To wonder what on earth goes through my DH's mind sometimes?

[nochips01]

Note... this is meant to be lighthearted.

Seriously.... he loses track of time, or 'something'. This morning he promised our 4 year old he would take him to the soft play so that I could have some hours free to complete a project proposal for work. DH tells us he is ready, so i get DS's socks and shoes on and his bits and bobs together. This was at 11.30. We wait and finally I go to find DH and discover he is replacing a door handle to the spare bedroom 'while he thinks about it '. The door handle has been broken since before DS wasborn. he chooses now? So DS and I wait in the hallway until noon when he has finished. DS can't understand why he is waiting.

Now, it is 16.32. DH has to leave to get his train back to London at 5 pm on the dot. He is not yet packed. So what has he just NOW decided to do? Attach tow ropes to our car so that he can tow his old landrover from the garage onto the driveway because next weekend he might work on it.

In about 2 minutes he is going to come rushing in and panic because he is not packed and he needs a shower.

Honestly. He is a grown man.

... and there he is in a panic..... [rolls eyes]

Is your DH my DH's twin? At 11pm tonight he will, without a doubt, 'discover' that his cycling stuff hasn't washed itself in the last 3 days and he will "just have to wear it as it is" for cycling to work. ;)

You'd be surprised at how appealing pointless tasks are when you're trying to procrastinate from doing something you don't want to do.

You need to perfect he art of just sitting there calmly qwith a brew while he flaps around the place

I never stop teasing DH about this.....

The law needed mowing and the shed needed some monsters spiders removing before I used it for a project. DH said he'd come to sort the arachnid menace in a sec, he'd just get changed. I mowed the entire (large) back garden, cleaned the mower blades, bagged the clippings and put the mower away. About 45 minutes. No sign of DH.

I went upstairs and he is half dressed, reading a map for a walking holiday we are going on in several months' time. In his pants. Because he got distracted and lost track of the time

He's gone.

And left his phone and train ticket behind. There is no time to come back so he will have to buy a return.

We have been together for 10 years and I have often thought that whenever DH says he is ready that I should start cleaning the house while I wait. The house would be sparkling all the time.

Mind you.... I am very anxious about time keeping myself. I automatically factor in things like driving time, and add ten minutes as I cannot abide being late.

I am waiting for a cup of tea I was promised at 2pm

Nochips, whenever he says he's ready, start writing a novel. You could have a trilogy completed by Christmas.

Believe me, people, this is a human not (just) a male trait.

I know that if we are about to go anywhere and DW decides to make or take a phone call I may as well forget about going there.

YouYheCat I wonder if that's how Tolstoy wrote War and Peace

Probably.

Sounds like DP. And when I ask about something he said he'd do over a year ago, i.e. when is he going to actually do it, I get, "I said I'd do it; stop nagging me about it".

DP also leaves packing till the last minute and inevitably cannot find something essential which he has dumped somewhere, left in a pocket or the car such as passport, keys, wallet. Then he tries to get me to look for it as well, which will make me late.

Grrr.

My DH does this too. When my waters broke I was standing in the hall, bag packed, ready to go, and DH decided he needed to shave.

Andrew I did not mean to imply that it was a male trait, so sorry if it came across that way. :) I have a good female friend who is the same.

DH participates in anannual sporting event that usually starts quite early.One of his mates comes around each year at 6 am with bacon butties. I said to him once how nice I thought that was and he said 'yeah..I have an ulterior motive. MrChips would NEVER get there on time, so I figure if I turn up with breakfast we have a fighting chance.... '

Mind you, we have totally different approaches to things. If we have to be somewhere DH will ask me 'what time do we have to be there?' My reply is always 'We have to leave at...,' and he gets really frustrated, because he wanted to know the arrival time, not the leaving time.

OMG I can totally relate this to my aged mother.

Whenever she visits we offer to drive her home - I'm quite anal but, due to other commitments, I need to be precise on timings. For example I'll say "Mum, I need to be back home by 7pm so can you please be ready to leave the house at 6pm".

As the afternoon moves on I'll factor in my "pre-journey" wee at 5.50pm, get shoes ready, find keys etc etc so that at 6pm I'm stood in the porch ready to leave.

Where's my DM?? - still sat on the settee watching Antiques Roadshow.

When I point out that we need to go it's her cue to:-

• suddenly remember an interesting tale that Maureen told her 2 weeks ago which she MUST now regale me with.
• Realise that she cant find her gloves/shoes/glasses/pillbox, causing a family search of every room she's been in. Aforementioned item is usually located down the side of which ever armchair she has moulded herself into.
• Shoes and coat will be put on BEFORE she realises that she better be on the safe side and visit the bathroom!!

WTF By now its usually 6.30 and I'm pacing the floor!!!

Every week I try to chivvy her along a wee bit earlier but she fails to appreciate that other people have timings/schedules that heave to be met!!!

Seriously this is my DP! I was going to post a thread about it. I love him to bits but he drives me mad. A typical example would be he'll say "shall we go shopping now?" And I say yes. I get dd all ready and in the carseat etc. ... Waiting around...goes to see where he is and he's measuring something/ doing something in the garden/ faffing about his tools. It actually gives me the rage. Another is "let's have tea now" ....then proceeds to mow the mahoosive lawn

we have a friend (male) who will arrive an hour+ earlier than we've told him to arrive. Last time it was 1.5 hours while we were trying to eat dinner :S We've resorted to lying about the time.

I have another friend you have to lie about the arrival time because otherwise she will be late. Every. Single. Time.

My husband and I operate on the "leave and arrive" time frame. We will estimate what time we need to leave and add 15/30 mins depending on distance. That gives us time to run a little late if needed.

im the person who lied about the time my wedding was just to get my family there on time

you are not alone they are everywhere men and women children too

my auntie was so disorganised she was curling her hair in the car on the way to her dads funeral my mom screamed at her to stop driving or we will be joining DAD (she took over the driving in the end)

Deaky, me too! We lied about the wedding time too, just to get my mil there on time. And she was staying approximately 2 foot from the aisle.

My mil is like this. Drives me potty. Are we ready? Yes just coming. Dh, me, baby all ready in car, 15 mins later she will come out. My sils are exactly the same. We can guarantee if we are meeting them somewhere, they wont leave until the time we are supposed to be meeting

Haha love it! My dh does this and it gives me the rage! He's gotten a wee bit better though.

My DH does this as well. There was that time he invited a couple of friends round on a day I was going to be out on a course all day - I said fine, but it's going to be down to you to tidy up, get the shopping and at least start cooking dinner. So I got back exhausted, to find the house a tip, he hadn't bought all we needed for dinner and hadn't started cooking. However, he very proudly displayed to me the soapdish he'd put on the wall, and couldn't understand why I wasn't at all impressed. When the friends turned up slightly early they found a very frosty atmosphere and no doubt wondered what on earth they'd walked into.