One day I glued a bunch of nuts, bolts and screws to gether. When my wife asked me if I had seen that doohinckey for the thinga-ma-bob, I go get it from my work shop and ask if this it. We both have a good laugh. then she can tell me exactly what she’s looking for.
Not always. I’ve found that more often than not I get the wrong “thing”. “Weren’t you listening? I mean the other thing!” It’s always safer but not necessarily more informative to ask, “which thing is that?” When both hearing and pronunciation abilities are limited on both sides of the conversation, meaning isn’t always conveyed,
My girlfriend and I were cooking, her daughter was in the kitchen. GF asked me for the “cachunkachunk” and I handed it to her without hesitation. “Okay, you two make me sick” . BTW, that tool is the big, half moon shaped pizza cutter, but we weren’t making pizza.
a sage about 10 hours ago
Are you sure it isn’t the thingamajig?
juicebruce about 7 hours ago
You put it over there … By the Muffler Bearings ;-)
Pluggergirl about 6 hours ago
As do Surgeons & certain excellent scrub techs
chris_o42 about 6 hours ago
Wait till you lose the whoziewhatsis—then you got trouble!
'IndyMan' about 5 hours ago
Reminds of the some conversations my wife and I had—-‘back in the day’ ! ! !
david_42 about 5 hours ago
My wife has this magical way of finding things: she tells me what she is looking for and POOF! it appears. Doesn’t work the other way around.
Dani Rice about 5 hours ago
I love this!
Doug K about 4 hours ago
well … sometimes he does have to say something like, “The other thing with the thingy on it that does that thing.”
Teto85 Premium Member about 4 hours ago
Read today’s One and Done.
exness Premium Member about 4 hours ago
Husband can ask where something is and I say right in front of you and he still can’t see it.
Zen-of-Zinfandel about 4 hours ago
Thingamabobs and doodads.
ctolson about 4 hours ago
One day I glued a bunch of nuts, bolts and screws to gether. When my wife asked me if I had seen that doohinckey for the thinga-ma-bob, I go get it from my work shop and ask if this it. We both have a good laugh. then she can tell me exactly what she’s looking for.
leo.eugene about 3 hours ago
This sounds exactly like a conversation my wife and I would have but this plugger doesn’t know what she means most of the time.
FassEddie about 2 hours ago
No we don’t! Not always! She could mean anything and the context is often lost to other noises.
whelan_jj about 2 hours ago
Not always. I’ve found that more often than not I get the wrong “thing”. “Weren’t you listening? I mean the other thing!” It’s always safer but not necessarily more informative to ask, “which thing is that?” When both hearing and pronunciation abilities are limited on both sides of the conversation, meaning isn’t always conveyed,
SofaKing Premium Member about 2 hours ago
My girlfriend and I were cooking, her daughter was in the kitchen. GF asked me for the “cachunkachunk” and I handed it to her without hesitation. “Okay, you two make me sick” . BTW, that tool is the big, half moon shaped pizza cutter, but we weren’t making pizza.
mistercatworks about 1 hour ago
The deterioration of vocabulary is one of those, you know, thingies.