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Stupid things I do March 18th, 2011
Got a call at work from my husband.
Dave: Are you going to the store later?
Me: Yeah.
Dave: Can you pick up a couple things?
Me: Sure. Go ahead.
Dave: Cat food, paper plates, cheese and light bulbs for the bathroom.
Me: I can’t get that.
Dave: Can’t get what?
Me: Light bulbs. I don’t do light bulbs.
Dave: Huh?
Me: I don’t do light bulbs. Remember when I tried to replace the kitchen one without measuring and I was so sure I had it right, but I was wrong and it cost like twelve bucks and you had to take it back and get the right one?
Dave: Oh, yeah.
Me: They have so many stupid bulbs now! The corkscrew kind, what are those? Are those the new eco ones we’re supposed to buy now? I hate those. I can’t even find the three-ways anymore. So don’t ask me to try the sphere ones. I won’t get it right. God, I hate light bulbs.
Dave: Are you gonna have problems like this with the cheese? Because if you are, I’ll just go myself.
Me: What? Don’t you trust me?
Dave:
Me: Dave?
Stumble it!
March 18th, 2011 at 5:44 pm
I think I hear the sound of Dave’s car starting up. Or his head banging against the wall. 🙂
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March 18th, 2011 at 5:44 pm
Whee! First to comment! That never happens. 🙂
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March 18th, 2011 at 5:52 pm
A conversation that is repeated millions of times across the civilized world every day.
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March 18th, 2011 at 6:09 pm
where did those 3-way lights go anyway? I have a lamp that does those and I prefer the low sometimes and high others. it is quite annoying
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March 18th, 2011 at 9:38 pm
LOL
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March 19th, 2011 at 2:57 am
3 Ways are much harder to find than they used to be. Cheese is not really a problem. He can go pick those up himself!
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March 19th, 2011 at 6:12 am
My husband sent me to Auto Zone once to get some part for the car. It was one of those things where you have to look up the car information in a big book and get a bunch of part numbers. Are you kidding me? Thank God the guys who worked there were kind and helpful.
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March 19th, 2011 at 6:12 am
Well, we have lots of lightbulbs that don’t fit things here you can have. Because we both do the “purchase the wrong lightbulb” thing. But we never seem to return them. And then I keep them, thinking someday we will have a chandelier that fits that specific bulb. Maybe you should buy new light fixtures to match the wrong size bulbs you have. heehee
March 19th, 2011 at 7:24 am
OMG… The worst store disaster I ever had was trying to find a new light bulb for my oven. I went for years without being able to see what I was baking just because I gave up trying to find that bulb. Meanwhile, my friend with chickens is panicking because they’re going to outlaw the old fashioned bulbs… she uses the 100 watts to keep the coop warm.
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March 19th, 2011 at 9:36 am
The male person buys the light bulbs around here. Since the yurt has all energy star lighting the bulbs don’t screw in they have pointy ends. Some have two pointy ends some have three pointy ends and some have 4 pointy ends.
It’s insane. The publicist thinks the lightbulb makers did it just so you would buy the wrong light bulbs
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March 19th, 2011 at 1:39 pm
That’s so funny you can’t get light bulbs! We use those corkscrew kind whenever we can because they do last longer than the other normal ones and save energy. The dumb thing is that they can’t be covered so we have plain bulbs everywhere pretty light fixtures. Oh well, it makes it easier to change them then!
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March 19th, 2011 at 2:31 pm
I am right there with you on this one. In fact when they announced they were outlawing the old light bulbs, and we had just gotten an Easy Bake Oven, I started hoarding them. I hate the cork screw ones because you have to call hazmat if they fall on the floor and break. And the NEVER fit into the lamp or light you want to use them in.
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March 19th, 2011 at 2:39 pm
The most interesting aspect of that dialogue is the classic husband/wife exchange. A husband attempts to solve a problem by handling it himself and his wife turns it into a relationship issue. Mars and Venus in action. LOL
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March 19th, 2011 at 3:57 pm
Surfie — Hee. Yeah, there’s a special area in the dining room for head banging. We have to keep repairing it. Poor guy. Congrats on being the first commenter! Your excitement is so cute!
Bruce — No doubt. And probably the uncivilized too. Probably started with cavemen and women. “Thor, I don’t do fire.”
blueyes — Annoying indeed. I had the hardest time finding them the last time I went. There should be a whole section of them, but there wasn’t. I looked for an eternity until I found the two they sold. WTH!
Grace — Hee.
Linda Medrano — Cheese is sometimes a crap shoot. They keep moving my favorite Cabot again. And there’s like three different places in the store. Why don’t they just have a damn cheese aisle! At least the light bulbs are in one place. Geesh.
absepa — Oh, no. No, no, no. I could never do that. I tip my hat to you. I thought I could get new windshield wipers, but then I thought better of it. Big book. Too scary for me. At least you got them with help. I couldn’t even do that right.
Bacon — “…thinking someday we will have a chandelier that fits that specific bulb.” Oh, that’s funny! Laughing more at the idea of buying lamps to fit all my wrong bulbs. That would be such a Kathy move, wouldn’t it?
Boom Boom — You have to know what happened to my brain when I read “My friend with chickens…” I could not imagine how the rest of that sentence would end. Cracking me up! Poor chickens. I hope she finds the right kind on the black market or something.
Pricilla — Three and four pointy ends??? Oh, the humanity! Remember when there was like just one light bulb? The classic one. And everyone was in stock and happy.
Karen — I know, but I hate them! We use them in the basement and a couple other places. I hate going to the basement to clean the cat boxes because it’s so dim down there. Makes my basement look creepy. Me no likie!
Jen — BULB HOARDER! And yeah, I’ve heard about dangerous breakage. Something else for me to worry about. And like I told Karen, I hate that they don’t cast as much light. PITA.
HJ Smith — I hate that the Mars/Venus thing is totally true because I’m the one who always seems to come out looking like a nut case. But I’ve come to accept it. Still, it gets me out of buying light bulbs.
March 19th, 2011 at 4:00 pm
I love this conversation. 🙂 Save this for your novel.
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March 19th, 2011 at 4:55 pm
This happens all the time at my house. So we keep it simple. My wife buys the chocolate, I buy everything else
March 19th, 2011 at 11:40 pm
Dave had a problem with cheese once, right? I think this evens things out. Also three-way bulbs sound a bit perverse.
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March 20th, 2011 at 6:24 am
We have an entire BOX full of light bulbs. How come some bulbs look pink, some look bluish, and some look white? One of a pair always blows out first, and then when you replace one, the other is the wrong color light. I have lightbulb angst. That is a little strange for a cat, right?
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March 20th, 2011 at 11:01 am
Possibly because my husband’s name is Dave but more likely because I can’t stand the new lightbulbs, I have lived this conversation. I can’t figure the new bulbs out and I am in the process of hoarding old bulbs for my daughter’s new Easy Bake Oven. It’s new but it only takes old bulbs — alas!
It was great “meeting” you last evening and no, you don’t look like Cher. 🙂
Cheers,
Traci
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March 20th, 2011 at 11:12 am
I’m with Dave on this one–buying the right bulbs is very difficult. I don’t like the new ones and they look downright awful in the fixtures. Ugh. I’m still confused on why we have to use them as there is mercury in them and they are considered hazardous when they break or go in landfills. What do you bet they’ll be outlawed in a few years?
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March 20th, 2011 at 3:31 pm
It really IS a nuisance looking for the right replacement. When I find the right ones, I tend to buy a bunch of them so that I don’t have to do it again for a long time!
March 20th, 2011 at 5:20 pm
As for me, I love CFLs. I only use them or LED bulbs in my house. I don’t think I’ve bought an incandescent bulb in eight years.
But what’s with the different socket sizes?
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March 21st, 2011 at 12:11 am
Maybe the moment Dave didn’t answer is the moment wherein he is picking up his car key and ready to buy/pick up those things he told you to do LOL.
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March 21st, 2011 at 4:10 am
Nanny Goats — I could probably write a novel of just such conversations. We have many of these. All ending with my husband bewildered.
Chris Casey — That is brilliance. And way easier.
Lauren — Yes! You remembered! So I guess it all evens out. He can’t buy my cheese, and I can’t buy his light bulbs.
Daisy the Curly Cat — I do not understand the light bulbs either. Light bulb angst is OK. You just have to learn to get other cats to buy them for you. Harley would probably help you. Yes, I know he would, because he likes to know how things work and would be interested in many different kinds of bulbs.
Star Traci — This is the second time someone said they were hoarding bulbs for the Easy Bake Oven! I just googled the topic and someone said the company is changing the heating element all together so you won’t need bulbs. However, you’ll have to buy a new oven, so I guess people are still screwed. Great to meet you Saturday! And thank you for saying I don’t look like Cher. I never did take that as a compliment.
lin — What? Mercury? OMG. This is bizarre. And that’s supposed to be progress?
Ferd — See. That’s why you’re smart and I’m not. I never think to hoard them when I find the right ones. Although I do do that for jeans. When you find the right fit, you must buy five!
Stephanie Barr — I feel fortunate I haven’t experienced the socket size problem. YET. I don’t like the new ones because they don’t appear bright enough to me. Yes, OK for a reading lamp, but not OK for a whole room. Ugh.
RonLeyba — Most definitely. He knows when to stop listening and just do. He’ll have to add light bulbs to the list of things I don’t understand. The list is long.
March 21st, 2011 at 4:32 am
Hahaaa…A short, simple but takes time to go through totally. Not simple the light bulbs, cheese or the housework… but the methods to solve the problems by the two sides born on the two different planets- Mars and Venus.
March 21st, 2011 at 2:16 pm
I’m with you Kathy. I don’t like buying light bulbs either. When did shopping for light bulbs – go and get all complicated anyway?
March 21st, 2011 at 2:26 pm
We always buy a pack of six, of the old type, though we have mainly the curly ‘eco’ bulbs everywhere now. We have just bought LED bulbs for our kitchen. They are so expensive, but are supposed to save on electricity, making them eco friendly AND cheaper to run. They’d better be, the bulbs cost a small fortune!
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March 21st, 2011 at 5:15 pm
I agree with you. I like the bright light bulbs, the brighter the better. She only likes dim ones because she doesn’t need much light to see. So I make sure she buys the bulbs, not me, because she will hate the ones I buy.
March 21st, 2011 at 10:13 pm
I therefore conclude that, after reading Kathy’s post and reading other people comments about that post, its the LIGHT BULB to blame. LOL
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March 22nd, 2011 at 10:51 pm
You lost me at the three-way comment. It’s get funnier the longer you think about it. hehe
March 24th, 2011 at 2:34 am
I like light bulbs. They fascinate me in all their forms. I don’t know why.
March 24th, 2011 at 7:55 am
How do you not spontaneously combust under the pressure of these things? 🙂
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March 24th, 2011 at 7:53 pm
OMG…my husband is obsessed with lightbulbs. I don’t do them either unless he gives me a bulb to take to the store. Even with Christmas lights I have to consult with my husband. The guy at Lowe’s thought I was insane because I’m like “do they twinkle or do they random sparkle? They have to random sparkle” and then I asked him to wait while I called my husband and I spent three minutes or so discussing the dilemma and the conclusion was that they just wouldn’t do.
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March 25th, 2011 at 3:49 am
Nice! I just learned that those corkscrew bulbs are not supposed to be used with dimmer switches. That’s unfortunate since I have three of them in the dining room light fixture.
I don’t know if Armageddon will occur or if my dining room will burn to the ground tomorrow but I still have them in there. If the industry is going to make changes like that they need to make those new bulbs work universally.
Yes, I will be the one complaining and bloodied when the dining room goes down in flames, but it’s the principle of the matter.
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March 25th, 2011 at 8:58 am
Hah, funny!
I think you should be able to get the right one by looking at the rate of energy conversion (the thingy measured in watts). Look at the value from your old lightbulb then search for one with the same value in the supermarket (it doesn’t matter what shape it is) it should deliver the same amount of light and consume the same amount of energy.
P.S. Hmm, I forgot, but was silence a negation or a positive answer :))
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March 26th, 2011 at 4:34 pm
That reminds me.. I need a lightbulb for my daughter’s room. Now I’m nervous!
March 30th, 2011 at 7:17 pm
That’s freaking hilarious. 😀
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