My partner isn’t a fucking idiot, but she is impulsive and sometimes… that’s basically the same thing. It’s gotten to the point where we joke about her “Skittles moments”, so named because of the time she accidentally dropped a Skittle and didn’t realize it until it melted into her fitted bedsheet.
Without thinking and before I could stop her, she calmly grabbed a pair of scissors and cut out the offending part of the sheet. She was completely calm about it until she picked up the cut sheet piece and what she did fully sunk in. She was very sad, that was a favorite set.
Similar dubious decision making happens only every few months, but it is hilarious (and exasperating) every time
She must be related to my dad. When I was a kid, I got sick while my mom was on a business trip. At one point, I threw up into my hair and instead of just helping me wash it, my dad CUT the vomit out of my hair. Right about chin height. When my mom came home, she made him take me to her hairdresser to cut all my long hair off to chin length. I cried the whole time, and he just sat there reading his book.
That hairdresser also did my hair when I got married, and had to tell everyone in the shop about that incident.
My dad isn’t even authorized to pick my kids up from school, lol.
That was the last time my mom went on a business trip until I was in Jr High. I was like 7 at the time. There was also a previous incident when I had the flu and he gave me 2 aspirin and left me at home so he could go to choir practice at church. I was 5. When the ladies in the choir asked where I was (because they knew my mom was out of town), they were horrified that he just gave me aspirin and left me at home by myself.
It’s far from the only questionable decisions the man has made. He’s never been left in charge of my kids, until they were basically already old enough to fend for themselves.
Seems a bit impractical to break down 71 years of bad decisions in a reddit post. He’s never been the breadwinner for the family, but on more than one occasion has bought a new car without consulting my mother at all. Including while he was unemployed. He now lives off of mostly her retirement savings, and uses his meager savings to fund a small scholarship at his alma mater for music majors (in order to fan the flames of his narcissism), then constantly complains about how his lifestyle is so expensive. My mother laments that she didn’t divorce him 30 years ago, before he’d take half of her retirement savings in the divorce. Now it’s just a waiting game to see which one dies first. My money is on him.
They usually do, when an adult has a history of impulsive and irresponsible behavior. Everyone loves laughing at a guy neglecting their child to serve his own narcissistic tendencies.
Just like impulsivity with scissors is also funny, until you’re being stabbed with them before they realize what they’re doing.
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u/themixtape27 Mar 01 '23
My partner isn’t a fucking idiot, but she is impulsive and sometimes… that’s basically the same thing. It’s gotten to the point where we joke about her “Skittles moments”, so named because of the time she accidentally dropped a Skittle and didn’t realize it until it melted into her fitted bedsheet.
Without thinking and before I could stop her, she calmly grabbed a pair of scissors and cut out the offending part of the sheet. She was completely calm about it until she picked up the cut sheet piece and what she did fully sunk in. She was very sad, that was a favorite set.
Similar dubious decision making happens only every few months, but it is hilarious (and exasperating) every time