How gullible is your partner?

Talulah

Talulah

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I recently ordered some aluminium bits to repair the Conservatory roof. When I originally built it 15 years ago I did it on the cheap. I just used tape to seal across the roof panels but now it was leaking.
At the same time two new Genoa tracks arrived, each 3m long.
I told my wife they were more aluminium bits to fix the roof. All was well.
Having finished the roof my wife prompted me to put the remaining parts back into the Conservatory.
"Oh" I said. "You mean the Genoa tracks?" That's when the trouble started.
 
Talulah,

I've tried that sort of thing a few times, and always got found out in the end; funny how SWMBO's don't know a genoa from a traveller when asked to operate them, but have X-Ray vision like Bart Simpson viewing Christmas presents whenever something of technical almost pornogrraphic interest involving mechanisms ' not for them ' arrives in the post !!!
 
I was instructed by LadyOldBoots that I didn't need a new anchor because I already had two. The merit of an anchor debate with LadyOldBoots simply doesn't enter into any reality I know, so I just ordered my new kedge and hoped for the best. Fortunately the new bathroom turned into a minor disaster and she ignored the anchor as I struggled to fix the bathroom.

I then ordered a new bower anchor being safely in Saudi Arabia. The ploy was that she is very busy being a single Mum when I am away. I waited with anticipation for that Skype text "wtf do you need another new anchor for", the answer would just have been lost and was irrelevant anyway as far as LadyOldBoots is concerned. Fortunately, both the Hoover and Washing Machine cratered on my first week at work. I noticed an email from the Coop confirming Lady OldBoots's purchases of two new domestic devices. She made a passing comment the other day that another anchor had arrived and she will have to move it for the washing machine delivery. A result!

Is LadyOldBoots gullible? Not on your nelly. Am I fortuitous, not really, I still will have to pay the price at some future time but now I have two nice new anchors.
 
I recently ordered two new sails, my wife say the deposit payment on the bank statement. That's when the trouble started. Still in the doghouse. Next bit of trouble is when she finds out it is only the deposit .. eek
 
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Jill still thinks

Jill does not even know I am sailing around Britain

she still thinks I just keep moving the boat to find cheaper places to keep it

she also thinks that I changed boats to make it nicer for her


Dylan
 
I earn it, I spend it. It was two weeks before the daughter dropped me in it about buying a boat. All I got was "Is it nice and what engine has it got?" When I replied that it had sails the conversation sort of stopped there. Hasn't been mentioned again really.....she doesn't do "sails"

Yet on the other hand I didn't really mind her buying a new car.....works both ways
 
Just try not to remember any of this when the Daily Mail shrieks something like " Ultra Rich Sailor, Must Have Been a Billionaire, Found Floating Face Down With Biiliard Cue, - with imprints saying " I told you that boat was the last step ! " :rolleyes:
 
Mrs FC is now very knowledgeable, but on the other hand has rarely poo-poohed a prospective purchase of whizzy bits for boats, cars or bikes.
She told me to go and buy a toy car, as my boatbits estate is boring.
She didn't flinch when I told her my new to me Jag is having £2k lavished on it. Why? Because I bought here a Jag, and magnanimously had the suspension rebuilt out of my (our) pocket.

C90W waiting in the hall, to be fitted this winter. Well, it was a bargain love.

She is a keeper. Forever.
 
FullCircle said:
Mrs FC is now very knowledgeable, but on the other hand has rarely poo-poohed a prospective purchase of whizzy bits for boats, cars or bikes.
She told me to go and buy a toy car, as my boatbits estate is boring.
She didn't flinch when I told her my new to me Jag is having £2k lavished on it. Why? Because I bought here a Jag, and magnanimously had the suspension rebuilt out of my (our) pocket.

C90W waiting in the hall, to be fitted this winter. Well, it was a bargain love.

She is a keeper. Forever.
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She was a Minter :eek::eek::eek:
 
I ordered a new 0.75oz spinny during the boat show one year in readiness for Burnham Week.
Had it delivered to the office where it sat quietly for some months ready to be produced, as if out of a hat, to my adoring crew in readiness for said regatta.

Whole plan spoiled by my daughter who dropped into the office one day, noticed large launch bag, and after a few glasses some days later asked innocently over dinner how much the new sail had cost!

Cue touch of frost from the first Mrs D.
 
I have been very lucky with all my purchases, she just says if its for the boat then you may as well buy it, i kind of try to buy things she likes on the boat, then i get to buy what i like....

But i feel that a new kitchen might be in order quite soon, as i have had no complaints over the past 3 years with purchases for the boat....:D
 
When I get asked "what, something *else* for the boat?", I always reply that it is "essential safety gear. You wouldn't want to skimp in safety, would you, dear?". Usually works. Not sure for how much longer though...
 
When i first started seeing my fiancee, I told her that my car stereo was voice activated. She didn't realise that I was operating it from the buttons on the steering wheel.

"AUDIO MUTE" id yell, "AUDIO VOLUME INCREASE" etc, while my slight of hand did the business.

She borrowed the car some time after, reporting back that the voice activation didn't seem to work anymore.

I also told her that 'Cravendale' milk was pronounced as 'krav-on-delay' and came from switzerland.
 
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