Originally Posted By LOUDROCK My wife wanted to buy a new Hummer five months ago and I said "absolutely no way, no how, forget it" to her. I insisted on a Honda CRV. The battle lasted 4 days and I won. I told her that getting one of those gas eating machines was totally irresponsible to this Earth and our wallets because of their horrible 12 miles/gallon and the fact that she would only drive around herself. Was I right?
Originally Posted By LOUDROCK No, I have been geeting more than I need all along. As long as she keeps up the wife role I'm fine.
Originally Posted By cape cod joe Try having food battles and battles over the kids' disciplining and business battles (my wife's my partner) and man it's amazing the divorce rate is not 100%
Originally Posted By LOUDROCK You know something joe we have had battles over family, kids, food and business but nothing was as fierce as the suv story. I won and I am richer for it. I had to tell her that she needs to act like a wife and relent and I finally won.
Originally Posted By imadisneygal "I had to tell her that she needs to act like a wife and relent and I finally won." I'm sure it was said with a great deal of charm. <eyes rolling>
Originally Posted By cape cod joe Rock--No offense but I'm with Ima on this one who was very gentle with you. To ME-----ONLY ME -----I've had to follow my wife around for 31 years. This is personal but I'll be brief. I've finally discovered about 6 months ago, that it is NOT demeaning for me to ALWAYS have to chase after her when she WON'T listen to me. I'm so rational, etc and she doesn't GET IT! But I learned just 6 months ago or so that we all have our foibles and that's hers. It's not weak of me to follow her and NOT expect her to always give in to me. With this real estate she yelled and argued and "I'm going to embarrass you at the paper passing and not sign" I hung tough we made a fortune and she has apololized ever since. I've been similarly stubborn over other things. It's all give and take, I THINK> and shouldn't ge I WON or she WON and is exactly why a lot of Hollywood couples break up. Marriages based on competition tend not to last. Now YOU are on the moral high ground, NO question as you know I fear global warming but the "act like a wife" is not good. I hope you were just being a hot head LIKE I TEND TO BE and didn't really mean that. I'm sorry as this is NONE of my business so take this with a not telling you what to do--this is strictly personal freedom and my lousy 2 cents.
Originally Posted By StillThePassHolder "I had to tell her that she needs to act like a wife and relent and I finally won." And then Thag sez to Mook, "look out for rock."
Originally Posted By mrichmondj If you had bought the Hummer, it would have helped out my ExxonMobil stock -- not that it really needs any help!
Originally Posted By avromark So how much more gas does the V6 car use compared to the 4 cyl SUV cape? Hummer 3? It's a pickup
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy I have an SUV, but I need some'in' that's roomy so's I can sit up straight 'n have some leg room. I just try to find the silver linin'...at least my workplaces aren't far from me.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad You can drive whatever you want. I personally found it hard to believe at first that you two would argue over two such opposite vehicles, but then I don't because we had a similar thing happen. The part about the Hummer being bad for the planet...you're kidding right? I drive a '06 Suburban which is more or less very similar in fuel consumption to the H2. I traded my 2000 in for a new one just like it. The one I traded had well over 150K miles and 6 years of kid transport duty. I sleep soundly at night, and I honestly don't care one bit if gas prices go over $5 a gallon, I'll STILL drive that mofo. As for the wife part... My wife and her happiness is far more important than most anything to me. My wife tells me two years ago, "Honey, I know that the new body style is coming out in the Mercedes Wagon. I want either one of those, or a Beetle Convertible, I don't care which." I set straight away comparing prices, and do you know the wagon was special order at the time for around $70K, while the Beetle was $23K...$24K for the turbo drop top. Call me crazy...I splurged and got the Turbo Drop Top and that VW runs just fiiiiiine to this very day.
Originally Posted By cape cod joe Chris--great story--We love our wives and there is a time and place to hang tough, but a car? Who cares? I HAD to and am continuing to play Orlandoopoly for the fam's sake, but cars won't make or break the fam. On most things my wife says "JUMP" and I say "How high?" as she cleans the 5000 square foot 6/4 house, the office condo, runs the business, dishes, laundry, homework with kids, and on and on so SHE has first dibs on most things.
Originally Posted By LOUDROCK It is so irresponsible to drive a large suv which gets 11 miles/gal when there is only one person in the car and there is no cargo being transported. Our CRV Honda sees close to 30 mpg on the highway and it can fit 5 people. I am telling you that even if we won a Hummer on Price is Right I would have not let her drive that beast 1 mile unless she was hauling large and heavy cargo or 2 other passengers. Even though I do not work now because I recently quit from Lowe's in the millworks dept. and she practices as a dentist I still have lay down the good rules. She thinks just because others in her field get to have 60 thousand dol. cars that eat up our resources that she is entitled to do the same.
Originally Posted By tiggertoo There are plenty of reasons for not wanting a Hummer, I'll grant you that. But, I'm the man, ergo, I'm the boss shouldn't be one of them.
Originally Posted By tink_26 Loudrock- Just because you are out of a job gives you no right to tell someone else how to do theirs! "I would not let her....", LET, are you kidding me?! I cannot believe there is a woman out there that will allow that lack of respect! The real issue here is your attitude, not an SUV sucking up HER income!! Get a job.
Originally Posted By tink_26 BTW- I have decided to go to Starbucks, just my mom and I. We will be in my great gas sucking SUV, hell we might roll down the windows and use even more gas- just cuz I can! Mocha anyone?
Originally Posted By tiggertoo <<Just because you are out of a job gives you no right to tell someone else how to do theirs!>> Wait a minute, I agree primarily with what you are saying tink, but the yours/mine attitude is exactly why the divorce rate is so high in the world. My wife and I are a team, WE decide what to do with OUR money regardless of which partner brings it home. For a while, my wife was the primary bread winner for our family and she would not make any major financial decision without my approval. I did the same when I was bringing home the bread before I went back to school a number of years ago. Same goes for Loudrock, the “I say what we should do because I’m the man†attitude is, as STPH implied, Neanderthal or at best archaic. You are a team of equals, threat you wife that way or she will, in time, look for someone who does.
