This Girl Scout cookie typifies my horrible marriage.
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My husband takes my daughter around to sell Girl Scout cookies. " Thanks, DH! Good job!" All is fine. Thanks for participating for once in your child's life. Appreciate it.
When we get the cookies, they go around and deliver them. Still all is fine. Dh is feeling like superdad and bragging to everyone what he has done AND saying, "I can't wait for leftovers." I try to explain: there will be no left-overs. You only get what you put in an order for. I get an email this morning. "Here are the left-over cookies: 2 Rah-Rah Raisins, 7 Thin Mints, 10 Samoas, etc etc etc." "Hmm?????" I ask, "Can you please clarify? Left-over??? Do you mean ones that have not yet been delivered???????????????????????????" He calls me saying, "No, they're left-overs. We delivered them all. These are left-overs." I try and I try to explain that there should be no left-overs; we only put in the order for what he had. He continues to insist, getting angrier and angrier, "I went out there and did all this cookie ordering!!! These are left-overs!!!!!!!" THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE. WE DID NOT GET EXTRAS. DH HAS LOST TRACK OF WHO ORDRED WHAT AND WHAT HE HAS NOW DELIVERED AND NOW OUR GS COOKIE SITUATION IS A TOTAL CLUSTER-FUCK. Why cannot he handle the simplest situation?? Why? Why?? Why????? |
Anonymous
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Wow. You don't exactly sound like a nice person yourself. I mean, from the first sentence I could tell you were one of "those" women.
Do you also nag and micromanage? Are you big on telling him not only what to do but how to do it? |
Anonymous
I did not tell him a thing how to do this GS cookie situation. He totally ran with it. Here we are. |
Anonymous
| Dude, its extra cookies not the end of the world. Put an email out to the troop that you have extras. People will buy them. |
Anonymous
What about our neighbors who have paid for cookies and then got nothing delivered? |
Anonymous
Ha. You aint slick. You totally did that on purpose.lol. you knew he would fail. |
Anonymous
I did not know it was even possible to fail at GS cookies. |
Anonymous
| OP - let him handle the fall out - you let him run with this. Let him finish it. |
Anonymous
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Agreee, you sound awful. This also means that the people who bought them did not keep track of what they ordered. Sounds like DH bulk ordered (perhaps tonreach a quota) and then went around selling off what he already ordered. Especially considering that all along he knew they were going to be leftovers. m
Certainly not the end of the world. But if you want to keep acting like he is the only one with the issues, go ahead |
Anonymous
Thanks. Yeah. That is the only thing I can think of too. Still, it makes me feel embarrassed, for him, for my daughter, for us. Why is everything so darn difficult? |
Anonymous
You have vastly over-estimated the competence of the average human. |
Anonymous
If all along he knew there were going to be leftovers it almost sounds like he ordered 100 boxes himself and then sold off those 100. Sp the leftovers are the ones he did not sell. |
Anonymous
I've been on the recieving (or not receiving, as it were!) end of this. My sister's bff was selling cookies for her daughter. I ended up with cookies I didn't order, and no Thin Mints. She lost track of who wanted what. I'm not ordering through her this year. Sorry, op. I've often wondered how these guys function at work when they can't handle administrative details at all. I can understand your frustration. |
Anonymous
No, DH did not do the ordering. He went around with DD to do the selling. Gave me the sheet. I gave it to the cookie mom and she and I meticulously counted out each order and recounted and recounted. I brought cookies home. On the weekend he and DD went around. Somehow, now, there are "leftovers." |
Anonymous
| Why is this your problem? |