for wanting OH to keep his memory in his own head, not mine?

[2kidsintow]

Where's this?
Where's that?
What day are the kids on school dinners?
Are you getting them from the childminders or am I?

etc...etc...etc...

I'm sure this is because they walk around with their eye's shut.

Toomany I am stealing that. Drives me mental. Ds has no socks I'll get more.. Cue me going to the pile of ds laid out for the day clothes and pulling out the socks and waving them in Dhs face.
Also can never find anything that's not staring him in the face and even then he probably won't see it and don't get me started on the remind me. Bloody remember it yourself!! Aargh.
Does.
My.
Head.
In.

I do my best not to enable it and it doesn't make a damn difference.

I've started putting odd words into conversations to act as triggers.

Me: Blah blah blah. Oh and purple dinosaur.

Him: What?

Later.

Him: You did NOT tell me about this.

Me: Sure I did. It was the purple dinosaur chat.

Him: What? ... Oh, yeah you did tell me.

Sadly all it has a achieved is that he's stopped pretending I've not told him something but I feel a lot better.

Ha ha, WaitingForMe, love the Purple Dinosaur idea. I may well steal it.

Oh we have Man Looking (and irritatingly Kid Looking as well seeing as DD seems to be picking up from him).

If DD asks what I'm doing (when I am quite obviously doing something like reading the paper) I say "Washing an Elephant"

If DH asks what's for tea (when it is quite obvious what I am cooking) I say "Elephant steaks"

If either of them ask 'where their XXX is' I say "the Elephant took it" or "I dont know, ask the Elephant"

Dh once, quite sarcastically, said "Oh God, where have you hidden the small frying pan this time?" to me, in front of our friends. Cue me smiling and pointing slowly at the hob - the one he was stood right in front of at the time - Friends burst out laughing and asked me how the hell I put up with him...DH got all sniffy and offended

WaitingForMe, that's even worse than the rest, isn't it? The way they can blatantly pretend you never mentioned things!

Toomany, oh I might steal that if my pacific ways don't work

QuietNinja, girlsyearapart, what happens here is I go and help him look for whatever it is that he can't find dd's socks and when I do find them immediately in front of our eyes he has the nerve to say "oh, they're not in the same place! Well, if you move things..." Murderous, I tell you, murderous...

Yeah, why is it that when DH can't find something his first reaction is, "Where did you put X?"

To which my usual response is, "I havent' moved X, haven't seen it, haven't had anything to do with it, and why are you accusing me?"

Then he goes and looks properly, and lo and behold, it's where he's put it...

I just sound really surprised at being asked the question and say 'I don't know, darling'.

Then, if after 5 mins, there is still muttering going on, I say 'Would you like me to stop doing X [cooking tea, reading book, etc.] and find it for you?' On the whole, he is too ashamed to admit he would like me to stop doing something and find it, and instead goes and finds it himself.

We still do hear about the 'miracle' of when he couldn't see his wallet for ages and then suddenly saw it on the kitchen table - I think that DH saw that as near 100% proof of either God, ghosts or pixies.

Sorry but I'm at these. How some of these men are still alive I don't know.

Alive, and holding down jobs, somehow. Extraordinary.

My dad never had this problem all because of my mum...

Dad would leave something somewhere and mum would see it and then move it to where it should be.

Only..

When asked about where said item is she would admit to seeing it and then admit to moving it but can never remember where she moved it to.

Dad learnt quickly never to leave things around in fear of mum moving it and never to be seen again afterwards.

Oh yeah, when my kids were younger and went to ballet every Saturday, he would ask what time their classes were. Every week. I'd usually say something like, "Same time as last week, and the week before, and the week before that." For some reason he didn't find this an acceptable answer...

thirdfromleft, has she started styling her pubes? When she asks where the hairspray is, it's probably there too.

I'm the thing-loser in our house so . I've learnt to do PA huffing and puffing when I'm looking for something as I'm too embarrassed to ask outright. Really, why I'm not under the patio already I have no idea.

Admittedly, I must admit that sometimes he can't find things because they are not left where he last left them.

As in (last night's conversation)
"I put away your gadget for putting bottle tops on bottles because you have left it out on the side since CHRISTMAS EVE! Why is it you want it the day after I have finally got annoyed enough to clean up after you?"

And breathe.... OH's home brew in our miniscule kitchen is a source of tension!

I get 'What's DD wearing today?'

I don't know - you are in there dressing her - you pick.

It always me shake my head in dispair when I see a police finger trip search ands it a long line of men??? as if they will find anything. ever.

ROFLCOPTER!!!!!!

You can easily hide delicious food though.

No no. There is a special nodule in the male brain,which homes in on delicious food.

No, this is not new, I bought it in a charity shop three years ago...

(said every time I wore a particular top for literally years)

Fourteen years ago, we had to live with my parents for about three months whilst we were waiting for a house to be ready.

Still NOW my Ddad will ring up and ask where I think the allan keys, glasses repair kit, jam funnel, sausage maker, WD40 etc are. And despite very seldom visiting them I STILL CAN TELL HIM, at a distance of 150 miles.

Magical Uterus!

OMG - Do you live in my house? I have the same problem. Drives me insane to the point of almost murder.

My EX-H used to do this...he was a master of asking questions to which he knew the answer too. After I got fed up/cottoned on I just replied 'I don't know' to almost every question and eventually he gave up. Classic passive aggressive behaviour.

My STBEX H is not coping well living on his own. I don't particularly want to talk to him so I email mostly. Even though he has all arrangements in writing, he still gets them wrong 50% of the time. I don't think he's doing it on purpose to wind me up, either. He's just that crap.