Might also be one of those cumulative things. Over time, it all adds up to ulcers!

 

My husband had his eye on a nice used carrier. It was to be "adventurous" but then it went and got stuck in the mud. Intrepid my foot!

 

Gotta be careful with some of those used carriers. Some are haunted, like the USS Hornet, and probably the "Evil I" also. she took a few Kamikaze hits in the Second Great Unpleasantness.

 

The amount of effort I'd need to exert to get married would be about the same as the effort I'd need to exert to walk out in the street and get hit by a car, but hopefully without the same result (or something else just as bad). Anyone can get married, I think the trick is marrying the right person.

That being said, my gf is awesome, but there is probably a thing or 2 for us to agree (aka comprimise ) on before I pop "the question".

 

Stop mocking my aircraft carrier

I have lots of contacts on this subject and can get a used battleship discounted ...

You do NOT want one of these showing up on your doorstep lobbing 16" shells at your MINI

 

I know the USS Iowa is still sitting in Benecia Bay out here. Grab it before it is moved to Stockton.

 

well said, well put, you get it my friend.

 

My g/f has no intrest in the MINI. She has her eyes set on a new Camry (yuck) as soon as her 95' Civic dies. She thinks it rides too rough..

 

That's what I think about Glove's mustang. Well, more like when it
takes corners I always picture us flying off the road to our deaths.
I was offered to drive it- but I gladly passed the offer
He HAS driven the MINI though

 

Yikes. I'll definatly be setting up my marriage like my parents. Seperate accounts, seperate money, and divide up the bills so they're more or less equal. I'd love to be able to buy my wife a car as a gift, but she better not expect one as a right of being married.

 

my I be so bold as to recommend a cattle guard?

 

It's not all about the car. It's about respect. If you damage a prized possession of a wife, husband, girlfriend, or boyfriend through negligence then compound the infraction by saying "It's just a car."; that's being very disrespectful of your partner.

"Honey, I dropped a cast iron skillet in the sink and chipped it!" -- Hey, accidents happen. Fix it and move on

"Honey, I needed some gas and was low on cash so I used one of your $20 gold pieces. It's the same thing as a $20 bill, what's the big deal?" -- That's inexcusable disrespect.

If your partner really cares about something, you should treat it the same as they do out of respect for them. That should go for BOTH parties.

I'm just glad for the original poster that the damage is easy and cheap to fix. Why shouldn't he be upset if something he obviously values is damaged?

Rawhyde

 

agreed

 

Just a teeny scrape on the plastic?

My wife does things big. Several months ago she backed out of the driveway in her SUV and sideswiped the passenger side of Swifty, estimates from $800 to $1500 to fix. Still waiting for other b.s. to be resolved before getting HER to pay.

It's also the 4th fenderbender she had something to do with. Whenever I bent something, I was having too much fun moments before.

I better stop...

 

My wife is still in Med school, so she isn't making a dime. Therefore, ours is ours but earned by me. We talk about major purchases and we have bank accounts; one join and two personal. The bulk of the money is in the joint account. Whenever I get a bonus or she gets money from mom and dad, it goes into our personal accounts. It's worked so far.

 

Geee, should I fall into this thread?

Marriage is like your own business. You can start it in one day but all the paperwork, financial distributions, etc. to stop it takes months, if not more than a year. :impatient

"She" wrecked or damaged every car she ever drove regularly. I was okay with that, she never got hurt or hurt anyone. They were just cars. in the same 26-years I had a deer run into the side of me.


She's left now, vacated, and I gave her my Expedition, though it's 9-years old now. It was my baby before the MCS. Two weeks ago she took out a bunch of those orange construction barrels on the X-way, the right turn signal assembly, and a whole bunch of scratches. She's fine and didn't get hurt. Most of the day at the ER trying to figure out why she was in a daze. She later that night realized she was missing a sleeping pill from her large quantity of meds she's on. So, with a little love left I must say . . . . Anyway, please tell me, why did the spouse who left get a great drop in insurance costs while mine actually remained nearly unchanged without the Exped? I was ranting uselessly with my agent that the one who wrecked everything left! It fell upon deaf ears and I'm insurance shopping.

Life is unfair.

But hey, I got the house and the MCS. And the bills. And the support order. And the health order.

 

Uh-oh...I hope this is a joke, Max!

 

I've met Max's wife and is absolutely charming. If she's smart she'll get out while she can.

 

Hmmm. She's charming, huh?

 

You just like her accent.......

 

I feel your pain. My wife does stuff like that too. I got the MINI S for her so she would not bother my M3. But I made sure it as a stick and an S with better wheels. Hell I may have to take it out on the track.........er get traction sorry honey. We have 4 cars and her other one is a 05 Toyota SUV which she can not hurt. So I have to remind her to park in the right space, angled entry of steep drive and dips, don’t slam the doors or yank them faster than the auto widow comes down. Then theres take it easy when you just start it up, or watch the curb rash or who you park next to. So you hve to walk a few spaces to get a end spot. Its like I am speaking a different language. On thing though she has had 2-3 stick cars and had a class 2 license once so maybe it will come back to her. So it may not be all lost.
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Remember: It's Cheaper to Keep Her!

 

WOW, there sure is a lot of mine/her stuff being posted here. My wife and I have been married for 10 years now and TBH, if she scraped the car (which she did one time), the very first words out of my mouth were "are YOU ok?". Bottom line is that is just a car and women don't work or think the same way men do. If you respond with the above posted garbage, she probably thinks you care more about the car than her thus she responded in kind.

Lastly, I would never post in a public forum blasting my wife. I'll have several cars in my life but plan to keep her for life.

 

Wow,

I feel lucky that my wife is so terrified of driving the MINI because she's worried about something happening to it. She's waiting for me to get the first ding then she'll borrow it from time to time.

I'm with Chow's - when all is said in done, it's a joint ownership thing.

swizzle

 

Best way to keep your spouse from driving your MINI: Get two !



Kidding ... my fiance and I switch MINIs every now and again, just for kicks.