Thread: Wives and travel

Just have your video camera running in the allocated danger periods and pull the stills from that.


Mick

Originally Posted by shayne

Family vacation and I love doing things with the boys but the wife has two hobbies shopping and being noisy , sorry three I forgot her penchant for sleep . So next time you see a guy looking harried and a bit on edge give him a nod and a understanding smile cause it might just be me !

You must fall in the same category than me, eh you don't like shopping but your wife unfortunately does. I give you the best advice i can tell: never take her to Arab Emirates. Might be ok and nice place and all, but specially it is a heaven for those who like shopping. And nothing more than shopping. Hundreds of shopping malls. Some are several km's long and more floor that wanted to count. Premium and luxury products, genuine, no fakes, dead cheap.
Although my wife and daughter had no problems spending hours and hours at these malls, my son and i must have thought about Dante's Inferno. And what's worst: you could get beer & alcohol from hotels and single Hard Rock Cafe only (actually you could get it elsewhere too but you need a little knowhow).

What!!! Wasn't there a decent Razor or Tobacco/Pipe shop to be found for Mr Sailor and Son???


Mick

Originally Posted by BobH

I have sympathy for your situation but honestly I cannot say I have that problem. For that I am eternally grateful to wife #2.

Bob

I think the solution to his problem is in this statement somewhere.

Originally Posted by Sailor

You must fall in the same category than me, eh you don't like shopping but your wife unfortunately does. I give you the best advice i can tell: never take her to Arab Emirates. Might be ok and nice place and all, but specially it is a heaven for those who like shopping. And nothing more than shopping. Hundreds of shopping malls. Some are several km's long and more floor that wanted to count. Premium and luxury products, genuine, no fakes, dead cheap.
Although my wife and daughter had no problems spending hours and hours at these malls, my son and i must have thought about Dante's Inferno. And what's worst: you could get beer & alcohol from hotels and single Hard Rock Cafe only (actually you could get it elsewhere too but you need a little knowhow).

First time in UAE it was ramadan and I was wreaked every day on the golf course and the nightly shisha joint.

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

I think the solution to his problem is in this statement somewhere.

Uh, this is wife no 3 and she is no lemon, though she does have a few short points don't we all ? her greatest point is she puts up with my silly ol ass.

Originally Posted by BobH

I have sympathy for your situation but honestly I cannot say I have that problem. For that I am eternally grateful to wife #2.

Bob

Same here, although in my case it is wife #1.

Originally Posted by shayne

So since there is an unspoken rule against slagging off the Missus and since men have voluntarily placed women in rarified air, I cannot vent to full desire . But why is it when you travel all the extraneous brick a brack she feels compelled to pack is ok and off limits to revision yet what you packed and I might add packed long before her last minute actions commenced is open to loud criticism and ridicule ?

Because.


Now quit whining. That's just the way of the world

Originally Posted by Smoothy

Same here, although in my case it is wife #1.

Ah, went the cheap route them.

Bob

Last time I went on holidays with my girlfriend, I let her pack our suitcase. I just told her howmany jeans and shirts I wanted and that was all (except I packed my shaving gear myself)! Meanwhile, I did something useful, but I don't remember what.

Uhm, does that change when girlfriend->wife?