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OB Bus
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Joined: February 09, 2003
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Location: Ocean Beach in Beautiful BLUE California
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 Posted: Sat May 12, 2018 1:11 pm Post subject: Re: New Topic: "You married guys will understand this" |
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| HMVWNAB wrote: |
Show of hands, do you buy your wife a Mothers Day gift, since, I hope, she isn't your mother?  |
Yes I did and have done so for the past 31 years. Yes flowers - likely overpriced but who (other than TDCTDI) cares? Balloons. Some framed artwork. A couple of plants - with planting services included. Opal earrings. Lunch at a favorite seafood restaurant. Afternoon hike at the local flower fields.
She is the mother of our children and the rock of our family. Deserving of everything.
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HMVWNAB
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Joined: September 23, 2006
Posts: 1089
Location: Sunshine State
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2018 2:09 pm Post subject: Re: New Topic: "You married guys will understand this" |
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| TDCTDI wrote: |
| HMVWNAB wrote: |
| Show of hands, do you buy your wife a Mothers Day gift, since, I hope, she isn't your mother? |
The last few years I have gotten her a "bouquet" or a dozen long stem Starbucks gift cards. 12 $5 gift cards fitted into notched straws arranged in a Starbucks cup filled 3/4 up with coffee beans. She gets a kick out of it, & it lasts longer than a bunch of overpriced flowers. You can use the gift card of your (preferably her) choice. |
That's clever, permission to plagiarize idea. 
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TDCTDI
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Joined: August 31, 2013
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Location: North Carolina
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2018 2:49 pm Post subject: Re: New Topic: "You married guys will understand this" |
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| HMVWNAB wrote: |
| TDCTDI wrote: |
| HMVWNAB wrote: |
| Show of hands, do you buy your wife a Mothers Day gift, since, I hope, she isn't your mother? |
The last few years I have gotten her a "bouquet" or a dozen long stem Starbucks gift cards. 12 $5 gift cards fitted into notched straws arranged in a Starbucks cup filled 3/4 up with coffee beans. She gets a kick out of it, & it lasts longer than a bunch of overpriced flowers. You can use the gift card of your (preferably her) choice. |
That's clever, permission to plagiarize idea. |
Absolutely! I’m glad someone else likes the idea of an out of the ordinary & longer lasting gift.
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mark tucker
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Location: SHALIMAR ,FLORIDA
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2018 3:18 pm Post subject: Re: New Topic: "You married guys will understand this" |
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she is the mother of my kids.....so....Im taking her and my mom out for dinner,not fast food either....( maw is in love with mickey dees, funny thing is for the first 60 years of her life she wouldent step foot in there and chewed our ass if we did......must be a old thing.. shes 84...I think....she sure isant the same person that I grew up with   .) |
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Mark Evans 
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Joined: April 21, 2004
Posts: 1931
Location: Alsea,Oregon
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2018 5:57 am Post subject: Re: New Topic: "You married guys will understand this" |
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| TDCTDI wrote: |
| HMVWNAB wrote: |
| TDCTDI wrote: |
| HMVWNAB wrote: |
| Show of hands, do you buy your wife a Mothers Day gift, since, I hope, she isn't your mother? |
The last few years I have gotten her a "bouquet" or a dozen long stem Starbucks gift cards. 12 $5 gift cards fitted into notched straws arranged in a Starbucks cup filled 3/4 up with coffee beans. She gets a kick out of it, & it lasts longer than a bunch of overpriced flowers. You can use the gift card of your (preferably her) choice. |
That's clever, permission to plagiarize idea. |
Absolutely! I’m glad someone else likes the idea of an out of the ordinary & longer lasting gift. |
I have always disliked giving cut flowers. I give potted roses or other plants that just keep on giving, year after year.
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Cusser
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Joined: October 02, 2006
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Location: Hot Arizona
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2018 9:31 am Post subject: Re: New Topic: "You married guys will understand this" |
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| busdaddy wrote: |
Nothing says "I love you!" like lawn and garden equipment, every girls dream!  |
Well, she LOVED the hay/yard cart !!!! And the 1927 edition of "Heidi" !!!
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TDCTDI
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Joined: August 31, 2013
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Location: North Carolina
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2018 10:16 am Post subject: Re: New Topic: "You married guys will understand this" |
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This year I switched it up though, I took the daughter out this morning & visited the local strawberry patch & we picked 3 1/2 gallons of berries for $30, I them took two dozen of the nicest & turned them upside down & skewered each with a straw & made a “rosebud” arrangement out of those.
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GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
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OB Bus
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Joined: February 09, 2003
Posts: 2541
Location: Ocean Beach in Beautiful BLUE California
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2018 2:39 pm Post subject: Re: New Topic: "You married guys will understand this" |
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| TDCTDI wrote: |
This year I switched it up though, I took the daughter out this morning & visited the local strawberry patch & we picked 3 1/2 gallons of berries for $30, I them took two dozen of the nicest & turned them upside down & skewered each with a straw & made a “rosebud” arrangement out of those.
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Very clever idea! My wife would love to get berries for that price to make jam.
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nsracing
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2018 6:39 pm Post subject: Re: New Topic: "You married guys will understand this" |
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I only consider flowers for funerals.
Some men will screw their wives for mother's day and give flowers to their own mothers.
I take my wifey out to dinner. I take her to dinner every week anyway. |
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Cusser
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Location: Hot Arizona
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2018 9:07 pm Post subject: Re: New Topic: "You married guys will understand this" |
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| Cusser wrote: |
| busdaddy wrote: |
| Nothing says "I love you!" like lawn and garden equipment, every girls dream! |
Well, she LOVED the hay/yard cart !!!! And the 1927 edition of "Heidi" !!! |
And we went out to dinner, with youngest daughter, at restaurant with Mrs. Cusser's favorite live entertainer.
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79SuperVert
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Location: Elizabeth, NJ & La Isla Del Encanto
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 3:14 pm Post subject: Re: New Topic: "You married guys will understand this" |
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My wife would kill me if I paid Mother's Day prices for flowers. I've always bought her a card, though.
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KTPhil
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Location: Conejo Valley, CA
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 3:41 pm Post subject: Re: New Topic: "You married guys will understand this" |
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| And we went out to dinner, with youngest daughter, at restaurant with Mrs. Cusser's favorite live entertainer. |
Isn't that YOU? |
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Cusser
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Location: Hot Arizona
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 3:43 pm Post subject: Re: New Topic: "You married guys will understand this" |
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| Cusser wrote: |
| And we went out to dinner, with youngest daughter, at restaurant with Mrs. Cusser's favorite live entertainer. |
Isn't that YOU? |
Nah, he's a singer named Bud. She uses me for sexual gratification and my $$$$.
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slave1pilot
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 9:18 am Post subject: Re: New Topic: "You married guys will understand this" |
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| HMVWNAB wrote: |
| Show of hands, do you buy your wife a Mothers Day gift, since, I hope, she isn't your mother? |
Nope.
never have. Not once.
She's not my Mother.
My kids always do though.
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Zundfolge1432
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 9:34 am Post subject: Re: New Topic: "You married guys will understand this" |
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| Cusser wrote: |
| KTPhil wrote: |
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| And we went out to dinner, with youngest daughter, at restaurant with Mrs. Cusser's favorite live entertainer. |
Isn't that YOU? |
Nah, he's a singer named Bud. She uses me for sexual gratification and my $$$$. |
Kinda like the gimp from pulp fiction? |
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Bob Loblaw
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Location: Vancouver Island, Canada
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 10:19 am Post subject: Re: New Topic: "You married guys will understand this" |
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| Zundfolge1432 wrote: |
| Cusser wrote: |
| KTPhil wrote: |
| Cusser wrote: |
| And we went out to dinner, with youngest daughter, at restaurant with Mrs. Cusser's favorite live entertainer. |
Isn't that YOU? |
Nah, he's a singer named Bud. She uses me for sexual gratification and my $$$$. |
Kinda like the gimp from pulp fiction? |
Like the Gimp always says, "Hmmph hmmph hmmmmph hmph hmmmmph!"
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ach60
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 12:42 pm Post subject: Re: New Topic: "You married guys will understand this" |
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| HMVWNAB wrote: |
| Show of hands, do you buy your wife a Mothers Day gift, since, I hope, she isn't your mother? |
Yes I did
She is a Mom.
I love her more everyday, even when she pisses me the hell off.
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79SuperVert
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 7:52 pm Post subject: Re: New Topic: "You married guys will understand this" |
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This one is a bit hard to explain: on the kids' birthdays, my wife feels sad if they don't come over to visit with her. Their birthdays seem to mean more to her than they do to them, since she brought them into the world and it's more intensely personal a commemoration to her than it is to them.
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oprn
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2018 6:24 am Post subject: Re: New Topic: "You married guys will understand this" |
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Very early in our marriage I told my wife that I love liver and onions (she does not) but they need to be cooked right. She bought the liver and I showed her how to cook it.
The next day she made me sandwiches for lunch out of ground up cold left over liver mixed with mayo!!
Lesson learned! |
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Cusser
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| Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2018 9:04 am Post subject: Re: New Topic: "You married guys will understand this" |
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Very early in our marriage I told my wife that I love liver and onions (she does not) but they need to be cooked right. She bought the liver and I showed her how to cook it.
The next day she made me sandwiches for lunch out of ground up cold left over liver mixed with mayo!!
Lesson learned! |
But if you don't speak up when a meal is bad, bet that you'll be served that again !!!
You married guys will understand this: when I wash my shirts and put them to air dry on a horizontal rack in the laundry room, why does Mrs. Cusser feel that it's OK later to lay her wet bras over my drying shirts, like her stuff matters more and she doesn't care if MY stuff doesn't get dry ??? Maybe it's her "oldest child" syndrome....
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