrams (.001 grams)

And Roman numerals aren't the same as the metric system so that's why m in Roman Numerals is different than m in the metric system
 
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