Incredibly dull things your husband gets excited about

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Please tell me I'm not the only one?

We live in a village and have a bit of a drive to the nearest "proper" shops. Hence the excitement over the new Eurospar that has been built over the last few months, opening today.

DH has provided a running commentary on the development of this project, his approval of how they've blended the new construction nicely in with the facade of the listed building involved, his disgust at the choice of electricians used (he spotted their van) his excitement when he peered in the window and realised it's actually going to be a sort of split level effect...

Today I woke up in darkness to DH's head sort of floating above me in the morning gloom, and a hiss of "it's half six. The new Eurospar opens at seven"

I had to tell him that, according to Facebook, it opens at 12,and he will have to wait until tomorrow so we can visit it as a family. He was absolutely crestfallen, but I'm going to suprise him with an emergency need for chocolate later tonight. He will then be able to visit this new Mecca, and come back all puffed up like a pigeon, to report on its wonders. I imagine that once the excitement fades, he'll go back to his previous fixation, "what sort of shed shall we get next summer"

Windows and large glass panels. He fits them for a living and everywhere we go we have to critique the workmenship of all the large glass panel windows we come across.

Cables! HDMI cables, micro USB cables, power cables, other cables that I can’t remember the name of (because I wasn’t listening). He is lovely and always makes me a cup of tea though.

@BarbaraofSeville

I was so thrilled when we stayed the night in Millau, went to the bridge exhibiton centre & finally drove over the Millau bridge. It was the highlight of my holiday, seconded by visiting the Pont du Gard!

Screwfix is also a favourite of DH.

Many, many, many tedious and dull things over the decades we’ve been together.
But strangely, he finds some of the amazing and wonderful things I’m fascinated by very boring! So doubly unreasonable!

Love this thread!!
My husband can talk for hours about:
-rugby
-French motorways
-houses he has found on Rightmove we could do up (although he seems to avoid all diy at home!)
-dinosaurs (he kept that one hidden til we had small boys!)
-more rugby
-obscure history battles even I haven't heard of...
And has the ability to become an 'expert' as soon as we need a new ANYTHING!!

Do love him though...there are worse things a 45 yr old man could be fixated with!!!

A few from my lovely DH

If he see's a 'pack' of cyclists not single file on the main road he will go on about it for an hour! To be fair, our road has had roadworks for over a year to create a cycle path that clearly no one uses.
Random YouTube obsessions - He spent a whole morning watching easyJet passengers loosing their shit at check in. Other favourites include mousetrap Monday's, and endless bad driving clips

To the pp married to a pilot who said they are not glamorous, they are nerds. Totally agree. I used to work for an airline and we called them ‘the nigels’. I can remember once seeing a first officer disembarking from a flight and noticing he looked quite ashen. I asked him if he was ok, and he told me the captain had spent the entirety of the nine hour flight describing to him in minute detail how he was re-wiring his house.

Has your husband ever been on Grand Designs @Thestrangestthing? Or would he get too uptight at the delays?

Hilarious thread!

Health and safety, will stop when we're on holiday to tell me all the things they're doing wrong on any building site we come across. Have had health n safety talks all around the world!

Jigsaw puzzles. Usually Disney or a nice landscape. Like some sweet old lady.

Christmas decorations. They're down in preparation for putting them up next week and will think nothing of spending £20 on a "sweet bauble"

Mine is currently delighted with his Swedish ice scraper for the car 🙄

Tractors, real and model.
Turning lights off to save electricity. Who left said bulbs on and why.
He also likes the screwfix catalogue despite never doing any diy.
However I go on about R111 and the wars of the roses and have managed to accidentally take him to most of the associated castles and battlefields so it's only fair

Plant and bulb catalogues.

kitchen knives
birds

I once spent a bank holiday afternoon contentedly on the sofa with my two DBs at our DPs house. The three of us were chatting happily while I was browsing the Lakeland catalogue, DB1 was ensconced in the Machine Mart catalogue and DB2 was flicking through the Screwfix catalogue. All this while Zulu played quietly on the TV in the background. My DS still regards it as the funniest thing he has ever seen.

Logs. He is massively jealous of one of our neighbours with his log pile and chopping prowess.
He's got really into gardening in the past 5 years or so and can spend ages choosing seeds and plants from his special catalogue. He has introduced my dad to the joys of his favourite plant catalogue and they now bond over rhubarb and this year's new tomato varieties.
My dad is also obsessed with his cat. He used to hate cats.

@NewtonPulsifer

And of course the Screwfix catalogue. He is crap at DIY, so I have no idea why he likes it

Its probably like me ! I doss around on my day off looking like shite, awful skincare routine and need my roots doing, but I still buy Vogue occasionaly!

My dads is roads. He's very handy when you are stuck in a jam, you can ring him and say I'm on the M6 at junction X and he goes "ah yes, where the such a pub used to be. Come off there, go down this obscure country lane, turn right at the garden centre...."
me "how can you remember all this!!?"
I could be in a place he's never visited and he could give me bloody directions

Screw fix- we got a really nice Xmas card from them last year it had a design a Christmas wreath made up of diy tools
Model railways
Cycling equipment

I love this thread! My DH is obsessed with kitchen bin liners and will only have Simple Human size Q for our kitchen bin. He orders in bulk twice a year and the last few weeks he likes to play a game of jeopardy where he tries to guess how late he can leave it to re-order without us running out.
I'm sure he could respond in kind if I was brave enough to ask him.🤣

Obscure 1970s Rock music
The internet speed
Cables
What his new phone can do
What his new computer can do
Watches
Football / cricket / most sports and how rubbish they are and over paid and how it's not like the good old days
How untidy DS bedroom is

Bins

I'd actually forgotten the personalised number plates.
Prior to discovering that the number plate twats people have a website, into which one can punch whatever random characters they wish their number plate to contain, he could while away hours reading the printed adverts in the Sunday times motoring section. There would be an occasional squeak of excitement and much flapping of newsprint as he dashed towards me saying things like "TPF 1 is for sale, and it's only £30,000"

He eventually settled on one with a derivation of his name on which nobody (thankfully for me, sadly for him) actually realises is personalised

Bridge

Cycling, random bits of kit for cycling, cycling routes, Tour de France
Bargains, especially those from charity shops
Making lists

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A computer game.. Tells me everything about it.. Playing it now, it rules our lives and he doesn't come to bed until 3am some nights.

@Cocolapew I think we share the same husband. Sigh

He is also obsessive about what gear I’m driving in . 🙄