This hilarious video from My Life Suckers went viral over the weekend, so I know this is the universal experience for most married couples. The weird thing? For Mike and I, it’s the exact opposite.
He’s the “finder” and I’m the one who stares at the cabinet for extended lengths of time, totally frustrated that I can’t find the raisins that he will later reveal are right in front of my face.
Just the other day, Mike left to pack up the car and told me to meet him downstairs with the kids in 10 minutes. In that 10 minutes, I freaked out because I couldn’t find my phone and to make matters worse, I couldn’t call Mike to ask him where my phone was. You know who found it? Mazzy.
Please tell me that I am not the only woman afflicted with male pattern blindness?
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This is totally my house. But totally my husband. He can’t find anything in the fridge unless it is on the top shelf. He complains that he can never find anything and the house is disorganized. Even though everything has a place.
HA. Definitely my husband. In fact, I used to love to organize everything myself, but I’ve started letting my husband do it because then he’s 50% more likely to find what he’s looking for if he organized that area… So it just takes me a day to learn his new system and then it saves me from having to constantly stop what I’m doing to help him find something in plain sight!
LOL – This made me laugh out loud at work. This is SOOO me. My husband gets so frustrated with me. I blame it on the fact that I have a million things going thru my brain at all times.
We have a running joke… My hubby will be looking for something just like this. I will walk in and immediately find it. He will look at me and say, “Well, that’s your fault for turning off the neon sign that pointed to it.” Some day I am going to actually buy a neon arrow so I can bring it in the room with me while I find stuff.
I had this exact conversation yesterday with my husband (just replace raisins with toothpicks). Almost the exact same cabinet even! I think he pulled out everything in the cabinet with a constant monologue of “where are the toothpicks” “I thought the toothpicks were in here” and me saying “they should be right there!” “I’m positive that’s where the toothpicks are.” Of course this ended with me going to the cabinet myself and handing him the toothpicks (which were right in front!) and putting everything back in the cabinet.
SOOOOOOOOOO my life….also I deal with selective hearing so my husband doesn’t listen to a WORD I say and he can’t find shit either….my life is a dream 🙂
Did he really ask if she was having her period?!? What in misogynist hell!
I’m totally afflicted with Male Pattern Blindness. I ALWAYS misplace my glasses, my phone, my bag, etc etc etc, and the thing is we only live in a 2 bedroom condominium! How hard can it be! My go-to question is “Baby, did you see my glasses?” and he won’t even find it for me, he’ll just tell me where it is, because he would have seen it earlier and made a note of where it’s at (in anticipation of my question, I’m sure). LOL
Yes, this is my husband!!
Once I had to find a bag my husband was holding. He didn’t know what he did with it. Sigh.