Hubby asks me to spend a few minutes with him to go over the floor plan for converting the garage into an apartment. I throw out the idea of having the bath closed off (of course) and having a nursery with walls and a door (instead of the walk-in closet originally planned) … and other than than – leaving the entire area open. That way the kids can arrange furniture how they like and although there won’t be a separate bedroom and living area – it’s temporary and the kids will be just fine.
Hubby adamantly (reads … getting all frustrated) tells me that we can’t do that. He says the area next to the bathroom will be a huge walk-in closet and that it can’t change because after the kids move out it’s going to be a wet-bar for his “man-room.” He says he needs to run plumbing to the area and it just can’t be a nursery.
He continues to ask for my input on the room and I get flustered because anything I say, he says we can’t do … that it ‘has’ to be this way or that way. I ask ‘what, exactly, do you want my input on then?’ Seems what he wanted was for me to get to the online site I used to lay out the floor plan (and if you ever need something like that – search for Bassestt Room Planner – it’s awesome … you can add walls, windows – it has just about every size or piece of furniture you could want to drop in to your room.)
After an hour of messing around with this – hubby has a GREAT idea. What about if we put the nursery where he had originally wanted the closet and then just left the rest of the area open?
Ummmm, ok. GREAT idea.
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January 9, 2010 at 5:21 am
kyooty
it’s it amazing how little time it takes them to come up with an idea?
January 9, 2010 at 3:45 pm
Mad Woman
Hahaha. Don’t you just love the way men think??
January 12, 2010 at 11:33 am
Fantastic Forrest
I am submitting your name for sainthood. The Pope will be in touch soon.
January 12, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Devilish Southern Belle
I have learned it’s less time-consuming and blood-pressure raising to just let the menfolk think they came up with this wonderful idea or that amazing plan all on their own.
My first husband still INSISTS that he thought of our two sons’ names when, in fact, he argued with me over my second son’s name. But lo and behold, someone else suggested it on down the line, and he liked it then, and decided that should be boy 2’s name.
I was incredulous to say the least. But that was just the first of many, many incidents with both him and the current hubby where they didn’t like an idea of mine, then later came up with it completely on their own. And if I hadn’t learned to somewhat let that go, I’d be living in a padded room by now.
This trait must truly be a man thing.