Sometimes Wives Just Don't Understand

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So she didn't give me any grief over the last blade I bought (just kinda rolled her eyes). But today I was washing out a used baby food jar, dried it and walked outside to the dryer to stuff it full of lint to tuck it in my pack to go with my fire kit.

She asked what it was for and I told her, then she watched me put it in my pack and started laughing, when I asked her what was so funny, she said, "OH! you're really serious?!? I thought you were kidding. Is this for when society ends?"

Eh, just kinda rubbed me the wrong way, sometimes they just don't get it, but when it comes time for me to use my BOB or that fire kit she'll be happy I was prepared.

Rant over
 
Yeah, well, I don't understand why they need to have 200 pairs of shoes either. To each their own, I guess.
 
tell me about it. she freaked when i got my fn spr1 bolt gun. i am fixin to order a lwrci repr rifle. what do you think will happen? anybody have a spare bedroom i can borrow?
 
mikieg said:
tell me about it. she freaked when i got my fn spr1 bolt gun. i am fixin to order a lwrci repr rifle. what do you think will happen? anybody have a spare bedroom i can borrow?
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Yeah, I do. Send the guns, I'll store them in the spare bedroom for ya.

Moose
 
Sometimes that's just the way it is. My wife did a double take when I first took out some dryer lint for a fire. But as soon as she saw how well it worked in making a nice warm fire for the family she "got it". Now she makes it a point to save it for me. :D
 
My wife and I reached an understanding years ago. As long as the bills are paid, the IRA funded, and no home repairs are called for, how any disposable income she or I have is not questioned.
I don't look in her jewelry safe, she stays away from my guns, knives and bushcraft gear. :cool:
 
U really need lint to get a fire going with esee fire kit ,really? I got damp wood to go up ,did lose half a lung though.
 
I've noticed from the different responses in this and other threads, that it's a 'crap shoot' with regard to how women are going to react. Some guys get lucky, some don't!
 
Its always funny to them when there is nothing going wrong in the world, but at any hint of a problem , they turn to you because they know you are preparedness guy and expect you to have the answer.... funny no?
 
Hey - after getting halfway stranded on a slick road from nearly crashing yesterday when it snowed (for lack of enough salt or salt trucks around here, etc.), my girlfriend wants me to expand her car bug out bag and teach her more. :cool:

Btw, there was a redneck in another county draggin a boat without a trailer on an iced-over side road tonight for fun I hear...either their version of sledding or I guess they already attempted to break it through the ice to try what they thought was ice fishing?:rolleyes: Too much beer
 
Luckily, my lady just expects things like that from me. She used to be a bit more skeptical, but skills and tools have come to the rescue before, and she has learned to be a bit more open-minded and appreciative.

Yours will get it some day, or she won't. Either way, she won't be as warm as you will with that new and improved fire kit! :D

-Nadz
 
Turn to your wife and say you are carrying the fire.

"You have to carry the fire.
I don't know how to.
Yes you do.
Is it real? The fire?
Yes it is.
Where is it? I dont know where it is.
Yes you do. It's inside you. It was always there. I can see it."
-Cormac McCarthy


Most of my close friends get it. The girlfriend for some reason likes the fact I'm ready no matter what. She also likes my beard.... which is weird.
 
Man, nobody likes my beard. That doesn't stop me from having one anyway, though.:D
 
Guille said:
Its always funny to them when there is nothing going wrong in the world, but at any hint of a problem , they turn to you because they know you are preparedness guy and expect you to have the answer.... funny no?
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I know right!!! but ive slowly got my finance on board here lately... of course it could just be her way of pacifying me... either way im ok with it lol!
 
Yeah, once they see the stuff really works it can change em. My son. Got attacked by a neighbors dog 2 yrs ago. He is luckY to be alive over 15o stitches to his head. His ear was hanging by a piece of skin and he was bleeding like a stuck pig. My wife couldn't get his bleeding to stop. I pulled out my trauma kit which was with my work gear thankfully
At home. I got the bleeding stopped and his head all wrapped up. Paramedics showed up and saw what I did and were shocked after hearing bout my military background and current job they understood. Have to say those new military trauma bandages are truly
Amazing! I now have kits with clotting agents, the trama bandages, turnikits, etc for home, truck etc. She completely supports that stuff know. Also have a few buddies carrying em because of it.
 
Being single, thankfully I don't have to deal with that. But my family likes to think I'm over prepared for the end of the world or what ever they like to think. That was until the last pretty decent earthquake we had and they thought it might be a fore shock to a much larger one... Who's the first person that mom calls to see if they have everything in case the big one hits, me of course! And yes, I have everything, and I'm glad you haven't bought one single thing for yourself!
 
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