Rant about men

Hunniebun

Hunniebun

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I need to rant for a minute here. I love my boyfriend, been with him about 2 years now and he's great. Now lets re-wind a bit to bring about the point of my rant. A couple months ago my cars locks fell out of their slots on both the drivers and passenger side doors. I was going to take it in to get it professionally repaired by my boyfriends like "oh no don't pay for that, let me fix it". So I did, he took the door panel off, put the locks back on place, but BROKE other parts as he was doing this. So upside, I could get back into my car again without having to crawl through the trunk, downside...There's broken parts rattling like mad inside the door which drives me insane when I'm driving my car, and the panel doesn't stay on correctly. He bugged me for weeks to let him fix what he had broken so I let him do it today, but I specifically stated...That he please do it carefully and that he does NOT break any new parts.

Well guess what...He broke more parts, and lost more too, so now I can't even roll my **** windows down! He wants to help me and he told me I was taking a shot at his ego for not originally wanting to let him fix his mistake, well this is WHY!
Now I have his truck and I am pretty annoyed at him for making the problem even worse and not just letting someone else who knows what they are doing do it. Is this a man thing or just a my man thing..grrrrr.
 
It's a man thing. well, some men at least. My husband Steve was incredibly handy at many things, but there were things I could do better. But Steve, ah Steve. Bless him, he just sincerely believed he could do it all. Mucked up more than one project I had going in his attempts to 'help' me or 'improve' on what I was doing.

Worst thing he ever did to me... I had a very important art deadline. I had pages to ink before I could mail my packet to the publisher for the editor to approve. I decided I needed a nap before I could continue. When I wake up Steve proudly shows me he 'helped' me by inking a page of my pencils. Mind you, this man could not draw a stick figure. I sat and stared at what he'd done and began to openly weep. I had to redraw the whole page and it set me back hours. I finished the project, but I swear I couldn't look at him without wanting to choke him for a week.
 
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Man thing. My brother can mess up stuff, like that other time when I was small, I made this HUGE watercolor project that took me WEEKS!

I didnt finished it and went to eat, then took a break by watching TV. You know what happened. He decided to help and drew a PUPPY and a SOCCER BALL. My project was about SCIENCE! And VOLCANOES!

Well, at least I got a C. Even when VOLCANOES dont SPLASH PINK PUNCH!
 
My mom seems to be surrounded by men who are like this, one being my brother~

and brother claimed our stepdad messed a bunch of things up x___x he may or may not have, but brother definitely hasn't made them any better. <___<
 
There is a shop going down the interstate toward Birmingham Alabama that says "We fix what your husband tried too" I think sometimes its right and sometimes it wrong. My poor dad can fix a lot of stuff but the stuff he cant he will spend hours or days reading oh how to do it then finally realizing its kinda needs to have someone else who knows about these thing fix it. The lawn mower and the weed whacker have suffered enough dad.
 
I guess I'll have to get used to this or put my foot down more often without feeling bad. I was so mad at him yesterday, he took my car to a dealership and fixed what he did so now its ok but the rule is he is not going to work on my car again UNLESS its something really simple like changing the battery or the oil lol. UGH, I've never been that annoyed at him before.
 
Hunniebun said:
I hope he doesn't get into something like that, he gets so frustrated and that's how he ends up breaking things, by not thinking lol. He can break his own stuff but NOT mine.
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Supreme wisdom.
 
Oh men.. they just need to be "the prince" and help "the princess" even though they can't....
Fortunately my boyfriend haven't break any of my stuff yet and he is pretty handy in fixing cars, house etc. BUT whats bothering me is that when he starts something he will usually leave it unfinished -.- and when I ask about it, he gets either mad or just says tomorrow, later etc. and never really does it (Untill I kick him in the a*s ;)).
 
There's all these inside jokes about the men in my husband's family. It led me to create a support group on facebook for the spouses that have married into my husband's family and we lovingly joke about all the stupid things our spouses do. They all mean well, but dang can they get on our nerves!
 
evilbunnyfoofoo said:
It's a man thing. well, some men at least. My husband Steve was incredibly handy at many things, but there were things I could do better. But Steve, ah Steve. Bless him, he just sincerely believed he could do it all. Mucked up more than one project I had going in his attempts to 'help' me or 'improve' on what I was doing.

Worst thing he ever did to me... I had a very important art deadline. I had pages to ink before I could mail my packet to the publisher for the editor to approve. I decided I needed a nap before I could continue. When I wake up Steve proudly shows me he 'helped' me by inking a page of my pencils. Mind you, this man could not draw a stick figure. I sat and stared at what he'd done and began to openly weep. I had to redraw the whole page and it set me back hours. I finished the project, but I swear I couldn't look at him without wanting to choke him for a week.
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Ouch, I cringed when I read that!

By the way, are you a comic book artist or illustrator or something:)
 
Many moons ago I worked for Eagle Limited UK for 2000AD weekly comic. I really enjoyed the work. Now I paint for galleries or do magazine spot work and specialty commissions. Whatever pays the bills. I'm one of the starving artists that is fat. I'm a freak of nature. :rolleyes:
 
Cool! We have so many artists here it's awesome! And don't worry because I'm a freak of nature too. Or maybe a freak of modern lab experiments, I'm not sure...
 
Mine can fix anything, anything at all but can he put his clothes in the hamper? Nope. Pretty much anything to do with cleaning or picking up after himself can only be achieved by nagging. You'd think after 10+ yrs of living together he'd do it on his own but nope.
 
That drives me crazy too...Clothes on the floor, and leaving closet doors, cupboards and drawers open all the time! He never ever shuts his blinds either, he leaves all his apartment windows wide open to the world every night, you can easily see in and see everything he owns. We don't live together right now which I think is a good thing lol.
 
Lol that cracks me up I feel your pain. I'm scared that Bryon is going to break his computer one of these days. He has been known to slam his keyboard and slap the computer lol. And then I think of Eddie car from the list world "violence and technology...not good bed fellows. It'll work when you give it love..."
 
that sucks hunniebun, sorry to hear about your car. :s

and haha! we fix what your husband tried too. XD

as for is it a men thing? I think its more of a some people and their ego thing. :p my guy knows what he can fix and won't touch what he can't.

foofoo! oh no! I feel for you! all that work gone to waste. :(
 
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