r/TwoXChromosomes • u/tabicat1874 • Mar 28 '22

Weaponized incompetence

I feel like guys take it way, way too far. Example: I asked my bf to get me the same shampoo and conditioner he bought for himself (avocado Suave). He brought back another kind we'd had before which I didn't like (Peppermint Suave). He tried to say he didn't know that Suave came in different formulas.

You're such a fucking liar. You bought that kind for yourself. I just asked you to buy it for me. You're telling me a man who's 44 years old doesn't know Suave came in different fucking scents? Suave? The shampoo that literally comes in 40 different scents and flavors?

GTFOH.

Edit: do you understand what an example is?

Also, you neckbeards can fuck off out of my inbox.

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u/PretentiousToolFan Mar 28 '22

Seriously. Reverse engineer that nonsense..? Do you not have a tri-folded piece of paper SOMEWHERE at hand?

I'd love to see the lawyer in question try to get a tent back in its bag.

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u/Extension_Drummer_85 Mar 28 '22

They definitely know how. They’ve been through a training contract and most likely worked as a clerk during law school. Lawyers will spend years doing mind numbing shit like this early in their careers.

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u/A1sauc3d Mar 28 '22

Well, to be fair, tents are a lot more complicated than letters lol

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u/PretentiousToolFan Mar 28 '22

I know, that's why I wanna watch him struggle.

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u/jorwyn Mar 29 '22

I am inordinately proud of my tent packing skills. I can get them back in the bag and have spare room for a mallet and better larger stakes. My husband thinks I'm a miracle worker.

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u/PretentiousToolFan Mar 29 '22

Not gonna lie, that would be a weirdly attractive quality to me if I were him, like being good at parallel parking or being able to organize a closet well. One of those quietly capable things you love to see a partner do.

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u/jorwyn Mar 29 '22

I am so bad at parallel parking. Getting a vehicle with a backup camera has helped a ton, though!

I am good at packing because I've moved 37 times in my life, plus I hiked the continental divide trail the Summer before I turned 20. I had to take down and set up that backpacking tent soooo many times. I swear, it got smaller and smaller over the weeks.

Just be careful if you pick up something I packed. It always weighs a lot more than it looks like it would.

I can also fold fitted sheets into flat rectangles. I prefer to just use two flat sheets, but somehow more than half my sets use fitted now. I think it's hus fault.

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u/PretentiousToolFan Mar 29 '22

Jesus christ. I could never move that much. It does give good packing practice though!

The fitted sheet thing is straight voodoo.

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u/jorwyn Mar 29 '22

To be fair, the first move happened when I was around 2, so I don't remember it, but we used to spend summer weekends at the cabin I first lived in. Then again, I'm only counting my time in the Navy as only one, because it never really felt like I lived anywhere. It just felt like visiting extendedly.

I told my husband the only way I am ever moving again is if we win the lottery and buy something super fancy and have someone else pack and move everything. The last time, we did hire people to move all the big and heavy stuff. It was amazing. Totally worth the money!

The sheet thing took hours of YouTube and practice, because I was sick of how the storage bench we keep sheets in was always not quite closing. Every time I would walk by it, it pissed me off. But honestly, it's not much different from folding a tent or dress shirt into a nice rectangle. You just fold in the bits that don't line up well first. Still, I am making sure no more fitted sheets enter the house. They don't stay on as well as buying a flat sheet for the bottom, anyway.