Rigel's Most Excellent Lesson On How To Tame
A Control Freak.
Me: Can you help me put these juice boxes away?
Rigel: Sure.
Me: Oh, not in that cupboard. In that one.
Me: Oh, don't take those out of the box. Stack the other ones on top.
Me: Oh, don't put all the Berry ones in the back. I mix them up. I have a system.
Rigel: How about I just pee all over them?
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tags: control freaks | people who don't stack juice boxes correctly
Don't let him! If he pees on the juice boxes, he gets to decide where they go!
ReplyDeleteI saw that once on the Discovery Channel, only instead of Rigel and juice boxes; it was lions and a antelope carcass.
Never let 'em pee, is my motto.
LMAO. Honest to god, my husband and I had an eerily similar conversation last night. But mine didn't offer to pee all over the juice boxes.
ReplyDeleteDid you become more of a control freak since your children were born? My wife and I have been having this discussion and she has become much more of a control freak once our Okapis were born. Now she is more "controlling" than I am.
ReplyDeleteVery strange how that happened.
You might be my wife's long-lost relative. Yesterday, I was instructed on how to properly put sippy cups in the dishwasher. Apparently there's a system involving color codes, sizes, and changing rotations. I didn't offer to pee on them but I did tell her that, from now on, I was just going to spit on them and wipe them clean with my socks. Good lord!
ReplyDeleteoh my god...from one control freak to another...it's all about the systems...men will NEVER learn
ReplyDeleteThis is funny! Sounds like our house, too. I'm always dictating.
ReplyDeleteOMG! I never knew that there was a system for stacking...ok cans went together and boxes went together and I really felt my oats, I separated soups from veggies.
ReplyDeleteBut wife.imp will go behind me, still, and restack the dishwasher, refold the clothes...really, I am much better off letting her do it her way and watching my sports on t.v.
I'm totally using this next time I get ordered around.
ReplyDelete"Honey, will you take out the garbage. Not like THAT, like..."
"How about I pee on it?"
Awesome.
HAHAHAHAHA. I love you guys. You sound like us, although the peeing on it one is new. Ooohhh I can't wait to say that to hubby.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE RIGEL!!!!!
ReplyDeleteOMG you sound just like my husband.
ReplyDeleteI'm so using the "pee on it.." thing next time!!
Being an all out control freak, I sympathize with you. I just want to know - did you make sure he peed from right to left?
ReplyDelete-annie
oh dear - i'm JUST like that over loading the dishwasher ... hope my old man's never peed in there!
ReplyDeleteYou know, I always love your entries, but I think I love your tags even more.
ReplyDeleteI think your husband and mine could put away more than a few beers dicsussing the finer merits of their wives cupboards!
ReplyDeleteCarrie
LOL! That was just the right comment if you ask me. But, I am OCD about stuff too, so I know where you are coming from!
ReplyDeleteI'm so with you on the putting away the juice boxes! Why they always gotta be messin with our sytems?
ReplyDeleteYou've got to tell him the knock-knock joke:
Knock knock!
Who's there?
Control Freak. Now YOU say, 'Control Freak who?'
I hate it when my guy puts stuff away...I have to go back in and redo it, even if it is almost right. Sick.....
ReplyDeleteI am SO with you! We do that with the milk boxes. We buy fat-free (for me) and reduced fat milk (for him). And I swear this conversation took place in our very own house.
ReplyDeleteMy system is two of his, one of mine LOL
Mrs T - LOVE the knock knock joke.
Rigel's funny. I stopped complaining or really asking Roy to do anything that I know he won't do the right way. I think it was all a part of his evil slacker plan.
ReplyDeleteI can so relate. Well, except for the peeing part. At least the straws are wrapped in a protectice plastic pee shield!
ReplyDeleteI think there is a book about this: "Women Are From Venus, Men Just Pee On It."
ReplyDeleteBeing married to a control freak, I'm totally going to use that one!
ReplyDeleteSo long as he's sure that once he's done peeing on them they're disinfected properly in the right order (rince, bleach, soaped, rinced, bleach dipped and dried) it should be fine :P
ReplyDeleteP has already unilaterally declared that certain rooms are hers: her kitchen, her bathroom, her bedroom etc. I am allowed in on sufferance. If I am not performing a specific task ai ma to go into a holding pattern and await instructions. Similarly if I become confused as to how a task is performed I should put up my hands and not touch anything until the matter is clarified. I live in the garden shed these days.
ReplyDeleteI should have taken action when I had the chance. Rigel is my hero.
Oh, geez. Rigel is walking around here now, all puffed up like a rooster after all these glowing comments.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to have to take him down a notch by making him re-stack all of my canned goods in alphabetical order.
You crack me up! And Rigel is so funny. I have a feeling that if your hubby and mine were to go have a beer together, they'd come back best buds...
ReplyDeleteI just showed this entry to Hubby...He wants to be Rigel's new best friend!!!
ReplyDeleteLMAO!
That is awesome. LMAO.
ReplyDeleteYou two are hilarious.
ReplyDeleteLOL. I suddenly don't feel so guilty for my own freakishness.
ReplyDeleteLOL. I can be anal like that too!
ReplyDeleteThat is too funny and sounds like something I would do when Mike was healping me!..lol...
ReplyDeleteHHHAAA!!! Oh Sweats...that was AWESOME. I just fell in love with Rigel. made me burst out laughing...thank you.
ReplyDeleteJust delurking to say: You know how people say LOL, but they're not really laughing out loud, or anything close to it? I laughed out loud.
ReplyDeleteCarry on.
Peeing on them is a system in it's own way....
ReplyDelete"Have I told you lately...
ReplyDeletethat I love you...?"
Seriously, though.
You're just great!
I will not share Rigel's comeback line with my husband, because I know all I'll hear when I instruct him on my "systems" is, "How about I just pee all over the (fill in the blank)." Very funny.
ReplyDeleteOf couse you have to mix them up!
ReplyDeleteSigh.
Husbands, hopeless sometimes.
Hee! Oh, and "Me" sounds just like me.
ReplyDeleteTell him if he pees on them, he has to create his own damn system.
ReplyDeleteThat is just overly fantastic.
ReplyDeleteMen are just so superior--being able to pee on anything, anywhere, at anytime. Like on a long car ride and your bladder is bursting and they just say "Yeah, I have to go too. Hey, there's a bush!" and they pull over. Grr.
ReplyDeleteOh, and your tage are hi-larious.
ReplyDeleteAnd when I say tage, I mean tags.
ReplyDeleteThis one's just for fun.
ReplyDelete:)
Okay, I'm done now.
You sound like someone I know. You'd hate the state of my pantry.
ReplyDeleteHow would the peeing fit into your system?:-))
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