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"

My DH drives for GIST. GIST deliver M&S stuff to the shops.

Today we went to Chester for a lovely day out together...no kids ...just us.

We HAD to go through the back door of M&S...because he HAD to show me how he has to maneuver his articulated lorry onto a turntable to get the trailer into the loading bay.
Actually, thinking about it, we HAD to walk the route he drives...past the Cathedral, under the Clock..he pointed out all the places he has nearly scraped...

He was so happy!

And when we are out and about he still shouts 'my wagon' if he sees one he has driven ...

Chainsaws. Following Chainsaws for sale on Ebay. Buying Chainsaws which are sold for 'spares and repairs' and attempting to fix them. Chainsaw videos on Youtube with people either using or mending Chainsaws. Chainsaw forums on how to fix Chainsaws.

Using a Chainsaw to saw up logs. (But this appears to be less interesting than watching videos on other people sawing up logs).

The Crystal Maze. Not the rubbish new version, but the 1990s ones with Richard O'Brien and Ed Tudor-Pole. It was the only thing he watched on TV as a child: he knows most of those episodes by heart. And he's lost count of how many times he's done the Crystal Maze live experience: more than six times in London, once in Manchester.

And how about this one? Children's party games! He says he didn't play enough of them when he was a child. He collects books about them, and he loves the pass the parcel threads that sometimes come up on MN, or those asking for help with party games. If he sees a game taking place, he's often as excited as the children there. If he's at a school fete or a Christmas fair and there's a stall that's party game-like, such as pin the nose on Rudolph, he has to have a go.

DH is obsessed with cleaning and I don't complain 😉
I was away at a conference for the last two days so sorted out their meals for those two days.He was really busy at work as well but has found time to take all the racks of dishwasher, cleaned them all and I was given an elaborate explanation of what he has done as it had ? Limescale on them. Dd winked at me and said that he finds this therapeutic!!!!
We once presented some cleaning stuff as his jokey birthday present.. I am the envy of all my friends

@wanderings

Motorbikes. Originally thought this was cool but the novelty soon wore off when I discovered he watches other people ride their bikes on YouTube. The constant "neaaawwmm" in the background wears very, very thin.

Oh thank goodness I’m not the only one suffering with this kind of stuff.

In this house it’s:

Cooking
Cooking shows
Cooking gadgets
Football results
Auction tv shows like Storage Wars etc
The size of everyone’s tv in every house we’ve ever visited

@MamaWeasel - are you married to my husband? Does he insist on specific knots for specific things and insist on telling you why? “Now I’ve used a half hitch here rather than a full hitch, you wouldn’t want a reef knot here, and although you might think a slip knot would be useful, it won’t work here because...”

He also has a lot of ordnance survey maps of the same area, various years apart, so that we can open them up and marvel at how Milton Keynes has grown over the years, and New Bradwell used to be a quite separate village...”

He is also obsessed with cleaning everything with bleach, because nothing is properly clean unless it has been bleached. I know if he’s been cleaning when I open the door to our block of flats because I can smell swimming pools. Oh and it has to be thin bleach, not thick, and he is very suspicious of products that contain bleach, like Flash with bleach, because it can’t be as good as plain bleach.

The grass...how long it is; how dry it is; how good the weather is for mowing it; mowing it...

@MrsSchadenfreude

Mine also has lots of OS maps...... Perhaps he's a clone!

Now, some people would use a hitch here (though of course, that's not a TRUE hitch, ha ha, ) but anyway, I'm going to use....... Because....and this is an intetesting knot because in Ashley's it's called a ??? But more commonly known as ??? mamaweasel nods off

@MamaWeasel - yes, that is exactly it with the knots - “Now this is a very unusual and old knot, it used to be used by women to tie their washing line to a tree... and it is similar, but not the same, as the knot that Senegalese fishermen use on their nets...”

DH is obsessed with tractors. And combines. Good thing it's what he does for work to be honest.... He is also obsessed with gold rush and the fishing show, I can't even remember what it's called!

@MrsSchadenfreude yes indeed, that is exactly it! Is your hubby in the international guild of knot tyers too? Mine has Ashley's Book of Knots in hard copy AND on cdrom as a backup. It's National Knot Tying Day soon, you know.....Ashley's birthday..... Think it's 15th dec. I really wish i didn't know stuff like this

This thread has given me some laughs. Here DH list is tractors and all things farm, rugby and those shows where they buy a lockup at auction.

@WhiteWineAndMagnums are you my mum? haha. my dad is bloody obsessed with his grass. He measures it with a ruler to see if it needs a trim. He had an operation on his foot and agreed to 'trust' my brother to mow it. He started from the wrong end of the grass and my dad was livid haha

Metal corrosion,
Radio ham
Masts,
Teaming up socks in proper daylight,
Politics (makes him red in the face with anger)

Screw fix catalogues always makes me laugh, as I used to be a nail tech and for some reason the distribution system picked my business out and started sending me catalogues 😂

Toilet duck
White t shirts

Oh and kitchen surface spray and kitchen roll....

Derail alert - there is a Crystal Maze Live?!What is this madness? Oooohhhh! Must do! Must do!

Nothing. He seriously has no oomph.

That our newish dishwasher opens the door at the end of the programme.

He's been known to say "only x minyutes to go, it will pop open soon"

And he fecking waits for it

Yep OH has Screwfix and ToolStation books by the loo, we call them his wank mags.

He was so excited when he first took me to Screfix saying "it's like Argos for boys". I was underwhelmed but all the 'boys' were chuckiling

He even has a special 'car hairdryer' to dry off the water droplets from the car, so he doesn't have a streaky finish before polishing.

A special hairdryer ? I am so not mentioning this to OH who has special buckets with filters that no one is allowed to touch allsorts of cloths, and a special drying towel that is thicker than any we own

Whitworth threads. He can talk about historic thread sizes, without hesitation or deviation, for quite some time. Obscure pre-war cars. Packaging! His cardboard box collection is second to none!

Nottingham bloody Forrest ( their middle table mediocrity) after twenty years, I can now accurately predict when the manager will be sacked..... and I loathe football.
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