Why don't men EVER listen?? (glenmar)

 Men are simple creatures!  Oh, and they are always right!  I gave up on trying to tell my hubby what he should do!  I just let him learn the hard way!

You'd think that they would learn from this experience, as well, but my money's on that they won't.  :oP

Make 'em buy you chocolates and flowers as an 'I'm wrong and you're right'.  :oD
 

DH is normally very reasonable and level headed.  And, he usually listens.

DS....well, lets just say that sometime in the years between childhood when Mom is the very best and very smartest person on the face of the earth, and adulthood, we seem to develop a severe case of poop between the ears.  Being a mom must mean you don't know nothing 'bout nothing.

Well, I'm sorry about all the mess and frustration, but I sure did appreciate something to chuckle about this late in the day. My DH is pretty darn stubborn too, so I know exactly how you feel.

Glad I could brighten your day!

For goodness sakes...when there is NOTHING but white around you and nothing but white falling out of a gray sky, gee, ya think maybe it might be hard to see where you're backing??

glenmar

gee, ya think maybe it might be hard to see where you're backing??

 

Not for some men. They're intuitive about those things and have usually done it "one hundred times before" or at least that's what I hear. I don't mind letting anyone learn the hard way, but when the lesson has a huge impact on my life, I'm not so happy about it. 

 all I can say is wow do I KNOW where you are cojing from my DH is as thick headed as they come - he's bright no doubt about it but he has never considered listening to anyone else - Up until trying to train Bugsy I was OK with it but it has caused some battles

glad your car is out and as for DS he'll either figure it out or he won't
 

 Where's the head bangy icon when ya need it, huh? lol! Poor Glenda, poor cars...

If DS wants to be hardheaded and not be able to use his truck, well, that's his choice.  Our plow guy IS wonderful and even tried to move the RV for us when it got stuck.  But, he very often comes in the middle of the night.....like 3AM.  So DS can make his own decision on this, and if the plow guy comes during the day, maybe he'll luck out.  Otherwise, I see a tow truck in his future when he gets tired of not being able to drive.

I won't be home today so he can't use my sportage....and the spectra hasn't left the garage since the snow started!  It's six miles into town so I somehow have a feeling when he runs out of cigs or pop or something getting his truck UNstuck will take on new importance!

Glenda, you're forgetting rule number 1:  only men know how to drive in snow.

Silly me!!!

When I first got my drivers license, Dad used to wait for a good snow fall and wake me up at some god forsaken hour to go driving, before the plows got out.  He'd drive and get the car stuck, then get out and tell me to get it UNstuck! And he had no intention of helping, other than offering suggestions.  Of course, when I bought my first car I got to drive it for an hour before I had to meet him at home for tire chaning lessons.......HIS daughter was not going to be stranded someplace and at the mercy of others!

But, you are so right.  Only men know how to drive in winter weather.  That's why women keep emergency stuff in their vehices and men don't.  I can get myself unstuck in the rare event that I get stuck, but that's because of the little shovel, the rock salt and the cardboard I keep in the back of my car at all times winter.  But, men wouldn't need that stuff, would they?  That's why I see so many of THEIR vehicles stuck in the ditches!

4WD vehicles, snow and men.  What's so hard to understand?  ;)

I dunno Billy.  I guess my number one goal is to not NEED to use the stuff I have stashed in my vehicle.  In other words, to avoid GETTING stuck in the first darned place.

And, I'm sorry, but even 4WD vehicles have some limitations....they aren't hover craft!

But Glenda, my dear, you aren't factoring MEN into this equation.  Sure, 4WD vehicles can be stuck but we have to find that out for ourselves.  I have had my 4WD TRACTOR stuck.

ETA for clarity:  On the couple of occasions when I have had my tractor stuck, if my wife had been driving the tractor at the time, she might well have stopped the tractor, looked the situation over and concluded, no, I don't think I will drive off into that.  We men, being stupid, don't have that thought process.  All I did was look over and make sure the tractor was indeed in 4WD, I damned the torpedoes and full speed aheaded.  I then walked down to the neighbor's house and asked him to bring his tractor and pull me out.  Which he did, without saying a word about how stupid I was for driving off into that muck in the first place.  He didn't say a word because, he knew that for the grace of God, go he.