:Grumpy:i Need Prayer!!! I Am Going to Choke My Dh!!!!! Dh

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Discussion Overview

The thread centers around a participant's distress over a significant mishap caused by their husband while attempting home repairs, resulting in damage to their house. Participants express sympathy, share similar experiences, and offer humorous commentary on the situation.

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  • Anecdotal
  • Opinion-based
  • Exploratory

Main Points Raised

  • One participant, identifying as a consultant, describes a chaotic situation where her husband accidentally caused a fire and significant damage to their home while trying to fix a water spigot.
  • Several participants express empathy, with one noting they would also feel upset in a similar situation.
  • Another participant shares a humorous take, suggesting that the original poster's storytelling is entertaining despite the unfortunate circumstances.
  • One participant recounts a similar experience involving their partner miscalculating during a project, leading to a fire hazard.
  • Another participant humorously suggests that the original poster might consider moving to Australia to escape the chaos.
  • Several users mention the use of humor as a coping mechanism in response to the stressful situation.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Views differ on how to handle the situation, with some participants focusing on empathy and support, while others highlight the humor in the chaos. No clear consensus emerges regarding the best way to cope with such mishaps.

Contextual Notes

The discussion reflects personal experiences related to home repairs and the unexpected challenges that can arise, emphasizing the emotional responses of participants.

Who May Find This Useful

Participants within the consultant community who have experienced similar home repair mishaps or are looking for a space to vent and share their own stories may find this thread relatable.

Kitchen Diva
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:grumpy:I need Prayer!!!

I am going to CHOKE my DH!!!!!

DH just put a HUGE hole in my house and started a fire in the walls trying to fix an outside water spiggot for the hose... It's windy and the man is playing with a torch and now I have a huge hole in my house, siding that had to get torn off to stop the fire, and 4 gallons of water sitting in between the walls soaking the carpet in my basement and ruining the sheet-rock, wallpaper and carpet....and for those of you that don't know- we just got new siding this week--- and now it's ruined!!!!!
 
Re: Ugh!!!!!!OMG Kacey - I am so sorry!!!!

what else is there to say?
 
Re: Ugh!!!!!!Oh my gosh that is terrible. I would be so upset!
 
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Re: Ugh!!!!!!THERE'S A HOLE IN MY HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!

I started crying and told him to please call a plumber. DH is brilliant with his hands and can fix almost anything...but a plumber and a welder he is NOT! I'm taking that torch when he's done with it and I'm making Creme Brulee, and I'm NOT sharing any of them with him!!!

Fine, I'll share but not until I'm done pouting about the HOLE in MY NEWLY SIDED HOUSE!!!!!! and the water inbetween the walls, and the smoke smell, and the damaged insulation, and the HOLE that has to be covered and the paper they put over that, and the siding that has to be replaced....

Ugh! I'm going to go scream in my pillow...
 
Re: Ugh!!!!!!Okay, I know it's not funny...in fact, I would be feeling like crying too if I were you - but even with this, you are a very funny storyteller. I'm sorry, but it made me laugh!:o

Don't make me laugh if you're looking for sympathy, Kacey!
 
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ChefBeckyD said:
Okay, I know it's not funny...in fact, I would be feeling like crying too if I were you - but even with this, you are a very funny storyteller. I'm sorry, but it made me laugh!:o

Don't make me laugh if you're looking for sympathy, Kacey!

Sorry- I always try to find the humor in everything---but the DUDE put a HOLE in MY HOUSE! WHAZZUUP BROTHER?!?!?!?!!

The hole is the size of a REALLY large Basketball!

Ugh- now I hear a power tool... hang on- I have to make sure he isn't getting ready to saw into the 2x4's...

Ooops, too late.


AAAARRRRRGGGGGG and I don't mean that in a Piratey sort of way!
 
Re: Ugh!!!!!!You poor thing. I don't blame you for considering homicide. One day, a long, long, loooooong time from now, you'll be able to look back at this and laugh. For now, scream in your pillow, stick your tongue out at him, vent to us, . . .
 
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ChefBeckyD said:
Okay, I know it's not funny...in fact, I would be feeling like crying too if I were you - but even with this, you are a very funny storyteller. I'm sorry, but it made me laugh!:o

Don't make me laugh if you're looking for sympathy, Kacey!

It is sort of funny- maybe I should laugh to keep from crying...

So DH just came in the house and said: "Hey, I never said I was a plumber, I just play one on the weekends!"

I'm going to choke him- Yup, choke the ever-living stuffing out of him!:yuck:
 
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raebates said:
You poor thing. I don't blame you for considering homicide. One day, a long, long, loooooong time from now, you'll be able to look back at this and laugh. For now, scream in your pillow, stick your tongue out at him, vent to us, . . .

Did I mention the hole? I can't seem to get past the fact that there's a hole in my house.

Crap- we just bought a new doorbell, and he has to make the hole we have for the old one bigger so it will fit the new one---I'm seriously considering hiding all his tools.

Again, he's a genius with his hands and can fix almost anything... but starting the inside of my walls on fire and having to tear through the siding and the paper and the outside walls of the house to get in there to dump water is a little more of a screw up than I care to handle...
 
Re: Ugh!!!!!!I understand. The Furry Guy once set some stuff on fire right beside the barn. He's a genius when it comes to building and fixing things. He just "mis-figured the wind" while burning some scrap stuff.
 
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raebates said:
I understand. The Furry Guy once set some stuff on fire right beside the barn. He's a genius when it comes to building and fixing things. He just "mis-figured the wind" while burning some scrap stuff.

I am off to find chocolate... I'll be paying for it later tonight with a bad stomach ache, but I feel it's better than breaking open a bottle of Jack Daniels! LOL

thanks for your support guys. I should go take pictures...maybe not!
 
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Kitchen Diva said:
I am off to find chocolate... I'll be paying for it later tonight with a bad stomach ache, but I feel it's better than breaking open a bottle of Jack Daniels! LOL

thanks for your support guys. I should go take pictures...maybe not!

OH no Kacey!! I am so sorry. Sending prayers for the frustration..."God grant Kacey the serenity to accept the things she can not change, the courage to change the things she can and the ability to shove her husband in the hole he made in the wall."

But you are a funny story teller...I would be breaking open the Jack and plotting the homicide right now!!
 
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Re: Ugh!!!!!!Well, DH is back from the hardware store with a nice hunk of plywood for the hole, and some copper pipe and strangely enough the torch is still out there... along with soggy pieces of bread? Why bread you may ask? Well, that's a good quiestion so I asked Professor Plumbermeister that is my DH...what's with the soggy bread on the ground. And he said it's to soak up the water in the line.

Um, okay dear- whatever you say! LOL

I'm soooo hitting a box of brownie mix right now!!!
 
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pampered.chris said:
OH no Kacey!! I am so sorry. Sending prayers for the frustration..."God grant Kacey the serenity to accept the things she can not change, the courage to change the things she can and the ability to shove her husband in the hole he made in the wall."

But you are a funny story teller...I would be breaking open the Jack and plotting the homicide right now!!

Too bad my gift isn't in keeping my husband from starting fires.

Crap- I smell smoke again!!! :cry:
 
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Re: Ugh!!!!!!Well- the hole is now twice the size it was before I went to buy some pancetta for the risotto I'm making for super tonight... I guess the shut off valve is faulty so DH has to dig into the ceiling through the outside of the house and is now trying to replace pipes.

I'm trying to find my passport... I think I'll go to France for the rest of the weekend.
 
Re: Ugh!!!!!!OMG Kacey !!!!! I am sitting in a hotel lobby waiting for my friend to get our of her class we are in portland and I am getting weird looks as people walk by from me laughin at your story I know it isn't funny but omg it is so funny sounding. I feel for you !!!!! I really hope you find the silver lining in this.

I will pray for you and the tools and pray for hubby to live through this as well before you squeeze the stuffin out of him.
 
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Kitchen Diva said:
Well- the hole is now twice the size it was before I went to buy some pancetta for the risotto I'm making for super tonight... I guess the shut off valve is faulty so DH has to dig into the ceiling through the outside of the house and is now trying to replace pipes.

I'm trying to find my passport... I think I'll go to France for the rest of the weekend.

Hey Kacey - have you ever read the children's book "Alexander and The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day"?
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/book.jsp?id=613

I think you should just move to Australia.:D
 
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ChefBeckyD said:
Hey Kacey - have you ever read the children's book "Alexander and The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day"?
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/book.jsp?id=613

I think you should just move to Australia.:D

I LOVE that book! Loved it as a child and LOVE it as an adult! I might just move to Australia!

So John came into the house and said, Honey- I can't fix the hole. I came running out of my den and said as calmly as I could..."Sweetheart, I don't care if you kill yourself trying to fix that hole because if you don't, I'll kill you, so either way...

Then he smirked---darn smirk and darn dimples! He was teasing me! UGH I took one of the pots that he used to douse water on the fire he started and went to smack him with it!!!

He did say that he didn't have anything to fix a hole, but he could fix a sqaure, so he's sawing into the side of the house to make the hole a square so he can fix it.

He asked what was for supper. I told him I was making myself a pan of brownies...but I wasn't sure what he'd be fixing for himself! LOL... don't worry ladies, we had a late lunch so I don't cook supper on the nights we have a late lunch. I was going to make risotto, but my local grocery store does not sell Pancetta! What the heck!!!???

How can you NOT sell Pancetta? Crazy! So no risotto tonight, I'll have to run to the fancy high priced super market in the neighboring snobby-city to find some I guess. I could have sworn I've purchased Pancetta from my neighborhood grocery store before, but I must not have.... I use it often enough, you'd think I'd remember!
 
Re: Ugh!!!!!!Oh Kacey! I feel your pain. Our plumber has banned my husband from even THINKING about touching pipes and such. The shower in our master bath has been dripping for a month and dh promises he will not destroy anything this time but I absolutely REFUSE to let him try.

http://burntchai.blogspot.com/2006/06/multiple-choice-quiz.html
Here is just one of his plumbing adventures. When he yelled from the outside "tell me if it's working" then I heard a huge splash I knew he was up to no good.

Geesh... husbands!
 
Re: Ugh!!!!!!At least there is some light at the end of this!!

I am glad to hear that he is able to fix the hole. Sorry to hear about the Pancetta!!
 
Re: Ugh!!!!!!I think the light at the end of the tunnel is actually a hole in the wall.If it were me, I'd be looking for a room at the Holiday Inn. Or at least the back seat of the car.
 
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The_Kitchen_Guy said:
I think the light at the end of the tunnel is actually a hole in the wall.

If it were me, I'd be looking for a room at the Holiday Inn. Or at least the back seat of the car.

LOL- thankfully the sheetrock that faces the outside of the house is covered in a thick plastic- so the water we threw down the inside of the walls will be soaked up by the carpet- which I can deal with. We're recarpeting within the next year anyway.

The outside water spiggot is now working and is no longer leaking and DH is fixing the square (was a hole until he made it a square) now and it looks good.

the man is a genius with his hands, but not so much a genius before that... thankfully he can fix anything, but this one made me nervous and he admitted it made him nervous, too...

BTW- Hampton Inn has much more comfy beds than Holiday Inn...just in case the Kat Lady ever boots you out of the house! :);)
 
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Kitchen Diva said:
It is sort of funny- maybe I should laugh to keep from crying...

So DH just came in the house and said: "Hey, I never said I was a plumber, I just play one on the weekends!"

I'm going to choke him- Yup, choke the ever-living stuffing out of him!:yuck:

Tell him next time he decides he wants to play plumber, that you want a night with him at a Holiday Inn Express first...

That way you can have some "couple fun" and he'll be better prepared. ;)
 
Re: Ugh!!!!!!Man, missed KG suggesting that first...But I'd go with the "Holiday Inn Express" for the "educational" benefits. ;)
 
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janetupnorth said:
Man, missed KG suggesting that first...

But I'd go with the "Holiday Inn Express" for the "educational" benefits. ;)

You naughty married minx, you! ;)

The hole is fixed, the faucet works, the siding is up and you'd never even know that there was a fire, a small flood, and a hole! Well except for all the chunks of wood he tore away with his hands to stop the fire, and all the soldering droplets that are sprinkled in my landscaping...

I told him that I now have official rights to call him Sparky! (which I've been doing since we met, as during our first kiss, we shocked each other) and he hates it when I call him that- because of National Lampoon's- the wife calls Chevy Chases character "Sparky"

All is well in Kitchen Diva land again!
 
Re: Ugh!!!!!!We usually only call electricians "Sparky"...Plumbers...well, they get called other things......and hey, I'm not the naughty one! DH is! I studied so much this past week for my radio tests that DH e-mailed me an e-book and said I am to study that next...want to know what book it was?
Kama Sutra Book
 
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EdraJayne said:
Oh Kacey! I feel your pain. Our plumber has banned my husband from even THINKING about touching pipes and such. The shower in our master bath has been dripping for a month and dh promises he will not destroy anything this time but I absolutely REFUSE to let him try.

http://burntchai.blogspot.com/2006/06/multiple-choice-quiz.html
Here is just one of his plumbing adventures. When he yelled from the outside "tell me if it's working" then I heard a huge splash I knew he was up to no good.

Geesh... husbands!

Oh, my goodness! I am not sure which of the two of you deserve the STANDING OVATION for not committing homicide! Kacey, you tell a wicked funny (even if it's not funny ha-ha for you right now!) and Jayne...you get first prize for the best blog entry I have seen in quite some time!



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(I am laughing and crying for both of you!)






This goes to BOTH of your hubbys:
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Kitchen Diva said:
All is well in Kitchen Diva land again!

Yeah! Tell DH to go take a shower and then find something FUN to do! You guys have had enough stress tonight (and the last YEAR) so you need it!
 
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janetupnorth said:
Man, missed KG suggesting that first...

But I'd go with the "Holiday Inn Express" for the "educational" benefits. ;)

You're gonna have to drive quite a ways if you want to try that yourself.

You don't have a Holiday Inn Express.
 
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The_Kitchen_Guy said:
You're gonna have to drive quite a ways if you want to try that yourself.

You don't have a Holiday Inn Express.

Yup, we don't even have a Holiday Inn anymore as of a few weeks ago!


We just study and learn the stuff so we don't have to stay at a Holiday Inn Express to be experts - he-he...







So I'm wondering how many have never seen the commercial and didn't get the original joke again anyway...
 

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