My Epic FAIL

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I am so in the dog house with my wife...

My mom took her out for her Birthday lunch & so I did a bunch of yard work while she was gone. Then I got the bright idea that while she was gone, I would weed & pretty much clear the 20x10 section under the kitchen window. To me, all I saw was a single rose bush (which I left alone) & a bunch of other plants that I took to be weeds, as I never saw my wife beautify the area. So I spend a few hours clearing the area under the window while she was gone & then raked it flat. By this time, i'm all proud of myself.

Then my wife comes home & she goes ballistic. Apparently some of the "weeds" I had pulled, were very old Hydrangias, which also happened to be her most favorite flower in the world. To then add insult to injury, I am told they were going to be blooming within a few days as they had already sprouted buds. All of this I did not notice.

Then i'm told we can't afford to plant any new plants or flowers for awhile & so now we have this big bare spot in the front of the house directly under the kitchen window. What started out as great intentions, ended up with me getting in some serious shit with my wife & possible inlaws as they are the owners of the house...

Looks like top ramen for dinner for the next week.

-MRG
 
Haha, that sucks man.

But, how were you supposed to know? Damn flowers and weeds all look the same.
 
Ouch. My Dad did something simular once, although not quite as bad as this. I don't suppose you can retrieve the "weeds" and put them back into the ground?
 
that's why i never try to do anything good
 
That is something I would probably end up doing...

D:
 
This is what happens when you violate the manlaw that, when pertaining to yard work, state "If it does not involve mowing the lawn, don't do it if you're not asked to do it."
 
Yeah, better not try to do anything good I suppose. That's totally something I would do too... :\
 
Ouch, I sympathise. I've seen some cataclysmic rows occur over well-intentioned gardening that for some reason ends up hurting another person's feelings badly. At least you're not the first person to be in this very situation.
 
Wow. I could see myself doing this in a few years :|

Bad luck buddy.
 
Operational said:
Ouch. My Dad did something simular once, although not quite as bad as this. I don't suppose you can retrieve the "weeds" and put them back into the ground?
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Well, I had to run an errand & so was gone for a couple hours. When I came back to pick up something I had forgotten, my wife was civil to me. Whoa! As any married man knows, if suddenly their special other do a 180 on them like that, it can only mean the wife has something nasty up their sleeve as payback. So when I came back, my wife asked if I would mind going to Lowes with her. Knowing they have flowers there, I decide to get into her good graces & agreed to go with her. Come to find out, my wife actually had cooled down quite a bit while I had been gone & had gone online & spent a good deal of time reading up on how to "revive" a cut plant. Come to find out that there is this rooting compound that you use that will make the cut stem of the Hydrangias regrow their roots. So my wife decided to get all she needed from Lowes garden department & is in the process of saving her favorite flowers.

Thank god that the week before I had gotten a gift certificate for Lowes from where I work because I was a safe worker....

-MRG
 
In conclusion, your wife likes weed(s).

Success?
 
Here's what you do. You buy her some new flowers, her favorite type. Acquire them how you will.

Bring them to her, tell her that you are sorry for what you did, as you only had good intentions in your mind. And help her plant the new ones. Make an effort to enjoy her gardening from here on out as you can make time for it.

Do this up until the point she does something stupid that pisses you off so much that the tables are turned and then you turn on that bitch and make her make you feel better!
 
make a mess, and let her clean it up. women love cleaning.
 
Now there's no point crying over every mistake,
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake!



... >:3
 
Don't you live in the same house? I mean, you meant well, but it seems strange to not have a vague idea of what your wife is up to, especially if she paid for those flowers and took the time to plant them.
 
MRG said:
My mom took her out for her Birthday lunch & so I did a bunch of yard work while she was gone. Then I got the bright idea that while she was gone, I would smoke weed & party
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Sorry but this is what my eyes told me initially :LOL:
 
Baal said:
Don't you live in the same house? I mean, you meant well, but it seems strange to not have a vague idea of what your wife is up to, especially if she paid for those flowers and took the time to plant them.
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The flowers were already here when we moved in & I guess she had watered them some & pruned them. All while I was unaware. So now in front of the living room windows, we have 10 plants all repotted with the root hormone.... My fingers are crossed that they grow...

-MRG
 
Baal said:
Don't you live in the same house? I mean, you meant well, but it seems strange to not have a vague idea of what your wife is up to, especially if she paid for those flowers and took the time to plant them.
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The flowers were already here when we moved in & I guess she had watered them some & pruned them. All while I was unaware. So now in front of the living room windows, we have 10 plants all repotted with the root hormone.... My fingers are crossed that they grow...

-MRG
 
You can never do something as bad as my dad once did. When he bought our house, he removed all the so-called weeds from our sandstone wall which goes around our entire garden (a good 250 metres worth of wall). Those "weeds" turned out to be grape vines, but they looked like dead branches in the heart of winter. Man, it'd have been awesome to have so many grapes :(
 
Beerdude26 said:
You can never do something as bad as my dad once did. When he bought our house, he removed all the so-called weeds from our sandstone wall which goes around our entire garden (a good 250 metres worth of wall). Those "weeds" turned out to be grape vines, but they looked like dead branches in the heart of winter. Man, it'd have been awesome to have so many grapes :(
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Sweet Jesus. Your mum would of beat him something good :p
 
I can only picture a Rabbid doing all this, the plant-wrecking thing, while shouting obnoxiously, and a few moments later one in a dress and hair-rollers proceeds to beat the crap out of you.

> < It sucks screwing up by having good intentions.
 
I think folk who buy little weedy flowers thatlook like weeds can shove right off.

If your gonna have a garden then bloody well have nice big bushy and tree like plants that can be all alive and shit all year round, none of that poncy weed like flowering naff.

Hard luck with the missus though.
 
bah....
you mowed some damn flowers... its not like you caught the house on fire or spray painted it camoflagued. these can be replanted fairly easy or new things can be planted...

so all in all tell her to STFU.... the yard is clean and if she wants flowers in the front of the house she can plant them. :p
 
cut everything down in the entire neighborhood. That way the flowerbed will look full in comparison.
 
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