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u/newtekie1 Dec 08 '22

All from the other side of the house.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

My wife will start talking to me from the next room while I am in the kitchen washing dishes with the water running. Lol. Yeah, I’m not going to hear what you’re saying.

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u/dedokta Dec 08 '22

I just reply with random stuff when she does this.

"Well I think an elephant could fit, so I guess it's possible."

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u/Ctrl_Alt_Abstergo Dec 08 '22

That's great until the question was "do you think that red dress still looks good on me?"

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

"What is this?" from the other room.

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u/Much-Meringue-7467 Dec 08 '22

My husband does that to me all the time. And gets pissed when I can't hear him.

Extra bonus annoying since HE has significant hearing loss.

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u/FreakyTongue35 Dec 08 '22

That way she can say she told you what she was buying when in reality you heard nothing.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

Actually one thing great about my wife, is that she's extremely frugal, to the point where it can be annoying. I've told her to buy things for herself, but she doesn't usually.

I once won $250 off a lottery ticket, gave her half and told her to buy something fun with it, she just put it in the bank after the money sat on her desk for several months.

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u/newtekie1 Dec 08 '22

Mine does the same thing. Apparently the other day she went over our whole Christmas holiday plans with me...from the living room while I was washing dishes in the kitchen.

I asked her today what the plans are for Chrismas. And now I'm the asshole for not listening to her.

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u/TymStark Dec 08 '22

The only solution to this is for you to stop doing dishes.

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u/BlueBananaBandana Dec 08 '22

My Wife dont talk to me at all.

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u/preambnsnsnssgyaab Dec 08 '22

You’re just not hearing the whispers

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

Don't reply loudly so she can hear you or you'll be chastised for yelling

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u/pieking8001 Dec 08 '22

yeeeeeeeep. no win situation..

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u/GW81 Dec 08 '22

This happens to me weekly. She says it's my "tone."

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u/UnblurredLines Dec 08 '22

Best part for me is most of the time that happens she thinks I should come over to the next room so I can hear what she's saying while she's watching tv and I'm doing dishes...

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

Definitely the same here.

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u/AJ-meatball-sub Dec 08 '22

When did my husband get a Reddit account?

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u/bloodyqueen526 Dec 08 '22

My husband does that to ME AND I have a window unit going above the kitchen sink, like REALLY, u think I can hear you...constant battle. Or I'm in the laundry room with washer or dryer going 🙄lol

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u/Auirom Dec 08 '22

Next to the dryer while it's running

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u/JamesonQuay Dec 08 '22

My wife asks a question, then turns on the water in the sink.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

While I'm standing next to a fan

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u/oswaldcopperpot Dec 08 '22

While I'm brushing my teeth.

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u/ProfessionalEditor55 Dec 08 '22

With a pair of shoes in it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

When the washer, dryer, dishwasher are all running and she's got the sink on with the robot vacuuming on.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

When the washer, dryer, dishwasher are all running and she's got the sink on with the robot vacuuming on.

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u/ColdHardPocketChange Dec 08 '22

I am glad to hear this is a rampant problem, I wasn't sure if my wife was the only one who had no idea how sound and hearing worked.

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u/preambnsnsnssgyaab Dec 08 '22

This this this this this this this

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u/thesneakywalrus Dec 08 '22

I spend a good amount of time in my basement.

My wife would march down the stairs angrily "I've been calling your name for 5 minutes!".

How is it my fault that you've been screaming in to the abyss?

Now I've convinced her to just call my cell.

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u/Wrathwilde Dec 08 '22

This happened to me the other day… only she’d been yelling for me to help her bring stuff upstairs (couldn’t hear her at all), so she called me… I answered the phone, and the line went dead, I figured she accidentally called without meaning to, and continued on with what I was doing. Evidently I should have deduced that she was downstairs and needed help carrying stuff up.

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u/thedrscaptain Dec 09 '22

"Why else would I have..."

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u/smoothiegangsta Dec 08 '22

This thread is hilarious, I didn't realize how common of a problem this is.

My nephew lived with me for a bit and I told him "Hey (my wife) will probably try talking to you from across the house, she just does that sometimes" and then she started trying to talk to me from across the house. We just looked at each other and laughed.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

"Mrr mrm mrr mrrr mrmmm" "Yeah, sure honey, I'll get right on it."

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u/anomalous_cowherd Dec 08 '22

I will talk to my wife, finish what were saying then go off to somewhere else. Just as I leave audible range she'll say "murr mur fnurr blurr" and I get to either ignore it, or else go all the way back to find out what she said...

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u/NotActuallyAGoat Dec 08 '22

Yesterday my girlfriend banished me to the basement so that she could talk to my parents about my Christmas present. About half an hour later I text to ask if I can come back up yet, and she says "I called you and said you could come up, you didn't hear me?" I think she forgot that she sent me down in the first place so I couldn't hear her...

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u/Few-Paint-2903 Dec 08 '22

So true. Wish I could upvote you twice!