Every time my husband goes out of town, something bad happens.

[Sparkly]

It's not like what it sounds. It's either the cat starts throwing up, or my car breaks down, and it's usually something I make worse trying to fix.

Once when he left a minor flood appeared in the basement. I called a plumber who turned it into a major flood (don't ask) so then I had to call somebody to get rid of the water and dry it out, and their dryer fans drilled holes into the rugs, so then I had to take the rugs to be repaired, meanwhile the floor warped...

So this morning he left, and within an hour -- ZAP!! -- my computer broke. The monitor doesn't see the computer or vice-versa. We have other computers so I'm using a different one, but the network isn't working, possibly because of the laptop he took with him, so I can't access my files.

Should I try taking my computer to a computer repair place, or with my luck will it come back as some form of toaster?

Should I not tell him, then when he gets back ask him to check something on my computer, and let him think he broke it?

What would you do? :shrug:

[Bunny]

1. What would I do? Quit letting him leave town!

;)

[Sparkly]

2. I shoulda thought of that

Maybe he knows when something's about to happen so he plans his trips to avoid it... :tinfoilhat:

[Mika]

8. Or, have you thought of this?

Maybe he secretly enjoys coming home to fix things up, and plans trips according to some kind of need for some mr fixit activity?

Who knows. :shrug:


Me? I love coming home to something broken. }(

[Sparkly]

10. Oooh, motivation!

I'd hate for him to feel unneeded... Makes me want to experiment with the four different Tv/VCR/DVD/CD remotes I've never figured out. ("I have no idea why it's doing that!") O8)

[Maat]

3. Hey, the same thing always happens to me!

This time was not as bad - he's been gone for four days - and returns tonight. The rat sisters' (our pets) water dispenser broke (that's fine - I managed to buy something at the pet store) and rigged something, although be it somewhat lamely), and my kid, for some unknown reason, starting jumping on my home office futon and broke it! Oh, well. I got her to school and back for four days, and threatened her with Daddy not bringing her a present if she gave Mom too much trouble.

My hubby only wants the house to be basically standing, and the daughter to be alive (just joking - it's a mother-daughter thing).

Computer is still working, thus far.

Hey, just be honest. He'll be a good husband, and help take care of the problem when he gets home.

[Sparkly]

4. Isn't it weird?!

Of course I'll tell him, and ask him what to do. (That way whatever happens next isn't completely my fault!) :)

Sounds like you dealt with your malfunctions creatively and effectively!

[Maat]

5. LOL!

Before we were blessed with Beloved Daughter, he used to be in computer modeling for the oil and gas industry, and he traveled all over the world, and was even in the Soviet Union when it collapsed (called me from London, after he had slept throughout his flight, and said people had been acting awfully weird over there). Everything always when wrong - especially when he was in the middle of rural China or something. I just got used to laughing at it. I called who I needed to call to fix whatever...

[Sparkly]

14. Wow...

You stayed calm while he was in the collapsing Soviet Union and rural China?! You are a stronger woman than me! I'm a chronic worrier. I even worry he's going to lose his Italian temper in the airport and go off at the guys with the wands who make him take his shoes off -- I've seen him get close!

(Him: "What, now the belt? You want me to get naked to get on a plane?!"
Tight-pants wand guy: "That's a very strong statement, sir."
Him: "You're damn right it is, so sue me for free speech!"
Me: "Calm down! Do - what - they - say!") I'm always afraid they're going to take him to a "special room" and I'll never see him again.

And I never know who to call for problems with the house. My parents didn't own their house until my Dad retired -- I grew up in "campus housing" at a college, so my role-model for fixing things was "Call physical plant." ("The furnace broke, call physical plant." "The livingroom needs paint, I'm calling physical plant." "Your sister locked herself in the bathroom again, somebody call physical plant!") One day I found myself in my 20s and on my own in a crisis not knowing who to call, and finally asked, "Who the HELL is physical plant??!"

I STILL never know who to call.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. The computer broke?

And your monitor isn't working?

And the network went south?

Don't go near the TV or the CD player, okay?

Maybe you should also stay out of the kitchen. You know .... just to be on the safe side.

It sure is nice to be wanted (or at least indispensible).

:silly: <----Sparkly

:hug: <----Me and Sparkly

(ps: I spoke to her on the phone before posting this. So far, no calamity that's serious)

By the way ...... you did check that faucet on the pipe that tends to freeze, didn't you? 'Spossa be 8 degrees there tonight.

[Sparkly]

9. Hey!

(ps: I spoke to her on the phone before posting this. So far, no calamity that's serious)

No other calamities that I've mentioned, anyway. You'll find out when you return.

And what's with that picture of me? You know I don't look like that! (Morning doesn't count.)

[wildeyed]

7. Well that's what you get for marrying a pothead!

He leaves and the whole place goes to pot ;)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=236x2899

[Sparkly]

11. LOL!

Hey, it's a nice copper pot collection... It'd be a shame if anything should happen to it...

[Stinky The Clown]

12. Nice piano ya got there in the living room .........

wanna talk about it?:evilgrin:

[Sparkly]

19. Hey, it's not like I go around trolling for new pianos

and sneaking them into the livingroom, the way you keep sneaking in those copper pots... I'll confess to pleading for that one Steinway that one time, and yeah maybe doing some measuring to figure out how to accomodate two pianos in our livingroom (it's not like we NEED furniture for sitting around on, I still say) and maybe throwing a minor fit when you insisted one grand piano was enough. But other than that, I've been perfectly reasonable.

By the way, do you care much about that antique ashtray you've got in there? I mean, it's just an OLD thing, right? O8)

[Bouncy Ball]

13. Man, my cat yaks all the freaking time.

So sorry!

Let him think he broke it.

:evilgrin:

[Sparkly]

15. haHA!! "Honey, you broke the cat."

"She was fine the whole time you were gone."

[Danmel]

16. That happens to me too

The worst was in February of 2003. My husband had taken the kids skiing the weekend before (I am orthopedically challenged and don't ski) and my daughter tore a ligament in her knee. He then left town a few days later to go skiing with some friends in Vermont.

Well we had gotten something like 14 inches of snow that week and then it started to pour like crazy- sheets of rain, 14 inches of melting snow and my basement was flooding. Every two hours I had to vacuum the basement. I was up something like 32 hours straight vacuuming so that the basement wouldn't be under water. One of my neighbors came over to help me move all the computer stuff and audio equipment and books so stuff wouldn't get water logged if I fell asleep.

So after being up 32 hours I had to take my injured daughter to the orthopedist. Of course after the flood, it got really cold again and the roads iced over and I got into a car accident on the way to the orthopedist,. Thankfully only the car got hurt, but it was just an incredibly crappy 3 days while he was having fun on the slopes, I was flooded, crunched and had to deal with a whiny injured 12 year old and her 9 year old brother.


He stil owes me for that one.

[Sparkly]

18. I shouldn't be laughing

but that is one for the record books! (If his first words were, "What happened to the car?" you'd be justified in decking him.)

He definitely owes you -- send him an invoice! (Three breakfasts in bed, two short trips abroad, one long cruise...)

[Arkana]

17. Put him under house arrest when he gets home

then get your computer fixed.