Busted – A Letter to My Husband
I do not mind if you want to treat yourself to something special. Lord knows you deserve it. You work hard, you’re an amazing husband and father. You even encouraged and supported my trip to BlogHer – who could ask for more??
So, if you want to purchase Bengals season tickets with your pal Jason, I have no problem with that. You are a huge fan, through thick and thin, and you deserve it. What I do find surprising is that you would buy them without even chatting with me about it first.
Imagine my surprise when I received the following note, sent by Jason’s wife Amie, via Facebook this morning:
“Ready to give up your husband to mine for the Bengals season? Thanks for letting him split with Jason to make it possible!”
The question I have been asking myself is, “Was I not at my desk this morning when you and Jason were exploring the option of buying tickets? Was your phone not working? Did your text messaging option on your cell phone break?”
Those are just a few of the ways you could have reached me.
I don’t know perhaps you could have borrowed Jason’s phone? It obviously was working since he had time to chat with his wife about it.
In conclusion, please know that I love you dearly and I know that you will have an amazing time at Paul Brown this season. I would just appreciate a “courtesy” call next time.
Who Dey!
Shannan
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Oh I feel for you! I’d be in big trouble if we lived in Minnesota because my husband eats/sleeps/breaths all things Vikings.
Busted is so right! LOL!
I’m doing the math, and though Terry and I aren’t married, I’d STILL glare. a LOT.
I know it’s not of the same magnitude, but Rob tends to buy large boxes of action figures and toys without telling me and I don’t know about it until the box arrives at our doorstop. This is less of a problem because of the money involved, and more because I have a strict “One toy in, one toy out” policy that he refuses to comply with.
Dearest Mommybits,
Sometimes you have to have the guts to make a call. I have those guts. Be damned the consequences. That’s part of the reason you married me, I make the hardest choices, like Blogher or these tix, easy for you. I know when to put my foot on the gas.
While I recognize the outage on my part, I also recognize the wonderful grace and generosity of my wife. I know when she’ll be in support-we know each other that well. I want to take a moment to thank her for affirming that support with this post.
DH
Nice. It’s times like this I’m happy my hubs isn’t into sports. Now if I can only convince him to give up motorcycles… Sigh.
hmmmm so am I now GLAD I didnt make it this year?
ponders.
naaah.
NFL sunday ticket cant be that expensive—can it?
I’ll use this as a tale of caution for my future husband. It starts with Mario Kart, and it’s all down hill from there.
I’ve been there. It’s a weird thing – I love Rex’s independence, but I also like to be asked.
Hope you’re settling in after Blogher. It was so nice chatting with you at the bar my first night in. Thanks for taking in a stranger!
Shannan – great post. My husband once bought a car off eBay without telling me. The car was being delivered and about 15 minutes before it finally got to our driveway (where it sat for a year!) he told me. Why do they do that?!
They’re lucky we’re such good, FORGIVING wives!
Fun meet-up yesterday. Thanks again for all your prep and work.
Debba http://www.girlfriendology.com
My apologies to “DH”
before he had a chance to chat with you. My “DH” chatted with me in the car before buying them while he was chatting with your husband.
for busting him
: ) SORRY.
Lol. No worries. It was quite funny to be able to “bust” the DH with my knowledge of the tickets. I loved it and it made the DH squirm for a minute. Let’s also not forget that it reminded him that he can’t get away with anything as I have “people” everywhere!lol
I think your husband did a selfless deed by buying those Bengals tickets.
Think of it this way: Would you prefer for him to yell and scream 4-letter words at the TV as the Bengals blow lead after lead in front of the kids, or would you rather him take out his rage away from home and be calm and collected when he returns? He obviously was thinking of the family.
I’d make out with him as gratitude if I were you. Several times.
Brian
TheLifeOfDad.com
Oh NO he Din't. Sounds like something my husband would do, and then he'd be all "I don't need to run EVERYTHING by you" and I'd be all "Wanna Bet?" Especially if it were Bengals tickets because that would involve airfare & hotel rooms. And he's not even a Bengals fan. So he'd have some 'splainin to do.
Meghan -
Since you live in California I can see how you’d have a problem with the expense involved….lol. I love that you always make me laugh.
LOL I bet he thought it would be better to tell ya in person so he could smile at you
My husband is a HUGE Bengals fan. Also, I want to rip his face off when I hear about some decision he has made from one of his friends wives or girlfriends. Granted he doesn’t do it on purpose. It just gets to me sometimes.
I was the one who made the rash decision to buy Bengals season tickets over my lunch break one year! So, all I have to say is “Welcome to the Jungle, Suckers!”
Actually, I’m glad we have season tickets, even though the last year was an upset. At least you got someone to split them with you. We always try to sell at least half of ours. I’m hoping we won’t take a loss on them this year!