Husband tell, Wife says
Guys, we love you, we really do. But as wonderful as you are, every so often you do something that makes us want to jump out the nearest window or push you out first. hehe Please, please, don’t ever...
1. Offer to “babysit” your own kids. When your 16-year-old neighbor does it, it’s called babysitting. When a parent does it, it’s called child care, and it lasts almost until "magdadalaga/magbibinata". Get it?
2. Imply that office work is harder than housework. At the end of a hard day, there may be smoke coming out of your ears, but let’s face it: You’ve basically been sitting on your butt in ur offc. That same smoke is coming out of our ears too—but we’ve cleaned the house, shuttled the kids around, run errands all and lugged grocery bags besides. When we say we’re exhausted, we are exhausted.
3. Give a home appliance as a gift. Forgive us if we can’t work it up for this one. An automatic washing machine? Really? ;)
4. Buy us the perfume. Under our crew-neck shirts may beat the heart of an untamed bull — but most of us don’t want to smell like one.
5. Brag about your driving. This is supposed to let us know that ours isn’t so great. If my husband tells me one more time that he’s been “accident-free since 1978,” I’m going to reach over, grab the wheel and make the car swerve into something, just to shut him up.
6. Be unimpressed by a meal that took a lot of time and trouble. I don’t know whose fault this is but very so often we get the idea that it would be fun to make stock and spend the day basting and stewing. If the result is less than earth-shattering, say something nice anyway.
7. Buy clothes without trying them on. We know that the second you get into a department store you start to feel faint, but do us a favor and take the extra five minutes. Otherwise, you know who gets stuck with the returns?
8. Say anything remotely critical about our new haircut. Sometimes getting a new cut goes well; sometimes it doesn’t. Usually we know the difference. Don’t rub it in.
9. Expect a medal for doing a little housework. Umm...it’s your house too, right? For now, we’ll give you the bronze. Maybe someday, if you work hard enough, you can pick up a gold.
