Things you wish you could say

[Ponypoor]

Do it!
Been married 40 years and my husband still thinks the Toilet Paper Fairy brings the extra rolls when he uses the last one.

Yes it gets replaced by magic doesn’t it!

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh I get that. But sometimes you just need to tell someone what they’re doing/saying isn’t the smartest thing you’ve seen/heard.

If you learned French then you could say it with a smile and make it sound exotic

 

[MROO]

He is my nephew, I would never block him.
And I am an adult, I would never send him annoying messages just to annoy. Grow up

So, respond with a stoopid meme or Dad Joke, instead. Turn something annoying into something fun for you!

 

[MROO]

That's right! Back in the day it was called, "Two wrongs don't make a right."

But three lefts do, so send him silly stuff, too!

 

[MROO]

Now that I posted the reply to BigBlueHen post, I forgot what I want to say when I go into this post... I wish I can remember..

I wish I could say that you're the only one who does that ...

 

[BigBlueHen53]

But three lefts do, so send him silly stuff, too!

It sounds like ... he is lonely, maybe? Trying to engage and not very good at it? Sharing things that are of interest to him. Probably not deliberately trying to annoy.

 

[MROO]

We have been married almost 50yrs - and he still says he does not know where I keep (insert almost anything in the house) though as we have lived here for almost 35yrs and I seldom rearrange anything??
So I am tempted to say "B!@#Y Man"

DS was always telling me, "I don't know how to do that" or, "I don't know where that goes." I solved a lot by posting a tongue-in-cheek list of "Things DS Knows How to Do" with things like "take out trash, empty a litter box, put away laundry." and another poster showing obvious put-away photos, like the inside of the dish cabinet the silverware drawer and the half-loaded dishwasher. He grumbles, but at least a few obvious tasks get done ... sometimes!

 

[Ponypoor]

Please don't do this. I do not want to get a text everyday about some music group that I don't care about.
Back story: my nephew(he's 28 years old) sends out text messages with certain themes for certain months. This month it is Mike's March music medley, where he will highlight one music group for each day of March. In October, he highlighted a scary movie villain everyday. Last July, it was some other dumb theme. I'm so tired of it and I did say something to him but he didn't listen

Hmmmm that’s a hard one. People want others to have as much joy and fun from their hobbies as they do. Many just cannot understand how others don’t get the same enjoyment out of things.

Though at 28 he should understand boundaries and take into consideration others feelings.

I had a similar situation, and started to reciprocate with photos and stories of my horses - when they made a snide comment about my horses durimg a family visit, I explained that I received much joy from the horses, as much as he did with the (noisy) dirt bike.

Seems though, young guys seem to feel that the dirt bikes where chick magnets.

I reminded him that girls were more interested in horses than the bikes and how many girls did he really get with his bike.

Message received! He stopped sending out all the photos and such, I am surprised he didn’t ask about learning to ride horses

 

[tlcmurphy]

Hmmmm that’s a hard one. People want others to have as much joy and fun from their hobbies as they do. Many just cannot understand how others don’t get the same enjoyment out of things.

Though at 28 he should understand boundaries and take into consideration others feelings.

I had a similar situation, and started to reciprocate with photos and stories of my horses - when they made a snide comment about my horses durimg a family visit, I explained that I received much joy from the horses, as much as he did with the (noisy) dirt bike.

Seems though, young guys seem to feel that the dirt bikes where chick magnets.

I reminded him that girls were more interested in horses than the bikes and how many girls did he really get with his bike.

Message received! He stopped sending out all the photos and such, I am surprised he didn’t ask about learning to ride horses

We’ve been included in family group chats many times, simply asking to be removed from the group chat hurts no feelings.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Same here. DGS treats me like furniture unless he has some (to him) hilarious story to share about tech stuff, which to me is like he is speaking a foreign language. I just go, Oh really? Hum. And then what? I laugh when he laughs and he thinks I'm the smartest person in the room. Which, of course, I am.