Fishbusters
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- Apr 20, 2002
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I am sure all married men on this forum can agree with me that we all have developed a KEEP MOUTH SHUT device. If we did not have it when we got married it came to us in short order after the first few "Honey I can..." or "Honey if I do it...". Well can anyone tell me how to keep the dadgum thing from overloading??? My wife and I are planning our yearly camping trip and I am tired of sleeping on the ground (airmatress but still ground) but we have to wait about 2 years or a little more before something gets paid off and then we can afford a camper. In comes the start of the problem she knows we have a fold away bed in the shed and wanted to dig it out and get it ready for putting in the tent for me to sleep on. I think it will mess up the tent and say not a good idea. My wife being who she is (a woman like most wives) is bound and determined to get it out and use it. In order to head her off and introduce my plan (not completed yet and definitely not ready for her) I state why don't we take the old (2 bed) slide in camper for the ranger and mount it on a trailer (which I have) and then re do the inside to make the lower bed bigger and then the kids get the upper bunk and we get the lower one which makes room for everyone. She sees a flaw or two which I had already worked out and once I solve it she goes nuts over the idea. At this point I am smug and confident that it will not take long and be done over the next couple of weekends if not the first week I am out. Then the creative side of her takes hold. (insert dramatic music) I now not only have to mount and redo the interior of the camper but now I have to make a lot of extra storage, make an outside fold out cook area and sink and several other nifty nice to have modifications she has come up with. My original dream idea was to have what amounted to a tent on wheels with a raised bed and perhaps a storage box now it is a total nightmare. What I should have done was not tell her a thing and just do it but in order to avoid extra work I let my device overload and now have 10 times or more as much work. Somedays a man can't win. <br />BTW with all the modifications and such she came up with so quick you might think she already thought of the same idea and maybe was trying to get me to come up with it. Also she named the project so it really looks suspicious.
