For me or for him?

[3113]

Okay. Settle an argument here....I just bought this for my husband:

http://www.bathandbodyworks.com/graphics/product_images/pBBW1-3137669dt.jpg

Yes, that's right. I bought him some hot-chocolate body lotion. His skin gets so dry. And there I was shopping and I saw this, and I thought it would really help. See? I thought only of him. He, however, insists that I bought it for myself...he seems to think that all I want is for him to smell of chocolate.

I don't know where he got this idea.

Now, I ask you...when a loving wife buys her husband hot chocolate lotion, and offers to slowly rub it allllll over his body, to give him a nice, long massage with it...isn't she doing that for him?

 

[rgraham666]

Uhm. Why is he complaining?

I'd cheerfully put up with smelling like chocolate if some woman offered to do what you just described to me.

On the other hand, when he buys a power saw for you I'm not sure you'll be able to call him on it.

 

[3113]

On the other hand, when he buys a power saw for you I'm not sure you'll be able to call him on it.

I don't think my husband would be so foolish as to do that. Not that I'd give him any grief about buying me a power saw...he'd just be too afraid that I'd gleefully try it out on the neighbors.....

 

[rgraham666]

I don't think my husband would be so foolish as to do that. Not that I'd give him any grief about buying me a power saw...he'd just be too afraid that I'd gleefully try it out on the neighbors.....

(Quietly moves from Neptune to Mercury)

I'm glad you warned me.

 

[cloudy]

I don't think my husband would be so foolish as to do that. Not that I'd give him any grief about buying me a power saw...he'd just be too afraid that I'd gleefully try it out on the neighbors.....

...or be like me if I was given one, and yell "mine!" anytime he tried to use it.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Mmmmm, chocolate men. *drooling*

 

[Just-Legal]

Don't know if I've mentioned this before but the fiance has a rather nasty condition which basically leaves him in a lot of pain, especially his back. I bought him a massage bar and some scented oils and took a few massage lessons, and trust me, he hasn't complained that it was a selfish present *once*.

We do have to remember to change the sheets in the morning though, the oil gets *everywhere*

 

[Stella_Omega]

Uhm. Why is he complaining?

I'd cheerfully put up with smelling like chocolate if some woman offered to do what you just described to me.

On the other hand, when he buys a power saw for you I'm not sure you'll be able to call him on it.

I wish mine would!

I'm positive I've told the story of how, one year, I asked Santa for a table saw.
Xmas morning, everyone is opening pressies... At that end of the session, there was still one, long skinny package behind the tree- To Stella from Santa...

A Winchester Rifle. To be exact, it's a 1894 repeater, like Annie Oakley's I am very proud to have it- but, as I told my husband- I can't saw wood with it!

I told my son- around ten years old at the time- "If your girlfriend asks you for a tablesaw for Christmas- DON'T buy her a rifle instead!"

 

[3113]

A Winchester Rifle. To be exact, it's a 1894 repeater, like Annie Oakley's I am very proud to have it- but, as I told my husband- I can't saw wood with it!

But this is very forward thinking of your husband! I mean, when some punk you disapprove of comes striding up to your front door, aiming to take your daughter out on a date, you can lean out the window, aim the gun and say, "Keep walkin' punk! She ain't going out with the likes of you!"

Or, in the unlikely even that your daughter should, ah-hem, get in the family way by some other boy, you can have your gun up against his head as they stand before the preacher.

AND if you should ever need to defend your homestead from invading Soviets, Redcoats, aliens or the McCoys, well, there you are. Your children can be at your side, helping you to reload. A real bonding experience.

This was certainly the kind of gift that can keep on giving