How do you.....
02-23-2007, 07:56 AM
#1
Junior Member
Squid
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 22
How do you.....
Sneak any purchases past the misses?
I am going to be getting around £2K worth of parts through the door over the next month - I am trying to cunningly spread them out over a month period - none of them are especially large (no forks or wheels etc) but the packages will stack up and then I actually have to fit them..... I can almost hear her ask what I am doing as I look over my shoulder with the rabbit in the headlights look, bike is in bits, wrapping for new parts all over the place and I manage a convincing "nothing". Then even if I get away with I will be so excited with all the new parts that she is bound to notice my dancing when it is all finished.
So lets just assume I get busted, scrap that, lets all just agree that it is a definite what do I do?
1) Play dead and hope that much like a polar bear she will leave me be
2) Turn it around - "I am so glad that caught me with all these new parts for the bike" (that will put her straight off her stride), "you rememeber ...... "enter story that justifies the spend in a scientific way - usually something around safety does the trick
3)Tell her to **** off as it is my money - the drunk and brave option to be followed by sleeping in the spare room a lot
Thoughts guys
I am going to be getting around £2K worth of parts through the door over the next month - I am trying to cunningly spread them out over a month period - none of them are especially large (no forks or wheels etc) but the packages will stack up and then I actually have to fit them..... I can almost hear her ask what I am doing as I look over my shoulder with the rabbit in the headlights look, bike is in bits, wrapping for new parts all over the place and I manage a convincing "nothing". Then even if I get away with I will be so excited with all the new parts that she is bound to notice my dancing when it is all finished.
So lets just assume I get busted, scrap that, lets all just agree that it is a definite what do I do?
1) Play dead and hope that much like a polar bear she will leave me be
2) Turn it around - "I am so glad that caught me with all these new parts for the bike" (that will put her straight off her stride), "you rememeber ...... "enter story that justifies the spend in a scientific way - usually something around safety does the trick
3)Tell her to **** off as it is my money - the drunk and brave option to be followed by sleeping in the spare room a lot
Thoughts guys
02-23-2007, 08:37 AM
#2
Hmm?
SuperBike
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: San Gabriel Valley
Posts: 2,069
This has worked for me...
Have friends of questionable character that frequent questionable locales with questionable friends of the female persuasion.
That way, your hobby looks much more innocent in comparison.
Have friends of questionable character that frequent questionable locales with questionable friends of the female persuasion.
That way, your hobby looks much more innocent in comparison.
02-23-2007, 08:42 AM
#3
Senior Member
SuperSport
Join Date: May 2005
Location: North Wales, PA
Posts: 809
is the money you spent, money that YOU earned? if she's the bread winner, then you're SOL. but if you made the money that you are spending, then she can sit and spin. by all means, she can give suggestions, even voice objections, but in the end, you make the call, and she had better learn to deal with it. you can't serve 2 masters. there is only the bike
she should be doing some serving of her own. (all this is null and void if she's the moneymaker).
she should be doing some serving of her own. (all this is null and void if she's the moneymaker).
02-23-2007, 09:28 AM
#7
Senior Member
SuperBike
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Buffalo, NY
Posts: 1,572
1) have them shipped to a friend and slowly bring them home when she's not looking
2) have them shipped to the shipper terminal - there's a UPS hub near me and I have things sent there and picked up there to maintain a secret.
3) your having these sent to your address for a friend
Worth a try... Good luck!
2) have them shipped to the shipper terminal - there's a UPS hub near me and I have things sent there and picked up there to maintain a secret.
3) your having these sent to your address for a friend
Worth a try... Good luck!
02-23-2007, 09:37 AM
#8
Senior Member
Back Marker
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Fresno, Ca
Posts: 224
Tell her that they keep getting the order wrong and that you are returning the items, and they are sending the correct part, but they keep screwing it up.
Go down on her that night, works for me.
Go down on her that night, works for me.
02-23-2007, 03:56 PM
#12
Senior Member
SuperSport
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Madison Wisconsin
Posts: 655
I have found out that the truth is much better. I say it keeps me out out ot the bars and point out the safe track day compared to when and if the meat wagon comes up to get you. By the way I have 2 med flights so she likes the quick ride and help thing. Good luck but rember if you lie you have to lie to cover up the lie and so on
02-23-2007, 04:26 PM
#13
Senior Member
Superstock
Join Date: May 2006
Location: New Mexico
Posts: 302
Ha! Thanks for the laughs! I'm surprised no one's asked that question before....
I always use the exhaust pipes that I want (and don't have) as my buffer excuse..."Hey this carbon fiber fender and hugger were only $200 on ebay, thought it was a fair compromise to the $600 pipes!"
Of course you're talking about a bit more money so how about "Cheaper than the new bike I'm eyeing!".
Don't forget to post the pic of your hen-pecked ears for us to enjoy! As George Carlin once said "If you can't laugh at other people's misfortunes...what can you laugh at?"
Good luck brotha!
I always use the exhaust pipes that I want (and don't have) as my buffer excuse..."Hey this carbon fiber fender and hugger were only $200 on ebay, thought it was a fair compromise to the $600 pipes!"
Of course you're talking about a bit more money so how about "Cheaper than the new bike I'm eyeing!".
Don't forget to post the pic of your hen-pecked ears for us to enjoy! As George Carlin once said "If you can't laugh at other people's misfortunes...what can you laugh at?"
Good luck brotha!
02-23-2007, 09:35 PM
#15
Senior Member
Superstock
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Hampton GA
Posts: 442
when UPS leaves it on the porch. I always instruct UPS to bury the parts in the back yard until I get home , But they never do it?
02-24-2007, 06:08 AM
#18
Senior Member
Back Marker
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 134
ahhh! this is what i paid admission for. birds of a feather. i always hope the delivery arrives when the mrs aint home and if she is we are off to the shopping mall for something she is intersted in. also +1 to lunch, dinner and or both!awe rae bes
02-24-2007, 07:22 AM
#19
Senior Member
Back Marker
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Posts: 223
Send her on vacation with her sister that she has not seen for a while. Say for instance a nice spa or retreat. That way you will have the house and the garage for a week all by yourself. On top of that she will come home with a big smile on her face, just be done by the time that she gets home!
02-24-2007, 04:16 PM
#20
Senior Member
Back Marker
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Elgin, Illinois
Posts: 105
I just start dropping little hints about wanting this or that.... Than She gets use to hearing about it, that by the time I get the parts it's no big deal.
Plus it helps that I bought her a new bike for christmas.
Plus it helps that I bought her a new bike for christmas.
02-24-2007, 05:44 PM
#22
Hmm?
SuperBike
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: San Gabriel Valley
Posts: 2,069
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
motojoe
General Discussion
101
09-08-2016 03:05 AM
7moore7
Everything Else
37
06-14-2011 02:47 AM
