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Title: Am I being cheap?
Post by: TAB on February 17, 2018, 09:43:28 PM
So tomorrow  is like go out date day.  I just want to go out and go down the nature trail.  Take a picknick  and just enjoy being out side.  The misses wants to go spends a few hundy(me pay ofc) on something I really  dislike.   Am I wrong for saying it is too much money?
Title: Re: Am I being cheap?
Post by: Big Frank on February 17, 2018, 11:33:31 PM
Yes, you're wrong, but not being cheap. Learn your place, TAB. Instead of saying it's too much money, maybe you could have asked why she would want to do that. Too late now. You know she's the boss, and you have to do what she wants, not what you want. But try not to resent her for it.
Title: Re: Am I being cheap?
Post by: Rastus on February 18, 2018, 11:25:24 AM
Not wrong.  Had a battle along the same lines today.
Title: Re: Am I being cheap?
Post by: Solus on February 18, 2018, 03:44:54 PM
If you also liked this, TAB, would it be too much?

Be sure you not being cheap on things that will make her happy just because you don't like them.



Title: Re: Am I being cheap?
Post by: Big Frank on February 18, 2018, 08:55:05 PM
If mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. We've all heard it. I think that most of the time it's true.
Title: Re: Am I being cheap?
Post by: TAB on February 18, 2018, 10:39:48 PM
If you also liked this, TAB, would it be too much?

Be sure you not being cheap on things that will make her happy just because you don't like them.
yes, I am not spending $300 in a meal that could get for $60 other places
Title: Re: Am I being cheap?
Post by: Big Frank on February 18, 2018, 11:44:05 PM
yes, I am not spending $300 in a meal that could get for $60 other places

When I said you were wrong, I was wrong. Now that I know what you were talking about, I think you're being sensible, not cheap. I never thought you were cheap anyway. Taco Bell is cheap. No meal is worth $300 unless you have a lot more than 2 people.
Title: Re: Am I being cheap?
Post by: Jim Kennedy-ar154me on February 19, 2018, 07:27:37 AM
When I said you were wrong, I was wrong. Now that I know what you were talking about, I think you're being sensible, not cheap. I never thought you were cheap anyway. Taco Bell is cheap. No meal is worth $300 unless you have a lot more than 2 people.

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What he said. If I eat at a place with a $300.00 meal it better come with both hot and cold running maids.

Having said that there definitely truth in the saying "Happy wife, happy life"
Title: Re: Am I being cheap?
Post by: Solus on February 19, 2018, 11:32:36 AM
yes, I am not spending $300 in a meal that could get for $60 other places

Very good then, I think....  sounds like "Atmosphere" is what she enjoys at the place.
Title: Re: Am I being cheap?
Post by: Timothy on February 19, 2018, 12:47:22 PM
If she earns a living, works the hours that a surgeon works as a resident, which are numerous I’d expect, then she probably deserves the right to an expensive meal!

Since she’s good with a blade and you sleep next her then 300 bucks might be the best route to take!

But, what would I know?  I’ve only been married to the first wife for 34 years!  There won’t be a second...
Title: Re: Am I being cheap?
Post by: Big Frank on February 19, 2018, 12:52:47 PM
A friend on mine said she spent upward of $50 at Black Rock Bar & Grill, but didn't say how many drinks that included. If they served margaritas, she had them. At Black Rock you cook your own steak or seafood at the table, on a piece of volcanic granite heated to 755 degrees, until it's done the way you like it. They suggest 1 minute cooking time for seafood and 5-60 seconds for meat, depending on how you like it. 25-35 seconds gives you a steak cooked medium. I've never been there and won't likely go. I can't recall ever spending more than $30 just for myself on a meal, but usually I have a glass of iced tea or lemonade, and not alcoholic beverages.

http://www.blackrockrestaurants.com/
Title: Re: Am I being cheap?
Post by: Solus on February 19, 2018, 02:35:12 PM
If she earns a living, works the hours that a surgeon works as a resident, which are numerous I’d expect, then she probably deserves the right to an expensive meal!

Since she’s good with a blade and you sleep next her then 300 bucks might be the best route to take!

But, what would I know?  I’ve only been married to the first wife for 34 years!  There won’t be a second...

Wasn't there another story about a woman with a knife getting ticked at her husband???  Bobbit or something like that?
Title: Re: Am I being cheap?
Post by: Big Frank on February 19, 2018, 02:36:07 PM
Wasn't there another story about a woman with a knife getting ticked at her husband???  Bobbit or something like that?

Lorena bobbed it.
Title: Am I being cheap?
Post by: Timothy on February 19, 2018, 04:46:55 PM
Lorena bobbed it.
Then threw it into an empty lot!
Title: Re: Am I being cheap?
Post by: Big Frank on February 19, 2018, 10:44:41 PM
Then threw it into an empty lot!

Later John Bobbitt did 2 pornos, John Wayne Bobbitt: Uncut, and Frankenpenis. Too bad for him he never regained full sensation.

Moral of the story? Don't ever, ever, ever piss off a woman who knows her way around a knife.
Title: Re: Am I being cheap?
Post by: PegLeg45 on February 20, 2018, 06:35:39 PM
Later John Bobbitt did 2 pornos, John Wayne Bobbitt: Uncut, and Frankenpenis. Too bad for him he never regained full sensation.

Moral of the story? Don't ever, ever, ever piss off a woman who knows her way around a knife.

Black & Decker makes an electric carving knife......... in her hands it would be the Black & Decker Pecker Wrecker.

 8)
Title: Re: Am I being cheap?
Post by: Big Frank on February 21, 2018, 12:31:09 AM
Black & Decker makes an electric carving knife......... in her hands it would be the Black & Decker Pecker Wrecker.

 8)

 :o
Title: Re: Am I being cheap?
Post by: Rastus on March 09, 2018, 05:55:04 AM
So tomorrow  is like go out date day.  I just want to go out and go down the nature trail.  Take a picknick  and just enjoy being out side.  The misses wants to go spends a few hundy(me pay ofc) on something I really  dislike.   Am I wrong for saying it is too much money?

So what was it Tab?  Did you break down or what???    8)
Title: Re: Am I being cheap?
Post by: TAB on March 09, 2018, 09:05:37 AM
Nope, ended up grilling a steak at home.  I am all for going out, but I can not see spending $300 on a meal for 2.  I work very hard for every dime I make.  I am super frugal  about personal spending. 
Title: Re: Am I being cheap?
Post by: Big Frank on March 09, 2018, 05:37:35 PM
I buy most of my food on sale or with coupons, and lots of times both, then get rebates from savingstar.com. Other things I buy no matter the cost just because I want them. When I get 30% or more off my groceries, it gives me more money to blow on something good. When I want steak I usually pay someone to grill it over a wood fire.