28 A Wine Fueled Idea Turned Into A Guest Post: Reasons My Wife Drives Me Crazy

After one too many glasses of wine a discussion with my husband about the "Reasons My Husband Drives Me Crazy" posts, I decided it would only be fair to give him a chance to get back at me a little. My first guest post is written by my fabulous husband. P.S. I formatted the post, but gave him free reign to write whatever he pleased. So here you have it...

My wife has micromanaged me into the man I am today. I must admit I was a bit of a train wreck when I met my beautiful wife.  If life is a journey, I was definitely a little lost.  The day I met Brooke I realized that some adjustments needed to be made in order to keep this amazing woman.  With that being said, I think she is taking this, me “making adjustments" thing a little bit too far...


Reason #1 My Wife Drives Me Crazy: She can never make a food order without annoying the entire kitchen staff.

Wife: "I want a side salad with the cheese on the side, no tomatoes, and a extra side of ranch, honey mustard and whatever dressing that is low fat. Be SURE to ask if it's low fat!"

Me:“You do realize this is Wendy’s right?” 

This happens all the time. I decided to just stopped ordering for her all together.  Now, when we go to a drive thru I just put it in park and lean back and make her shout her order at the  intercom from the backseat driver passenger's seat. The worst is when I am alone and I have to order for her myself.  There have been many a Taco Bell employee that have called me a tool for ordering tacos with no meat and "can you add rice instead?"  I know it's not that much trouble for them to make these changes, but she is not the one who is getting stared at by the Wendy's workers for ordering a cheeseburger, "hold the burger".  Oh well, at least it's not my cheese and lettuce sandwich that is getting spit on.


Reason #2 My Wife Drives Me Crazy:Anything Laundry Related

We have almost been divorced like three times over me putting her stuff in the dryer. So we just do our own laundry now. But, that's not even the problem anymore...The problem is that she thinks she's the one who "knows how to do laundry"...she needs to get off her laundry high horse. Once in awhile tries to do all of our clothes in one day. First, she makes a bunch of piles and puts them in the middle of every walkway in the house.  She sorts by color, not by items, so our white towels end up getting washed with my white dress shirts. Then, she puts in a load that is too big for our washer causing it to almost break at least once a week.  The worst part is that she is constantly puts a load of laundry into the washer and forgets about it.  She puts up one load and that’s it! That’s as far as it goes, the piles stay where they are and the oversized load stays in the washer.  Of course, the stuff that does make it into the washer to mildew is everything I ever wear. So, every time I play basketball in the morning, I end up smelling like a wet rag. 

When all is said and done, I'll gladly take these inconveniences.  Brooke is an amazing woman and even though there are hundreds of things that drive me crazy about her, there are thousands of things that make me love her.

Posted by Brooke Arellano Thursday, August 16, 2012 |