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bf's intelligence makes me laugh...sometimes

smurfy1smile's picture

Here are some of the "dumb" things BF has done when I ask him to do something for baby or for himself. Keep in mind he has never dealt with a small child and his ex never cooked.

When baby was getting ready to throw up last night, I asked BF to get me a bucket. He glances around the living room and just sits there. I again ask for a bucket or a bowl. He asks - Where are they? DUH in the cupboard where I keep the bowls. You know the bowls your eat popcorn out of.

Baby is throwing up and I need another hand or two so I call out for BF. He is in the garage smoking about 20 feet away and you can hear yelling in the garage. I have to yell 3 times before he comes to see what I need. Then he complains that he only got to have half of a cigarette. WAAAAA, I have to pee but I have to wait.

Baby's first Christmas - he is a month old - I ask BF to warm up a bottle for me. I remind him to take the nipple off the bottle. He brings me the bottle and the milk is cold. I ask him why the milk is cold and he says he nuked the nipple. When I asked him why he did that he said he thought it was to sterlize it. I asked him why he thought that is what I wanted and he did not have an answer.

Two nights ago I made a big supper, mashed potatoes with gravy, turkey breast in the crock pot, rolls, corn, etc. I had also cooked up some hamburger with onions to make lasagna later. I left it on the stove to cool. I serve the kids and myself dinner. BF usually does not eat with us so I did not say anything to him. So BF serves himself dinner and instead of having the turkey, BF eats some of the hamburger. Keep in mind the whole house smells like turkey. I ask him why he is eating the burger and he says cause its on the stove. Why aren't you eating the turkey? I don't know he says. For once, he realizes he should have asked and he knows this is an argument he cannot win.

I made the kids raman noodles one night as part of their dinner. I made BF and I something else. BF dishes up his food and also has some of the now very cold raman noodles. Why are you eating that? I ask him. It was on the stove is his response.

I asked BF to get me some diapers to keep in the living room from the baby's closet - the same place we have always kept his stuff - but I know BF so I say on the right hand side in the bin. I just redid this closet the prior weekend and after I was done I told BF to go look and see where everything is but I know he just glanced and was done. Anyhoo, I am still waiting for a diaper like 3 minutes later - the room is right off the living room so its like 10 steps to get there and back to it should not take that long. I go to search for BF and I find him on the floor in our room looking in our closet - there are no bins in there and we have never kept the baby stuff in there. I ask him what he is doing and he says looking for the diapers. I ask him why he is looking in our closet to which he replies cause that's where you said they were. So I ask, since when do we keep baby's stuff in here and he says I don't know. Thank goodness it was not a diaper emergency!

Anyone else question the brains of the one we love? He is super cute but common sense eludes him.

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spitfire's picture

ALL THE TIME!!! I love my husband soo much but the man as no common sense sometimes. He is very smart and can fix anything but some of the simpliest things will really makes me wonder and his son is the same way. Oh and forget doing more that one thing at a time like us women can. they can not double task. I feel for ya

FallingfromGrace's picture

When I had my son my now-ex were very young. I was determined to follow all of the reccomendation from the numerous baby books and research I had read. We were having some sleeping issues with our baby - and ofcourse my mother-in-law told me to "put a teaspoon of rice in his bottle". Well I was NOT going to give MY child cereal before the recommended age. Unbeknownst to me, my husband "secretly" but a teaspoon of MINUTE RICE in the babies bottle. In the morning, he asked excitedly if our son had slept well. He had slept very well that night and when I told my H he said "that is because I put rice in his bottle" ***insert shit eating grin here***
Puzzled, I asked how he did that since we did not have any cereal - then he said "no, my Mom said to put rice in his bottle..." LOL!!! Dork!

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