Wednesday, November 08, 2006

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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48 comments:

  1. Don't let him! If he pees on the juice boxes, he gets to decide where they go!

    I 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.

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  2. 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.

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  3. Did 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.

    Very strange how that happened.

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  4. 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!

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  5. oh my god...from one control freak to another...it's all about the systems...men will NEVER learn

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  6. This is funny! Sounds like our house, too. I'm always dictating.

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  7. OMG! 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.

    But 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.

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  8. I'm totally using this next time I get ordered around.

    "Honey, will you take out the garbage. Not like THAT, like..."

    "How about I pee on it?"

    Awesome.

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  9. 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.

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  10. I LOVE RIGEL!!!!!

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  11. OMG you sound just like my husband.

    I'm so using the "pee on it.." thing next time!!

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  12. 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?

    -annie

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  13. oh dear - i'm JUST like that over loading the dishwasher ... hope my old man's never peed in there!

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  14. You know, I always love your entries, but I think I love your tags even more.

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  15. I think your husband and mine could put away more than a few beers dicsussing the finer merits of their wives cupboards!

    Carrie

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  16. 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!

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  17. I'm so with you on the putting away the juice boxes! Why they always gotta be messin with our sytems?
    You've got to tell him the knock-knock joke:

    Knock knock!
    Who's there?
    Control Freak. Now YOU say, 'Control Freak who?'

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  18. 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.....

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  19. I 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.

    My system is two of his, one of mine LOL

    Mrs T - LOVE the knock knock joke.

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  20. 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.

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  21. I can so relate. Well, except for the peeing part. At least the straws are wrapped in a protectice plastic pee shield!

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  22. I think there is a book about this: "Women Are From Venus, Men Just Pee On It."

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  23. Being married to a control freak, I'm totally going to use that one!

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  24. So 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

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  25. P 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.

    I should have taken action when I had the chance. Rigel is my hero.

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  26. Oh, geez. Rigel is walking around here now, all puffed up like a rooster after all these glowing comments.

    I'm going to have to take him down a notch by making him re-stack all of my canned goods in alphabetical order.

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  27. 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...

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  28. I just showed this entry to Hubby...He wants to be Rigel's new best friend!!!

    LMAO!

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  29. LOL. I suddenly don't feel so guilty for my own freakishness.

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  30. LOL. I can be anal like that too!

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  31. That is too funny and sounds like something I would do when Mike was healping me!..lol...

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  32. HHHAAA!!! Oh Sweats...that was AWESOME. I just fell in love with Rigel. made me burst out laughing...thank you.

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  33. Just 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.

    Carry on.

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  34. Peeing on them is a system in it's own way....

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  35. "Have I told you lately...

    that I love you...?"

    Seriously, though.

    You're just great!

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  36. 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.

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  37. Of couse you have to mix them up!
    Sigh.
    Husbands, hopeless sometimes.

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  38. Hee! Oh, and "Me" sounds just like me.

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  39. Tell him if he pees on them, he has to create his own damn system.

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  40. That is just overly fantastic.

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  41. Men 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.

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  42. Oh, and your tage are hi-larious.

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  43. And when I say tage, I mean tags.

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  44. This one's just for fun.


    :)


    Okay, I'm done now.

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  45. You sound like someone I know. You'd hate the state of my pantry.

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  46. How would the peeing fit into your system?:-))

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