rwbeagles-Apparently it starts really early!

ahhhh!! lol!!!

This will be my little kid! My BF looks for TWO SECONDS somewhere like "IDK WHERE THIS IS HUNNY!!!!" so0o0o frustraiting lol

Thank god I have photographic memory... hahaha I will be the finder of all lost things in the family :o)

The saddest thing is that is apparently a dominant trait because my daughter is like this too! I will ask her to find something I know I saw in her room (which by the way, most times resembles a build a bear workshop where a pipe bomb has gone off....), she will walk in...stand in the middle of the room...scan and say 'I can't find it, Mommy'.

Genetic...dominant...and frustrating LOL.

What I find equally interesting is that he knew to ask a woman where something was.  Seems all men think ovaries allow a person to find anything anytime anywhere.  Which is weird considering how men won't ask for directions if they've been lost for 30 minutes, but will ask a woman if they can't find something in 3 seconds. 

That is RIGHT...what an interesting concept that is...something to have a good cogitate about for sure!

lol oh gosh I can't wait for the genetic dominant geeeene...

hahaha so true about the men asking women...

Too true, but with my DH it also flairs up when I ask him to put stuff away -- most things make it 50% of the way to their destination. It drives me nuts!
 

LOL - my DH doesn't actually know where things go when he's putting stuff away so he picks somewhere new.  This makes cooking very difficult after he has unloaded the dishwasher!

 Funny story - we were driving around one time and he was taking the "scenic route".  I mentioned that I knew how to get to our destination and, out of sheer stubborness, he stopped the car to get his GPS thingy out of the trunk.  Rather than actually ask me, he wasted 20 minutes getting and setting up his Garmin.  Can anyone say....stubborn?

VanMorrison

he stopped the car to get his GPS thingy out of the trunk.  Rather than actually ask me, he wasted 20 minutes getting and setting up his Garmin.

Oh have I seen that one - I hate those GPS things for this reason ( well and of course the dumb voice saying turn around at your earliest convenience)  We've been late to multiple things ( as a native NYer there aren't many more serious transgressions) due to setting up the GPS

Oh and as for not finding things and asking you well I'm currently on strike from tidying up after him so he either can't find it or Bugsy's stolen it LOL 

Pit_Pointer_Aussie

most things make it 50% of the way to their destination. It drives me nuts!

OMG I know!  I cannot let DH sit anything down somewhere it doesn't belong.  It will be there FOREVER!  And then he'll come ask me where it is, supposedly after looking.  (I'm thinking looking at the ceiling b/c usually it's right in front of his face, but he *doesn't see* it).  Then I say "it's where you left it" and then he know RIGHT where it is....WTH?

ETA: I'm on strike from picking up after him too, but I think that frustrates me more, b/c seeing that *insert misplaced item here* sitting there over and over b/c he constantly *forgets* to get it, annoys each time I look at it 

VanMorrison

LOL - my DH doesn't actually know where things go when he's putting stuff away so he picks somewhere new.  This makes cooking very difficult after he has unloaded the dishwasher!

Hint:  They do this on purpose.  This way, we don't ask.  I realized this when we moved into this house.  BF HAD to be the one to organize the kitchen.... I've organized the last two and he figured it looked fun apparently.  So I KNOW he knows where everything goes.  And yet, if I ask him to put the dishes away, its,"Where does this go?", "Where should I put this?"

I do find it funny that I can hide his coat under a facecloth in the middle of the living room floor and he would never find it, but hiding birthday presents in the back of the closet, under the camping stuff, in the same box as the Christmas Tree decorations, gets found accidentally.  And if I hang the dishtowel up to dry on the handle of the oven, it just dissappears!  WHA?  WHERE'D IT GO!?  Its obviously not an obscure enough location. 

Men are a strange species!  My DH called me into our room last night ans asked "What happened to the bed covers"  The dogs had been playing on the bed and the covers were on the floor.  I told him what happened and I asked him why he didn't just fix the covers.  He replied "I don't know how."  Please tell me that I didn't hear that!  He cannot simply pull the covers back over the bed but he CAN run a chainsaw and cut down trees.  I wanted to choke him!  He's also bad about putting stuff down and then he can't remember where he put it.  That is the reason that males will not prevail in this world! 

Just to let you ladies know...it is genetic.  And somewhat socially passed on as well.

Women, as gatherers, in hunter-gatherer societies, knew where to look for particular plants-be they medicinal or nutritional in value.  They remembered where they found them which aided the society in general.  The women harvested the plants while watching the children and carrying on conversations.  

Men, on the other hand spent time in the woods focused on finding prey and not communicating with their cohorts-except to point to their kills and compare the sizes.  

 *LOL* This story made me think of today with DH

We were running late and I had to make the dog's Kongs and finish getting ready so I asked DH who was downstairs if he could please make the Kong's for me. He comes upstairs and says "where are they". I told him part of the fun is actually finding them, of course he didnt like that. So he looked by the front door and says "I cant find them" and I tell him check the bedroom, Teddi's crate, Maggie's bed, and he does and says "I cant find them" and then I say to him to check downstairs. (mind you, he was already down there). He goes down comes back up a second later with two Kongs in his hand and I said I see you found them, and he said "yeah, they were right on the floor downstairs" DUH!!  

rwbeagles

Apparently this looking but yet....not looking technique starts early!

Gina,  Don't you know we do that on purpose just to drive you crazy.  I makes up for some of the things that women do that annoy men!!!