Funny talk w the wife

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ScampMike said:
I'm guessing I am VERY lucky - if it weren't for my girl the 83 Harley would certainly have taken me twice as long - think really cool Xmas presents.., she totally supported me when I bought the Scamp - and hasn't said too much about the fact that my "ready to drive/it's not a project car" has been apart almost as much as it's be together.., and a couple of weeks ago I bought an enclosed trailer for it (that she felt - and said I didn't really need) ..even though she had serious reservations about the entire deal - it is in my back yard :thumbsup: . Never a negative word when parts show up - I get "hey, you got a box today" and I can't tell you how many times she has talked me "off the ledge" when some part of an upgrade or repair isn't going just right... ahh. Dang it -now I'm going to have to go home and be nice to her.. again.. :lol:
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So obviously she is also a FABO member or gets into your account when you are not there. :D
 
Sheesh some of yah need to learn to take a joke!

Here's another one for ya. Wives always take away from the hookers and blow fund!
 
I think some of you misunderstood my initial question. She loves me to dearly, doesnt mind that i spend money on the car stuff, or work in my shop.

Its that when i am home for an extended period of time where i cannot get my car talk fix with my gearhead buddies at work i drive her nuts w car stuff. I cant help it its my obsession, and i want to share my world w her. She shares her things w me and i show interest in her stuff too. Maybe i shouldent bother her with it, and just do my thing.

Does your obsessions like cars, sports, motorcycles, guns etc drive your wife nuts when you talk to her about it

She really doesnt have any other interests besides her plants, facebook, and her online games. Like words with friends and ruzzle. I do help her with her plants when asked. Moving them around, drilling holes in new plastic pots for drainage etc.
 
My wife doesn't care about what goes on out in the garage, but always tells me that she is going to be lost if anything happens to me! She'll sell everything for pennies on the dollar because she doesn't really know what it is! She wants to help, and I would gladly allow her to, but she is too afraid to jump in and do things! She did spend a couple weeks with me scraping all of the undercoating off the bottom of her car, and spent her own money to rebuild the motor! I told her I would pay her if she blasts and paints items for me, or lists parts and packs and ships them! Hasn't happened yet!! Same for my son, he wants extra money, I give him emblems and trim, set up a profile here for him, doesn't do it, so I don't give him money!!!
 
Hey Geof,

Thats great way to get em involved. Your offering for them to help. It would have been cool if your wife could have helped assemble the engine with you. It might have been a thrill for her to fire it up the first time after having a hand in its rebuild.

As an instructor which is one of my many work hats i get into the detail of things with trainees and just not the off the top reasons or instructions on how to do something, but the why you do something. Sometimes on a level or a way they can relate to.

Start with small projects. Dissassembling and rebuilding seat tracks. Once done, repainted, and greased its ready for installation. As restored, painted and done part. An accomplishment. Dissassembling ckeaning and rebuilding a headlight switch, then checking it with an ohm meter. Maybe rebuilding the UCAs and LCAs. Always take before and after pix. Its always good to see start and end.

With most folks dissassembling and restoring a whole car can be very intimidating. You teach pieces of it, this way eventually you fill in the dots to show the whole picture.

For some its hard because all the scraping, blasting, painting seems to take forever. A lot of times people want to see the fruits of their labor, and something this large sometimes its hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I have done enough of em that even though my project is stalled a bit for the moment, i can envision the end result.

If all else fails start making an itemized list with corresponding numbered boxes of all your stuff with a value on all of it. Keep the list in a safe deposit box, gun safe etc. This way at least she dont get taken advantage of when you pass on. naybe your son will want to pick up the torch and inherit your tools cars parts etc.
 
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We discussed this thread further tonight. I read rhru some of the responses with her, we both had some laughs over some of it, and she says

"i get your whole automotive lifestyle i really do, i love to go the car cruises and to car shows with you because i really do like looking at all the different stuff that people built, i admire that you have passion for your hobby. I am just not into it like you are". It sometines consumes you and thats whats on your brain all the time. And i cant help it, i eat, sleep and breathe mopars. Its a sickness, that keeps me out of trouble.

Actually thats not on my brain all the time, also whats on my mind is figuring out what next to buy, sell, or trade parts for parts funds, or parts for my projects. Lol.
 
CudaChick1968 said:
From the other side of the spectrum, I've been a motorhead my whole life and have vigorously supported my men's automotive interests through the years. If it wasn't for my Cuda and its predecessors, I would never have met most of the men in my life.

After 13 years of sharing a shop with Billy though, I have to agree with Rainy. I'm a very organized person and he is just the opposite. When he can't find a tool on his bench or in the roller cabinet he immediately finds mine ... because it's where it's supposed to be. Worse yet, he rarely returns it and I have to go looking through his piles of crap everywhere when I need it.
I want to know about the Hersheys chocolate syrup
Pictures being worth a thousand words ahemmmmmmmmm lol ... I present His and Hers.

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Sometimes sharing common interests can interfere with getting the work done.

Matt, I hope you get back on your feet soon darlin! Hang in there and make the best of it.
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moparmat2000 said:
Ok guys,

A little backround. I have been home the last 2 weeks. Have a severe pinched nerve in my lower spine affect my left leg. Severe pain, and cant feel my toes. I'm on anti inflammatories and painnkillers. I have the ole spinal shot tomorrow.

Ok so we are eating lunch and she says. I love you so very much but i am ready for you to go back to work. She says your driving me nuts w the car stuff. I know you miss being at work and getting your outlet for that stuff there

Then she says i bet other wifes husbands drive em nuts with talk about sports, motorcycles, cars etc. We love y'all we really do but y'alls interests drive us wives nuts.

The good thing is she has no problems with me playing w my cars since it keeps me outta trouble lol. The funny thing is our son loves cars and will prob be similar to me with the mopars

What about you guys. Does your hobby/ obsession with mopars or other stuff drive your better half nuts.
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"Maybe IF" I had The '64 Dart 7 or 8 years ago I might not have an Ex-Wife as of 6 years ago, lmao.
Wish it would have worked out as I could have probably retired and bought a finished Hemi Dart and lived happily ever after.
Now I'm just a bitter ol' screw with a '64 that's a ***** to work on and won't be able to retire for another 5 or 6 years if lucky bwaha.
On a lighter note the live in girlfriend supports most everything I do except sitting on my *** and pouring money into my Chevy and Toyota transportation rigs (I could write a book on the travesty), once I get this nonsense under control The Dart needs deserved attention.
The plan is simple enough an interior, Holley Sniper, headers with electric cutouts and hit the boulevard when I am home for a quick pass as hard as it will go until I blow the rearend or motor and replace/upgrade.
Time to get off my *** and vacuum the rental car and work on building the shelves in the garage before I go to the bar and look for that guy with the Pontiac motor to swap into the Chevy thats been dead since 4th of July.
 
WorkingDog said:
"Maybe IF" I had The '64 Dart 7 or 8 years ago I might not have an Ex-Wife as of 6 years ago, lmao.
Wish it would have worked out as I could have probably retired and bought a finished Hemi Dart and lived happily ever after.
Now I'm just a bitter ol' screw with a '64 that's a ***** to work on and won't be able to retire for another 5 or 6 years if lucky bwaha.
On a lighter note the live in girlfriend supports most everything I do except sitting on my *** and pouring money into my Chevy and Toyota transportation rigs (I could write a book on the travesty), once I get this nonsense under control The Dart needs deserved attention.
The plan is simple enough an interior, Holley Sniper, headers with electric cutouts and hit the boulevard when I am home for a quick pass as hard as it will go until I blow the rearend or motor and replace/upgrade.
Time to get off my *** and vacuum the rental car and work on building the shelves in the garage before I go to the bar and look for that guy with the Pontiac motor to swap into the Chevy thats been dead since 4th of July.
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Well bro that sucks. I take things one day at a time. Got 4 kids that have ADHD. One has bipolar to go with it. My youngest has a double whammy. ADHD from mom and aspergers from yours truly. So between all that crazy **** driving my wife and i nuts, everybody heres ready for the looney bin. Oldest is flying the coop. Then i can seperate the middle 2 who share a room and fight like cats n dogs. I call em Felix and Oscar from the odd couple. Point is we all have our burdens in life to carry. You make the best of what you have, and live knowing people around you may have it much worse, and you would never know it.

I thank my Lord Jesus Christ every day for the talents he has given me to make a living for my family and myself. The talents i have for being able to fix my own cars. And for the people with whom i have been fortunate to have in my life. I want to get my cuda done so bad. I can see and feel it, but in the end its the people who enrich our lives thats much more important.

Saving and collecting the parts to do my sons cuda with him when he is older is because i remember helping my dad restore a 79 little red back in 2001-2003. It was the best of times with my pop. Building the truck was fun too, but it was more about the connection to my dad. Some folks never get that. I work a lot, but try to spent time with the kids. Its very hard with the problems they have.
 
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I didn't get married until I was 51, which was 34 years after I got my first hot rod, a '66 Valiant with a 340 and 4-speed, and about 30 years after that 340 was transplanted into my '65 Barracuda. During planning for our wedding, it was actually my wife's suggestion that we depart the reception in the Barracuda--with open headers. She always enjoyed riding in it, and seemed to at least have a mild interest in cars. We are approaching our 11-year anniversary, and although she has no objection to my obsession, she has made it obvious that she doesn't share my passion for it. She retreats upstairs after supper every night to watch whatever mindless series or entertainment program she wants to, and no longer has any desire to attend any automotive-related event. She did treat me to a birthday weekend a few years ago at the drag strip in Memphis (including a dinner at a Brazilian steak house), but I don't think she had quite anticipated the decibel level of the Top Fuelers and Funny Cars!

We go to Destin every September for our anniversary trip, and since that week always coincides with Cruisin' the Coast, we had discussed several times that it would be fun to stop for that event on the way back. However, few years ago when I suggested stopping there for a couple of days on the way back, she told me that she didn't know I wanted to stay that long--she was thinking more like a couple of hours! She finally agreed to 4 days/3 nights, but it was readily apparent that the whole thing was pretty boring to her. I think her assessment was something like "Okay, there's a red car, and there's a blue car; can we go now?" She hung in there with me, but we agreed that we would both enjoy it more if I went back to my previous plan of going by myself.

The Barracuda is now undergoing a radical transformation including a full frame and cage, IRS, and aluminum 3rd gen hemi, and she was instrumental in persuading me to pay someone else to do that (so that it will be finished before I am too old to drive it). She doesn't know how much it will cost, so if anyone talks to her about it, let's just tell her it costs about as much as a new car--we just don't have to specify which car!

I guess I should consider myself lucky considering how many people I know who have sold their "toys" to avoid marital strife. At least she still shares my interest in water skiing (although she has not been to a tournament with me in years), and she reminds me that if not for menopause and the associated hot flashes, she wouldn't be skiing with me in December. She tells everyone that the only reason I married her is because she can drive a boat and back a trailer--but it's really her cooking.
 
My Wife is great. When we retired, we moved into a house where the basement opens up with two garage doors and it's all mine. The important thing to remember is that you are partners. Hopefully you complement and compliment each other. She asked if we should get more storage space and I said if it does not fit it will be sold. She appreciates that none of our cars go out for service. And I make sure we do things she wants to do. Including hunting pheasants in South Dakota every fall, High School basketball games, Handels Messiah at Christmas, and visiting family. I am the luckiest man alive.
 
look guys
count your blessings
you ready?
my gf drives a classic porsche 912
yes, 912
i have to work on it :(
i'd gladly have your problems :(
 
kiss said:
look guys
count your blessings
you ready?
my gf drives a classic porsche 912
yes, 912
i have to work on it :(
i'd gladly have your problems :(
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She would damn sure have to be worth it! I think once I found out what she drove there wouldn't be a second date!
 
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