I dont understand my spouse.......

[PocketThunder]

So every night my spouse needs to get a drink of ice water.  She gets the glass, drops a couple of ice cubes in, fills it with water, takes one sip, and then never touches it for the rest of the night.. 

Or she will open a can of pop, take one drink, then leave it sit the rest of the night.  Growing up my sister did the same thing, she would leave 7/8 full cans of pop all over the house.

Anyways,

Am i not alone or am i the only one who thinks this is strange.?

[terrible one]

Dude my girlfriend does the exact same thing. 

[Mopar440+6]

I'm with ya on that one. Both of my sisters, most of my friends, my old roommate, all of them do that. I have to try NOT to kill the entire glass in one shot...

[694spdRT]

That looks like some of Uncle Jessie's moonshine. Did you check to make sure your wife isn't passed out on the floor? 

[68chrgrwife]

I do it sometimes too.  Hubby hates when I leave half drank soda around the house...I think for me it is the fact that I get a drink and bring it up to bed and fall asleep or forget that I grabbed it.

[69bronzeT5]

My sister does that too. She'll leave half full cans of pop around the house. I do that too but I finish it off like 20 mins later. She never drinks the rest

[PocketThunder]

That looks like some of Uncle Jessie's moonshine. Did you check to make sure your wife isn't passed out on the floor? 

I hope not, she is due with another little Thunder July 8th.   

[694spdRT]

That looks like some of Uncle Jessie's moonshine. Did you check to make sure your wife isn't passed out on the floor? 

I hope not, she is due with another little Thunder July 8th.   

Congratulations! We have something in common as my wife is due with a little one June 7th.

[bull]

Tell her to put the glass away and then get to dusting that desk and keyboard. Tell us how that goes.

[Brock Samson]

congrats guys! 

Mine does it with oj makes a big deal about getting oj takes only little itty bitty sip and it'll just sit there... for days...
then when it seperates with the juice at the bottom and the water on top, she'll go get another and then another... 

she uses up all the glassware in the house in just a couple or few days... and every flat surface in the bedroom is filled with poor warm neglected stratified O.J...   

[TruckDriver]

Gotta be a woman thing. My ex-wife did and I guess still does the same thing.

[TeeWJay426]

If this is the only thing you don't understand about your wife, I'd say you're doing pretty good.... better than most of us!!

[Tilar]

When I first read the topic here, The thought ran through my mind, "I want to meet the guy that really does understand a woman". I've been married 3 times and have come to the conclusion that I'll just stay single.

[Old Moparz]

My wife doesn't do that with drinks, but she does other things that totally defy logic. In most cases I don't worry about it or even notice, but I do wonder why she's saving the 1286 plastic containers & lids that Chinese food comes in that she never uses for leftovers like she intended. Instead, she'll put food in a bowl, then cover it with cling wrap, & block all the beer in the fridge.

I avoid opening the cabinet that she stores them in because there's usually an avalanche invloved. Not only that, but the cabinet is over the sink, & if there is an avalanche, all these clean containers & lids land in the sink where there is a plate with food on it, & it gets all over the containers so they have to be cleaned before they can be stored all over again for the next avalanche.

Now my daughter leaves drinks all over the damn place. Of course I'm hoping she grows out of it, she's only 8. I've watched her go to the fridge, take out a bottle of juice, pour some into a glass, put the juice back, leaves the glass on the counter, & then leaves the room to go back to play forgetting she poured a drink. I'm sure there's 2 or 3 glasses missing & somewhere in the house right now with rancid juice, or chocolate cheese milk in it. 

[justin1987]

I'm sure there's 2 or 3 glasses missing & somewhere in the house right now with rancid juice, or chocolate cheese milk in it. 

[dodgecharger-fan]

My wife doesn't do that with drinks, but she does other things that totally defy logic. In most cases I don't worry about it or even notice, but I do wonder why she's saving the 1286 plastic containers & lids that Chinese food comes in that she never uses for leftovers like she intended. Instead, she'll put food in a bowl, then cover it with cling wrap, & block all the beer in the fridge.

I avoid opening the cabinet that she stores them in because there's usually an avalanche invloved. Not only that, but the cabinet is over the sink, & if there is an avalanche, all these clean containers & lids land in the sink where there is a plate with food on it, & it gets all over the containers so they have to be cleaned before they can be stored all over again for the next avalanche.

In my house, I refer to that cabinet as the Polish Tupperware cabinet because it's mostly sour cream tubs.
(My wife is Polish, btw)

[Old Moparz]

My wife doesn't do that with drinks, but she does other things that totally defy logic. In most cases I don't worry about it or even notice, but I do wonder why she's saving the 1286 plastic containers & lids that Chinese food comes in that she never uses for leftovers like she intended. Instead, she'll put food in a bowl, then cover it with cling wrap, & block all the beer in the fridge.

I avoid opening the cabinet that she stores them in because there's usually an avalanche invloved. Not only that, but the cabinet is over the sink, & if there is an avalanche, all these clean containers & lids land in the sink where there is a plate with food on it, & it gets all over the containers so they have to be cleaned before they can be stored all over again for the next avalanche.

In my house, I refer to that cabinet as the Polish Tupperware cabinet because it's mostly sour cream tubs.
(My wife is Polish, btw)

  Yeah, we have those too, some don't even have lids that fit.

[700jfm]

That's what saved them in the movie "Signs" Do you have a bat

[hemigeno]

chocolate cheese milk

You might be on to something there, Bob!

[Vainglory, Esq.]

Dude my girlfriend does the exact same thing. 

Mine too.  WTF?

[General_01]

Must be a female thing. My wife doesn't do that, but my daughters do. They leave water bottles all over half drank. I already said we are not buying any more bottled water. Things that make you go ummmm???

[BrianShaughnessy]

I get a glass of ice water myself and maybe take a sip or 2 from it. 

Then Damkhat jumps up onto the nightstand and gets a drink.

In the morning I go dump whatevers left of the warm water and cat hair     

[moparstuart]

I get a glass of ice water myself and maybe take a sip or 2 from it. 

Then Damkhat jumps up onto the nightstand and gets a drink.

In the morning I go dump whatevers left of the warm water and cat hair     

that happen to me two , wanna kill the cat everytime

[70charginglizard]

Yep...woman thing....

Girlfriends have done it. Wife (or more acurately identified as Ex wife now)  have done it and now my daughter does it.

Don't ask me why...I do not know. It's just a woman thing. Thats what I know for sure

[PocketThunder]

Ok i've got another one, the cheese story and it goes like this:   

My spouse and i were engaged to be married and she moved in with me a few months before the wedding.  We are now grocery shopping "together" and i had no idea what was about to change my life forever.  First of all, you dont start at one end of the store, buzz down every isle in an orderly fashion, grab what you need and get out of there.  No, you need to zig zag around the store getting a few things here, a few things there.   

Anyways, we walk into the grocery store, and i see a cheese display and i say, hey we need cheese, here is a 1/2 pound block for $5.  She flips out on me and says, oh my god thats way too much to pay for cheese.  So i say, but its priced by the pound and i think thats a good deal.  Later on after zig zagging thru the store we get to the dairy section and she grabs two 1/4 pound blocks of cheese for $2.50 each.  She tells me, see, these are a better deal.   

I start to explain that two 1/4 pounds are equal to 1/2 pound and that $2.50 twice is $5..... but i could see that i was going nowhere fast and just shut my mouth.  Now i avoid grocery shopping alltogether..

[General_01]

If I go grocery shopping with my wife, all I do is push the cart and look at the car magazines. My wife always asks me when am I going to do the grocery shopping. I just shrug my shoulders and tell her she is better at it then me.

I used to know how to shop for groceries.

[68chrgrwife]

hubby and I do the shopping together all the time.  I think we are pretty good team.  Although I think he picks up too many snack and not enough meat....then we have nothing to cook for dinner, but have enough snacks to feed an army...LOL....

[BMOTOXSTAR]

My wife does the same with soda & bottled water. Man it pisses me off.....
I try to conserve & not waste & what does she do & at night , take on sip and then leaves it by the night stand.
It must be the way they are hard wired, to waste & drain my wallet.
I feel your pain brother.

[1970 Charger 500]

If women didn't have vaginas, there'd be a bounty on them!

[Old Moparz]

Ok i've got another one, the cheese story and it goes like this:   

My spouse and i were engaged to be married and she moved in with me a few months before the wedding.  We are now grocery shopping "together" and i had no idea what was about to change my life forever.  First of all, you dont start at one end of the store, buzz down every isle in an orderly fashion, grab what you need and get out of there.  No, you need to zig zag around the store getting a few things here, a few things there.   

Anyways, we walk into the grocery store, and i see a cheese display and i say, hey we need cheese, here is a 1/2 pound block for $5.  She flips out on me and says, oh my god thats way too much to pay for cheese.  So i say, but its priced by the pound and i think thats a good deal.  Later on after zig zagging thru the store we get to the dairy section and she grabs two 1/4 pound blocks of cheese for $2.50 each.  She tells me, see, these are a better deal.   

I start to explain that two 1/4 pounds are equal to 1/2 pound and that $2.50 twice is $5..... but i could see that i was going nowhere fast and just shut my mouth.  Now i avoid grocery shopping alltogether..

If I were in your place that day, I don't know if I would have gotten out of the store without a kick to the groin for what I might have said to her.   

[charger_mike75]

I never thought about till now, My wife does the same thing. 

[Charger_Fan]

My Wife does the same thing, but not routinely...however, if a glass of water or a can of pop ever actually get emptied, it's a friggin' miracle! For that matter, she usually does the same thing with food...eats everything but the last two bites.

"Why don't you finish that?"
"Because I'm full."
"But it's only two bites!
"I'm full."
"<groan>"

[Old Moparz]

My Wife does the same thing, but not routinely...however, if a glass of water or a can of pop ever actually get emptied, it's a friggin' miracle! For that matter, she usually does the same thing with food...eats everything but the last two bites.

"Why don't you finish that?"
"Because I'm full."
"But it's only two bites!
"I'm full."
"<groan>"

http://www.intriguing.com/mp/_sounds/ml/stuffed.wav

[andy74]

has to be a female thing, my wife leaves half a drink every night and alyssa my 2 year old does the same thing,now madison is 10 months and she started to also,damn im in for a long 20 years!

[BigBlockSam]

If this is the only thing you don't understand about your wife, I'd say you're doing pretty good....   

my wife walks past things that have fallen on the ground . i mean for days . i ask her why don't you pick it up . she says , i didn't even see it.    although she walked around it several times .  Rene

[chargermick]

If wasted water is the thing that pisses you off the most about your wife, you got a great wife.

[BMOTOXSTAR]

If wasted water is the thing that pisses you off the most about your wife, you got a great wife.

Whoever said the most......

[PA Dodger]

As far as the drinks go, I have the same problem. I tell my 2 girls they can either finish the drink or I can stick it where the sun doesn't shine. I hate seeing full cans of pop(soda for those who don't live near Pittsburgh PA) sitting around going flat.  My wife does the same thing but I don't say anything because...well....you know....

As far as shopping goes, when we started shopping together I had to explain chocolate is not a food group and vegetables are not lethal!!!
Dan

[rt green]

what i did on the half bottle of water laying around was grab it and head for the garage. i figured bottled water was cleaner than tap water, so i started filling up antifreeze jugs with it. when i mix antifreeze 50/50, i have clean water to mix it with.  doesnt cure the problem, but some good does come out ot it.

[ck1]

Just as long is it ain't BOOZE, I don't have a problem with it

[1968 Charger B5]

Well if aliens invide like in the movie  "Signs"   youll be thanking your wife for leaving water all ove rthe house!    Haha

[472 R/T SE]

Mine does that with ice cream or various other things.  She leaves two bites left and will NOT finish or throw it away.  With all the weight she's put on, it's hard to believe she passes up finishing eating anything. 

[Johnny SixPack]

Mine does that with ice cream or various other things.  She leaves two bites left and will NOT finish or throw it away.  With all the weight she's put on, it's hard to believe she passes up finishing eating anything. 

Ha!!!!

Man, you're lucking she's using that fork or it'd end up in your neck. 

I guess I'm lucky.
My girl picks up her dishes and finishes food items off instead of leaving a spoonful/sip of it.

Now clothes are another thing all together.

She has these ever evolving piles of clean and dirty laundry. 
How she tells them apart is beyond me, and it must be why women can multitask so much better than men.

I've learned to just ignore it and things are better off for it. 

[PocketThunder]

Mine does that with ice cream or various other things.  She leaves two bites left and will NOT finish or throw it away.  With all the weight she's put on, it's hard to believe she passes up finishing eating anything. 

Ha!!!!

Man, you're lucking she's using that fork or it'd end up in your neck. 

I guess I'm lucky.
My girl picks up her dishes and finishes food items off instead of leaving a spoonful/sip of it.

Now clothes are another thing all together.

She has these ever evolving piles of clean and dirty laundry. 
How she tells them apart is beyond me, and it must be why women can multitask so much better than men.

I've learned to just ignore it and things are better off for it. 

So what you're saying is that the clothes are off and on the floor?  I dont see a problem here..     

[skip68]

Same here guys.    Just one sip for Mrs. Skip.   

[BigBlockSam]

She has these ever evolving piles of clean and dirty laundry. 
How she tells them apart is beyond me, and it must be why women can multitask so much better than men.

I've learned to just ignore it and things are better off for it.     

    so true . i'm like a little kid . i have to ask her for cloths , cause i don't know where the clean cloths are. 

[Brock Samson]

I got one...

My Gal sees these chick flick movies all the time, via Netflix,.. anyhow she gets all these "lifechanging" movies,.. i swear all these movies she gets are "lifechanging", she discribes them all the same way recommending I see them or "maybe we can watch them togeather"...
once in a while, I'll be ok with that, sure,..
or how about this one?:..  mid-week she'll come up with all these ambitious plans for the weekend, list about five or six things we can or "should" do this weekend, go to the movies go to the beach go shopping, out to dinner, sometimes all six things in one day,.. or after church on sunday...  but come the weekend, she's too tired maybe one thing gets done, maybe..   

[Johnny SixPack]

Mine does that with ice cream or various other things.  She leaves two bites left and will NOT finish or throw it away.  With all the weight she's put on, it's hard to believe she passes up finishing eating anything. 

Ha!!!!

Man, you're lucking she's using that fork or it'd end up in your neck. 

I guess I'm lucky.
My girl picks up her dishes and finishes food items off instead of leaving a spoonful/sip of it.

Now clothes are another thing all together.

She has these ever evolving piles of clean and dirty laundry. 
How she tells them apart is beyond me, and it must be why women can multitask so much better than men.

I've learned to just ignore it and things are better off for it. 

So what you're saying is that the clothes are off and on the floor?  I dont see a problem here..     

There wouldn't be if she didn't somehow manage to wear another layer underneath? 

That's the only explanation I've got, 'cause I don't ever seem to catch her naked without planning ahead. 

[BigBlockSam]

I got one...

My Gal sees these chick flick movies all the time, via Netflix,.. anyhow she gets all these "lifechanging" movies,.. i swear all these movies she gets are "lifechanging", she discribes them all the same way recommending I see them or "maybe we can watch them togeather 

  mine does a similiar thing with all those self help programs,  and every ounce and a while  i'll watch one with her.

[Brock Samson]

 yeah, if they were so damn "lifechanging" and all,.. she'd lose the 30 Lbs. - stop complaining all the ding damn time and be a stone fox! 

[BigBlockSam]