Little games you and your SO play, but DENY that you do...

ORIGINAL: TheSchmee

Chris and I play the "Stack the trash as high as you can so the other person will have to take it out," sometimes.

We play that one as well. I always end up doing it though. Once it's completely full, she'll just start stacking things on the counter. [:@] I can't stand that, and she knows it. And the clothes too. I don't mind washing the clothes, but I hate folding them. She has enough clothes to go for weeks without washing, but I only have enough to go a few days. It's supposed to be her job to wash the clothes, but for some reason I always find myself doing it. Dang it.

Probably the most amusing one is the "I know your back there spooning me and expecting me to be awake...but I'm not awake....well I am but not awake enough to be interested in what you're proposing...but I reserve the right to be interested at a later date...when I can be in charge of the invitation.." game. LMAO.

 
LMAO!  DH is is the KING of pretending he isn't awake.. I let him "think" that I believe it though []
 

  She has enough clothes to go for weeks without washing, but I only have enough to go a few days. It's supposed to be her job to wash the clothes, but for some reason I always find myself doing it. Dang it

 
We have this SAME problem.. so we solved it and now we EACH do our own laundry... if one of us happens to have extra room in the load then we might ask the other person if they want to toss in a couple items, but for the most part we don't do eachothers...only our own.You might want to try it! []

ORIGINAL: rwbeagles

Probably the most amusing one is the "I know your back there spooning me and expecting me to be awake...but I'm not awake....well I am but not awake enough to be interested in what you're proposing...but I reserve the right to be interested at a later date...when I can be in charge of the invitation.." game. LMAO.

 
Hehe. Love this one. Frustrates hubby to no end. I'll have to show him this thread, so he knows that other women do it, too![]

There's a good reson my DH's nickname is "Pokey" and that's all I'm gonna say! [sm=lol.gif]   [sm=proud.gif]

ORIGINAL: Xerxes
There are special games that Stella and I engage in, but this is an "all age" forum, as I'm finding out.[]

 
Please Ed, spare us the details.  []

Probably the most amusing one is the "I know your back there spooning me and expecting me to be awake...but I'm not awake....well I am but not awake enough to be interested in what you're proposing...but I reserve the right to be interested at a later date...when I can be in charge of the invitation.." game. LMAO.

 
 
Yeah, I usually get up and pretend my bladder will bust if I don't use the bathroom right away, and then straight to making coffee........I want to be a good wife and serve up his favorite coffee.....[sm=proud.gif][]

ORIGINAL: rwbeagles

There's a good reson my DH's nickname is "Pokey" and that's all I'm gonna say! [sm=lol.gif] [sm=proud.gif]

*dies!*

I thought Ed said this was an all-ages forum! But yes, we play that game too. Though as I've gotten older I've just gotten more direct about batting his hands away rather than pretending to be asleep. Seriously, when I went to bed at 10, you might have gotten somewhere. Now that you're finally coming to bed and it's 1 AM and I've been asleep for 3 hours? Sorry. The window of opportunity has closed, and I was just having fantastic dreams about eating samosas with Hugh Laurie, and there's no possible way you can compete with that!

We have fairly delineated rules about what jobs are who's so as to avoid these games, becuase witout that system, we'd be up to our eyeballs in dirty dishes and laundry standing around both pretending we don't see them.

I thought Ed said this was an all-ages forum

 
Totally....that's why I was talking about Gumby...silly []

ORIGINAL: rwbeagles

Probably the most amusing one is the "I know your back there spooning me and expecting me to be awake...but I'm not awake....well I am but not awake enough to be interested in what you're proposing...but I reserve the right to be interested at a later date...when I can be in charge of the invitation.." game. LMAO.

 
Have your DH email me.  I will tell him how to deal with this.  []

ORIGINAL: houndlove
Seriously, when I went to bed at 10, you might have gotten somewhere. Now that you're finally coming to bed and it's 1 AM and I've been asleep for 3 hours? Sorry. The window of opportunity has closed, and I was just having fantastic dreams about eating samosas with Hugh Laurie, and there's no possible way you can compete with that!

[sm=rotfl.gif] Cressida! You just made me spew water out of my nose!

We play "stack the trash" and the "spooning game" here as well. We also have a rule that whichever one of us has the bags is the one who cleans up after Ben on his walk. I have been known to overload my pockets with random stuff I don't need for a walk and then sneak the bags into his jacket without him knowing. When it comes time for cleanup I say "sorry, you have the bags, my pockets were full". []

Kate

ORIGINAL: Cita
I can't really think of any, as we don't have our own place yet. And honestly, my BF is much much better about sucking it up and doing the un-fun things like washing dishes, so I feel guilty that I'm not as good-hearted as he is and end up helping a lot more than I would have if I were on my own. Maybe that's a game he plays with me - guilt trip the lazy girl into getting off her butt! []

thats how my husband trained me.... i used to be  the You-clean-up-your-mess-i'll-clean-up-my-own type.....
i had a room mate that lived in utter filth and nastiness, her cats used to take a dump outside MY bedroom door if she forgot to clean the box, but MY room was clean all the time!
 But when i met my husband - we started out as just room mates haha- he told me that since it was his house, and i was just renting the room, that everything was ultimately his responsibility.... It only took one night of us both cooking a huge dinner and then him getting up to clean right afterwards that he had me trained....

Of course the diaper changing games never cease to amuse.... "You had him last, you change him!" or the best one yet.... "You fed him Chili Cheese Fries.. YOU can change him!"

The other game we play is "Your family doesnt know i'm joking so i'm gonna be a complete chauvinistic pig"
my aunt was ready to brain him because he told me in front of her that i could not get a haircut..ever..

and RW... yeah he does the horizontal hokey pokey game too....

The other game.. if you want to call it that is .. the "I'm the man so i get to sleep closest to the door incase of X problem"
of course last summer we were living with my mom. our bed was pushed against one of the walls so i had to climb over him two or three times a night to go take care of the baby.... this went on for a few weeks before i snapped.... finally i started kicking him awake as i was climbing over him "Oops, sorry honey.... you sure you dont want to sleep next to the wall?" When i was feeling particularly mean spirited i would ignore the baby, pretend to be asleep.. my husband would wake up and say something about the crying baby.... then eventually go check on him himself.....

Kate, I really did actually have that dream once! The alarm woke me up though, not DH poking me. I was highly disappointed, regardless.

We have this SAME problem.. so we solved it and now we EACH do our own laundry... if one of us happens to have extra room in the load then we might ask the other person if they want to toss in a couple items, but for the most part we don't do eachothers...only our own.You might want to try it!

Oh, I've threatened it. The thing is, my apartment is pretty small. So all of our clothes go into the same hamper to save space. So I would have to sift through all of her clothes anyway to sort mine out. By that time, might as well just wash em. I admit, she is taking more hours then me so technically, I shouldn't be as busy. I have other things that I do though. In my free time, I'm either working with Max or I'm doing my PR stuff for the fraternity. She plays Tri-Peaks for hours at a time. [8|]

ORIGINAL: snownose
Yeah, I usually get up and pretend my bladder will bust if I don't use the bathroom right away, and then straight to making coffee........I want to be a good wife and serve up his favorite coffee.....[sm=proud.gif][]

 
Ummmmm, let me sell you a clue.  There ARE more important things than coffee.  []

Seriously, when I went to bed at 10, you might have gotten somewhere. Now that you're finally coming to bed and it's 1 AM and I've been asleep for 3 hours? Sorry. The window of opportunity has closed,

 
Exactly!