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B2FiNiTY said:My father in law stashed away a few thousand dollars and nobody knew about it until I accidentally digged it up.
Good detective work, B2Finity!

B2FiNiTY said:My father in law stashed away a few thousand dollars and nobody knew about it until I accidentally digged it up.
SoCal said:B2FiNiTY said:My father in law stashed away a few thousand dollars and nobody knew about it until I accidentally digged it up.
Good detective work, B2Finity!![]()
SoCal said:Question: How much do you guys trust your spouse?
I was thinking about this thread in the last few days. I've come to realize that although I'm a skeptical person by nature, I trust almost everything Mr. SoCal tells me. It's like there's no in-between. A jaded doubter when it comes to everyone else. Completely gullible when it comes to him. Don't get me wrong -- I can easily tell when he's lying. I always pick up on the slightest of facial expressions or inflections in his voice. He's often shocked when I can pick up on the tiniest clues he's lying. But, that's not often. He is the person I trust the most in this world. I think of him as being a genius and definitely smarter than me. Plus, he has earned my trust over many years. I do realize we should only put 100% of our faith in the Lord, not man. As humans, we are fallible. But if I sense he genuinely believes what he's saying, then I have little reason not to go with it.
Two examples:
1) Yesterday, I saw this picture on the internet -
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I showed him. I said, "I didn't know starfish can walk like this!" He said, "Yep. They sure do. They will also crawl up your leg and hump it like a dog." I swore, "I am never going to the beach again!!!!" He burst out laughing and confessed it wasn't true. Got me.
2) The last time he got a new car, I asked him what the body molding is for. He told me it keeps things from denting your car. I asked what he meant. He gave an example. He said if a shopping cart were to hit the side of your car, it would hit the trim and the trim would repel it or something similar not in those exact words. The trim would keep it from hitting the door instead. I thought it was unbelievable and impossible that a shopping cart would just bounce off of a car door but since he said it, and I knew he knows his stuff, I figured it must be true. Well, the next time I went grocery shopping, I took his car. Can you see where this is headed? Good. Because I couldn't. As I was leaving the store with a cart full of groceries, I decided that I didn't need to be careful with the cart. I let it go and gave it a little push towards his car. I knew it might hit the side of the car but that it was okay because it would just bounce off. A woman was watching this happen and basically had her jaw on the floor. I just gave her a little smile and a "hello" and kept going. She was in total disbelief, wondering if I lost my mind. The cart sped up faster and faster and slammed hard into the side of Mr. SoCal's new vehicle. It tipped up and dented the door before coming to a halt. I drove home and immediately told him what happened. I told him he was wrong. He said that is NOT what he meant, NOT AT ALL. Well, sometimes that's what happens when you trust to a fault.
I started to wonder about this thread and if there are others like that who believe what their spouse tells them no matter what.Or are you skeptical.
SoCal said:2) The last time he got a new car, I asked him what the body molding is for. He told me it keeps things from denting your car. I asked what he meant. He gave an example. He said if a shopping cart were to hit the side of your car, it would hit the trim and the trim would repel it or something similar not in those exact words. The trim would keep it from hitting the door instead. I thought it was unbelievable and impossible that a shopping cart would just bounce off of a car door but since he said it, and I knew he knows his stuff, I figured it must be true. Well, the next time I went grocery shopping, I took his car. Can you see where this is headed? Good. Because I couldn't. As I was leaving the store with a cart full of groceries, I decided that I didn't need to be careful with the cart. I let it go and gave it a little push towards his car. I knew it might hit the side of the car but that it was okay because it would just bounce off. A woman was watching this happen and basically had her jaw on the floor. I just gave her a little smile and a "hello" and kept going. She was in total disbelief, wondering if I lost my mind. The cart sped up faster and faster and slammed hard into the side of Mr. SoCal's new vehicle. It tipped up and dented the door before coming to a halt. I drove home and immediately told him what happened. I told him he was wrong. He said that is NOT what he meant, NOT AT ALL. Well, sometimes that's what happens when you trust to a fault.
Happiness said:I think neither example is a test of your trust. Example 1 is a joke, if it was testing anything, it was a test of your sense of humor.
irvinehomeowner said:I'm shaking my head at the shopping cart story... c'mon... you can at least see if where the cart will make contact aligns with the molding.
#logic
SoCal said:irvinehomeowner said:I'm shaking my head at the shopping cart story... c'mon... you can at least see if where the cart will make contact aligns with the molding.
#logic
The cart was at the proper height for the molding. If it hadn't tipped, it would've been fine.
I think Mr. needs to be reacquainted with the Aesop fable: the next time he cries wolf, the villagers might not come.SoCal said:Happiness said:I think neither example is a test of your trust. Example 1 is a joke, if it was testing anything, it was a test of your sense of humor.
One time, he was doing some electrical work on the house. I asked him to be careful so he wouldn't get hurt. He reminded me that he knows exactly what he's doing. (One of his degrees is in electrical engineering.) I left the room. I did some other things. Time passed. I went back into the room. He was busy working. He had wires out. He connected two of them. Suddenly, he began convulsing and making scary noises. I thought it must be a joke so I was like - yeah, right. He fell over. It kept going. I thought he was being electrocuted. I screamed his name. I had a lump in my throat and my heart was racing. Then he started laughing. It was a joke. His ideas of joking around are a little different than mine.
Another time, I was making dinner when I had to quickly go do something else. I was chopping fingerling potatoes. I asked him if he could keep chopping until I got back. I kind of doubted if he knew what to do since he never cooks. I keep my knives sharp, by the way. He assured me that he's got it covered. I left the room. Forgot about our conversation. I came back and heard a loud "whack". I turned around just in time to see a finger fly off the cutting board, hit the ground, and roll under the oven. He screamed, grabbed his hand, and dropped the knife. He was grimacing in pain. I screamed, too, and began searching for his severed finger. When I found it on the floor, I realized it was a finger...ling potato! He was laughing and happily kept chopping.
Maybe I don't have the same sense of humor other people do because these things do get my adrenaline going. For some reason, he seems to prefer pranks where the theme is him getting hurt. These are just a couple of them. I never get used to them.
SoCal said:One time, he was doing some electrical work on the house. I asked him to be careful so he wouldn't get hurt. He reminded me that he knows exactly what he's doing. (One of his degrees is in electrical engineering.)
B2FiNiTY said:@happiness I think your husband and I would get along great.
B2FiNiTY said:@happiness I think your husband and I would get along great. I do the same thing to my wife all the time and it never gets old. At least for me hahah. She says the same thing, one day you will cry wolf and you will regret it. But until that day, I will continue laughing all the way.
eyephone said:SoCal said:B2FiNiTY said:My father in law stashed away a few thousand dollars and nobody knew about it until I accidentally digged it up.
Good detective work, B2Finity!![]()
He gets an A grade for snooping around?
B2FiNiTY said:I guess you can say I'm just a curious cat. I tend to notice things in the backgrounds of movies, flaws in the paint of a car, unaligned edges in furniture, etc etc. This leads to me looking around, organizing, and cleaning when I have nothing else to do.
So to update, it turns out my mother in law did not make a big deal out of it, they only had a cold war for a day and a half until my father in law broke the news. My mother in law just made a joke out of it and we all laughed it off. All is forgotten. Hopefully.....
I just now hope my father in law doesn't have a secret grudge against me because of this. Our back up plans was so secretly supply him with cash if he needed to give some to his family. But that obviously is just a bandaid solution and trust issues will still linger in the long term.