Lame rant. Wife is out Christmas shopping, and...

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Lame rant. Wife is out Christmas shopping, and...

Posted: 12/16/2010 10:47:29 AM EDT

So I told her one of the things I wanted was a flashlight. I picked out the Surefire I wanted, printed it off, and off she went to Bass Pro. An hour later I get a call from her, and she said that the dude behind the counter said that what I REALLY needed was some what-the-fuck brand Delta Tactical flashlight.

So she calls me to tell me about how this other what-the-fuck brand flashlight has so many advantages, is more tacticooler, and oh, costs twice as much.

*sigh*

I hope she at least saves the receipt.

Posted: 12/16/2010 10:48:12 AM EDT

[#1]

eject

Posted: 12/16/2010 10:52:34 AM EDT

[#2]

Sometimes womenz can't follow directions.

Posted: 12/16/2010 10:54:19 AM EDT

[#3]

Fucking written instructions...

How do they work?

Posted: 12/16/2010 11:10:12 AM EDT

[#4]

Look on the bright side - you've got a woman that's easily persuaded by strangers ...oh wait

Just be glad she doesn't bring back some magic beans.

Posted: 12/16/2010 11:15:58 AM EDT

[#5]

I have done the same thing and gotten pretty much the same results.

I have even gone so far as to put it all in Excel complete with model numbers and price.
I still end up with a fooking bag of socks.

Posted: 12/16/2010 11:17:06 AM EDT

[#6]

If you set her up with a laptop in the kitchen you wouldn't have these problems.

Just sayin'

Posted: 12/16/2010 11:19:33 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
Sometimes womenz can't follow directions.

No shit.

As she was heading out the door to go grocery shopping, I told the wife to pick up a case of MGD. What does she bring home instead? Miller High Life Lite. Why? Because it was on sale.

Posted: 12/16/2010 11:21:23 AM EDT

[#8]

There's an easy way to avoid all this stressful holiday shopping bullshit. Buy what you want, when you want it and tell the spouse "this what you got me for Christmas".

Posted: 12/16/2010 11:22:20 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Look on the bright side - you've got a woman that's easily persuaded by strangers ...oh wait

Just be glad she doesn't bring back some magic beans.

LOL.

I once got a giant Craftsman work bench when I didn't need or ask for a workbench (I already built one a few years before). After that I started giving my wife a list of DVDs that I want. I buy shit for myself all year round so I don't really think she needs to go and spend a hundred dollars on something I won't want or need.

Posted: 12/16/2010 11:25:30 AM EDT

[#10]

I wouldnt see that as a bad thing.
While the guy is taking advantage of her, she evidently thinks enough of you that she is willing to call you and share that information in the hopes that she can get you an even better present.

Or I could be giving her incredibly too much credit.

Posted: 12/16/2010 11:26:25 AM EDT

[#11]

Damn those fucker salesmen. Did you tell your wife NO I want only what I told you not other brands?

I tell my wife I want only an ar15 for Christmas and she gets me the one I want along with 1k rounds of quality 223, 10 pmags, sling, case, acog and a xd9mm lol.

Posted: 12/16/2010 11:29:37 AM EDT

[#12]

Women are programmed to think more money equates to better quality. Some more effeminate of our brethren here buy into the same line of thinking. Don't hate her for being a woman.

My wife buys me a guitar every other year or so. I pretty much pick out exactly which one it will be and then tell her. Some times it's just a particular model and some times it's a very particular guitar. If it's in a local shop I'll put money down on it and tell them she'll be along to complete the transaction. She still obsesses over whether it's exactly the guitar I wanted. One of our local guys has had to go so far as to assure her I knew exactly what I was doing and was making a good choice. She will balk at buying a used one because everyone knows Christmas gifts have to be new from a big store.

Who knows? She may have just bought you the coolest flash light on the planet. Don't open until Christmas.

Posted: 12/16/2010 11:33:09 AM EDT

[#13]

I don't get it. You should've just gone and bought it for yourself, wrapped it yourself, put it under the tree TO HondaCiv FROM HondaCiv. Picking out your own presents isn't fun to me.

Posted: 12/16/2010 11:37:08 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Sometimes womenz can't follow directions.

No shit.

As she was heading out the door to go grocery shopping, I told the wife to pick up a case of MGD. What does she bring home instead? Miller High Life Lite. Why? Because it was on sale.

Miller High Life is one thing.

Miller High Life LITE is quite another.

It should make a decent slug bait if you are a gardener.

Posted: 12/16/2010 11:45:04 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:

I don't get it. You should've just gone and bought it for yourself, wrapped it yourself, put it under the tree TO HondaCiv FROM HondaCiv. Picking out your own presents isn't fun to me.

your a girl and that doesn't FEEL right.........................we are guys we KNOW what we want
returning shitty gifts that other get me because they don't know shit about that type item, isn't fun for me.
So if someone ask you what you want you don't tell them ? If you do it's the same thing................

Posted: 12/16/2010 11:49:50 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
I don't get it. You should've just gone and bought it for yourself, wrapped it yourself, put it under the tree TO HondaCiv FROM HondaCiv. Picking out your own presents isn't fun to me.

THIS

If I want a gun, knife, light, gear, etc I buy it myself.
For example: I collect custom knives, most I get directly from the makers. I spend anywhere from $350 - $2000 on a good knife.

My stepdaughter bought me a "custom knife" 10 years ago or so for Christmas.

She bought me a coast cutlery knockoff of a SOG Tomcat at a mall, even had my initials engraved on the bolster. It sits with pride in my display case. God knows what she paid for it, probably more than a real Tomcat, which would still be a cheap knife by my standards. She bought it because it looked like something I'd like.

It's the thought that counts.

Posted: 12/16/2010 11:54:48 AM EDT

[#17]

If my wife ever heard me call one of her gifts to me "shitty", well, that would be a very special evening at the Jeepnstein Estate.

I'm just thanking God every day for a woman who puts up with me. What she buys for me is irrelevant. I don't care about anything but her. She once bought me a stainless steel pasta pot for Father's Day. I could have bitched. Instead I just said "Oh boy, shrimp scampi for life!". I think she was testing me on that one.

Posted: 12/16/2010 12:03:14 PM EDT

[#18]

I am a mechanic I get tools for christmas,you know the ones "as seen on tv".All I can say as I throw them in the trash is ITS THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS!!! I am sorry if that sounds bad but if you enjoy your knuckles and work with tools daily you get it.

Posted: 12/16/2010 12:03:25 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I don't get it. You should've just gone and bought it for yourself, wrapped it yourself, put it under the tree TO HondaCiv FROM HondaCiv. Picking out your own presents isn't fun to me.

your a girl and that doesn't FEEL right.........................we are guys we KNOW what we want

returning shitty gifts that other get me because they don't know shit about that type item, isn't fun for me.

So if someone ask you what you want you don't tell them ? If you do it's the same thing................

Actually, I have a pretty good reputation for being a fantastic gift giver. You know why? Because I pay attention.

On the other hand, I usually end up with a bunch of stuff that I don't like. I'm horribly hard to buy for.

On the third hand (?!), I still hate Christmas.

Posted: 12/16/2010 12:14:57 PM EDT

[#20]

Its either the flashlight you don't want, or a fleshlight. Think about it.

Posted: 12/16/2010 12:25:14 PM EDT

[#21]

One time I asked for Hatch Operator Shorty gloves, size M, in black from any one of these sites. Had like 5 sites listed.

Got a pair of work gloves form the local sporting good store.

They sit in my closet. Never worn, tag still on them.

Posted: 12/16/2010 12:53:35 PM EDT

[#22]

Vic Romano: "Sometimes Ya gotta put Them in a headlock, Ken. Otherwise They just don't listen!"

The Ol' Crew Chief

Posted: 12/16/2010 1:45:28 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
Look on the bright side - you've got a woman that's easily persuaded by strangers ...oh wait

Just be glad she doesn't bring back some magic beans.

What you did there...I see it

Posted: 12/16/2010 1:47:59 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Sometimes womenz can't follow directions.

No shit.

As she was heading out the door to go grocery shopping, I told the wife to pick up a case of MGD. What does she bring home instead? Miller High Life Lite. Why? Because it was on sale.

You better get your wife in line. Thats a major offense.

Posted: 12/16/2010 1:56:58 PM EDT

[#25]

I know the feeling. Mrs. Dual told my MIL I was "into flashlights" (Meaning Fenix, SureFire, Streamlight, Petzl etc.) when I found out I immediately facepalmed. I KNEW it would be some dollar-store thing.

I pick out exactly what I want, and my parents get it for me. (Dad and Stepmother), My mother gets me a gift card for Midway or Brownell's. (so it's not cash that Mrs. Dual can spend out from under me...)

We've had the "no gifts for each other, save the hassle" deal for years now, which I constantly violate.

This year Mrs. Dual actually got me something out of the blue, Call of Duty Black Ops, and a Wii zapper for it. Not something I wanted, but it is something I think will be fun.

Posted: 12/16/2010 2:02:42 PM EDT

[#26]

If you specifically want something, buy it yourself.

Never rely on someone else to get it right.

Posted: 12/16/2010 2:05:11 PM EDT

[#27]

The one she got is probably tier 1

Posted: 12/16/2010 3:05:31 PM EDT

[#28]

I have one for you. I wanted an E Collar for training dogs. When I was thinking of doing that for a living.
I showed my Wife the one I wanted I gave her the money to buy it with and what do I get. A picture frame with many pieces of Barbed Wire that have been made through out the History of Barbed Wire. Talk about a WTF. So now the joke for the last 10 years has been. Atleast it's not Barbed wire.

Posted: 12/16/2010 3:13:38 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
I have done the same thing and gotten pretty much the same results.

I have even gone so far as to put it all in Excel complete with model numbers and price.
I still end up with a fooking bag of socks.

Worksheet2.xls

Yea, I do that too

Posted: 12/16/2010 3:24:16 PM EDT

[#30]

If somone hounds me I tell them get a me a gift certificate

Posted: 12/16/2010 3:29:01 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
There's an easy way to avoid all this stressful holiday shopping bullshit. Buy what you want, when you want it and tell the spouse "this what you got me for Christmas".

This. It's the only wat to be sure. I do it every year.

Posted: 12/16/2010 3:32:48 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Sometimes womenz can't follow directions.

No shit.

As she was heading out the door to go grocery shopping, I told the wife to pick up a case of MGD. What does she bring home instead? Miller High Life Lite. Why? Because it was on sale.

Whoa..... what kind of beatdown did that entail

Posted: 12/16/2010 3:39:46 PM EDT

[#33]

Ive always just told em to get me ammo.

For years the ex wouldnt do it, she would buy this n that. All nice things, but just things I guess.

Finally she started buying me ammo, and it amazed her how happy it made me.

I would make a big deal out of the specific ammo she bought, always making sure it was pointed out from the rest, and always used it when she was around.

miss her sometimes

Posted: 12/16/2010 3:43:43 PM EDT

[#34]

Huh. I told my lady to buy me a 30 pack of Milwaukees Best at the liquor store, and she brought home an 18 pack of bud light. I was pissed.

Let the haters hate

Posted: 12/16/2010 3:45:28 PM EDT

[#35]

I've been out of town for work all week. Wife unit just e-mailed me this.

Clarke,
You bought me a Seiko watch for Christmas. It has no battery-recharges itself with movement! Nice!
love,
Diane

Hope she likes it.

Posted: 12/16/2010 3:46:02 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
I wouldnt see that as a bad thing.
While the guy is taking advantage of her, she evidently thinks enough of you that she is willing to call you and share that information in the hopes that she can get you an even better present.

Or I could be giving her incredibly too much credit.

You have the right attitude...

I know it's a pain in the ass but yeah, sounds like a good gal. As if you have to be told....

Posted: 12/16/2010 3:47:53 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
Look on the bright side - you've got a woman that's easily persuaded by strangers ...oh wait

Just be glad she doesn't bring back some magic beans.

If she did, we could set up an arfcom giant safari and go get that son of a bitch's golden-egg-laying duck.

Posted: 12/16/2010 3:50:42 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
I am a mechanic I get tools for christmas,you know the ones "as seen on tv".All I can say as I throw them in the trash is ITS THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS!!! I am sorry if that sounds bad but if you enjoy your knuckles and work with tools daily you get it.

HAHAHAHA
Yeah I work on car's all day as well and one year my mom got me one of those cheap tool set's and the very first time I used the wratchet the gears let loose and I smashed my hand right into a exhaust manifold

Posted: 12/16/2010 3:54:44 PM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
So I told her one of the things I wanted was a flashlight. I picked out the Surefire I wanted, printed it off, and off she went to Bass Pro. An hour later I get a call from her, and she said that the dude behind the counter said that what I REALLY needed was some what-the-fuck brand Delta Tactical flashlight.

So she calls me to tell me about how this other what-the-fuck brand flashlight has so many advantages, is more tacticooler, and oh, costs twice as much.

*sigh*

I hope she at least saves the receipt.

Dood...a chick doesn't know about these things. Its like sending her out to by a dot scope and being pissed she comes back with a Tasco because the guy behind the counter says its better. Next time just tell her to get you whatever and leave the gun acessory buying to you

Posted: 12/16/2010 3:55:04 PM EDT

[#40]

While she did not complete the mission. Her mistake was to get you something better than what you asked for.

I would give her a pass on this one. It shows good character on her part.

Posted: 12/16/2010 4:03:41 PM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:
Sometimes womenz can't follow directions.

SOMETIMES?????????????

Posted: 12/16/2010 4:23:03 PM EDT

[#42]

We need pics of said wife AND the flashlight in question for your Arfcom brethren to pass proper judgment

Posted: 12/16/2010 5:31:32 PM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:
Look on the bright side - you've got a woman that's easily persuaded by strangers ...oh wait

Just be glad she doesn't bring back some magic beans.

and even more so some other type of seed.

Posted: 12/16/2010 5:33:23 PM EDT

[#44]

she's banging the dude behind the counter

Posted: 12/16/2010 5:57:58 PM EDT

[#45]

Yup. All you have to do is make sure that ***YOU*** screw up with some of HER Christmas presents - and from that point on - you'll just be responsible for buying your OWN Christmas presents!

Posted: 12/16/2010 6:03:04 PM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:
Huh. I told my lady to buy me a 30 pack of Milwaukees Best at the liquor store, and she brought home an 18 pack of bud light. I was pissed.

Let the haters hate

I wouldn't be complaining.

Posted: 12/16/2010 6:04:43 PM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:

she's banging the dude behind the counter

QFT!

Posted: 12/16/2010 6:12:01 PM EDT

[#48]

Bigger is better to most wimminz (ain't that the truth). I was thinking about a ground blind for bowhunting and my now wife bought me the colossal largest model that had. Almost takes 5 people to set it up. So I set it up and left it out there for 2 seasons. Motherfucker looks like new still! Why won't it die! Same with a tackle box. She bought me one that looks like it was made by Samsonite because it was undoubtedly the most expensive one they had. Ahhh, gotta love her.

A guy I work with asked for one of those Night Eyez red LEDs that clips on your had. Every year for 4 years he got "They didn't have what you wanted so I got you this." After he divorced his 4th wife he went out and bought the motherfucker for himself. He said he would get a Maglite one year, one year he got a POS Colghans kids camping lantern, on year he got a POS head lamp, etc, etc.

His last wife he asked for a dozen custom arrows for his bow and even went so far as to have them picked out at the store with all the info there for the guy to make them under his name. He got a saddle on year (his wife liked horses, he didn't) and the next year he got a fucking log chain. Hahaha.

This year the wife got me some custom gun leather, Magpul Dynamic Shotgun, a range bag and pmags.

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