To think DP is an idiot? (Lighthearted)

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Last night I was in tears due to raging ear infection, I took myself off to bed and DP came up shortly after asking if I wanted some pain relief. I said ok, I know we have a box of paracetamol on the medicine shelf as I recently found 4 packets of the same brand paracetamol and put it all in one of those clicky paracetamol box/container things.
DP went off and came back saying we've none in and do I want him to go to the shop (live rural so long drive) I said no, we've definitely got lots in but he was adamant he looked everywhere in the cupboard and it wasn't there. A while later I took myself off downstairs and found it within 30secs in the cupboard

I left it out on the microwave for this morning, upon waking DP offered to get me it again, I told him where I left it. He comes back up saying it's nowhere on the microwave there's just some Strepsils and gets ready for work. I come down and the first thing staring you in the face as you head to the microwave is a box of paracetamol with a picture of a tablet on it clearly stating "PARACETAMOL". I point it out to DP and what does he say?
He apologised and said he was expecting a cardboard box so didn't look for that one

This is my dad - 100%. He used to work abroad so he'd be without my mum for long periods and I've no idea how hw survived. Retired now and still at it. My mum just can't understand how a fully grown, retired man can have lived his whole life like that!

DH and DS do this all the time to me and it drives me mad. I think they are just too lazy to look properly for anything.

I call it man eyes - my DH is prone to it too!

My kids are like this, I now charge them a finders fee of £1 from their pocket money if they want me to look for something and it's where I've already told them it is. It's stopped it happening almost completely, how miraculous that they can actually look properly when motivated!
I'm intrigued by the clicky paracetamol box though, what's that? We always have tons of half packets lying around

Yep. DH and DSS are the same.

I marvel that DH lived alone for so long before I arrived.

My DH used to do it. Then I took to taking anything that was absolutely his, placing his object under the thing I wanted and asking him if he could see either object.

Like his left shoe under a box of tissues; car keys under paracetamol...

Now I just ask him to SEE not just LOOK!

Yep. He did what we call a 'man search' in our house. Very annoying!

My DC always say, nothing's really lost until mum can't find it

Try asking him to find something in the fridge if you want a laugh. Preferably something right at the front at eye level...

Constant battle here, could be right in front of his eyes and he won't see it. Am going to start fining them because at least I get something out of fruitless discussion.

Strax I'm going to use what you do with DS1. If he can't find something we now ask him to look 5 times. It seems to be the point where he starts 'seeing '. We have the world's smallest kitchen. Seriously.

If I say something is in the kitchen I KNOW he's going to come back and say he can't find it

DS2 is nothing like this. You can't hide anything from him so it's not naturally a boy thing.

DH used to lose his keys every morning. He was parked behind me so I'd help him look for it otherwise I'd be late for work. One morning I sat down on the sofa with a magazine and said "when you're ready..."

He was very bewildered. I had let work know I was going to be late and left him to it. Did he 'lose' his keys again? Not on your life. except for 20 years later when we couldn't find his car keys, even looked in the tratsh...got lifts to work and 2 months later had the barrels changed at huge cost...only to find the keys in the fridge a week later... i still love him really....most days

I think I must have a male brain then, because I'm always doing things like this

If I was looking for a cardboard paracetemol box (which is what I would have expected to see as well) then any other container would be practically invisible to me, even if it had 'paracetemol' written across in big letters.

I didn't think it was an unusual container, you can get the flat cardboard ones or the plastic ones that you have to line up the two arrows to open it IYKWIM.
But the fact that there were only about 3 things on the microwave and he didn't see it (it wasn't behind anything either) just made me question everything 

I might have to employ your strategy @TurtleCavalryIsSeriousShit

I can never find the mayonnaise. I’m totally mayonnaise blind. Perhaps you husband has a similar affliction?

He must need glasses. Unless he's never heard of paracetomol and was looking for a box marked Aspirin

Why are there no pain killers in the jungle? Because the parrots eat em all...

Get well soon and get yourself to the doctors for antibiotics if it doesn't shift soon.