Petty vent: DH doesn't realize how big the internet is
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Anonymous
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DH is only 42, but he has this old man trait where he is constantly asking me if I saw some particular news article or reddit thread that he had seen earlier that day, and is surprised when I tell him that I didn't. It's like he conceptualizes the entire internet as a local newspaper where we are all reading the same headlines. It drives me crazy.
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Anonymous
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Why does this drive you crazy? Seems like such a small thing. I'm not being snarky, I just really don't get why it bothers you?
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Anonymous
| Lucky you. Now that my DH and I are home all the time, we've got nothing left to say to each other. So I say, did you see this interesting bit of information I read? And he says, yes, and tells me all about it. And the conversation ends. |
Anonymous
To add, I know that you already acknowledged it's petty. My petty vent would be that my DH always forgets to close the bread --> stale bread. Still petty, but it's obvious why it bugs me. I don't get why yours bugs you (but I'm happy to kvetch about it with you!). |
Anonymous
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Similar “old man” situation here. My husband asks me if I heard about such-and-such, and is floored when I say it happened last week, or two days ago. He gets his news from Yahoo News... |
Anonymous
| The internet's big, but most people hang out in small spaces. I ask my husband if he's seen stuff I saw all the time, and most of the time he has. It's helpful because it means I know whether to jump right into my thoughts about, e.g. Bean Dad, or whether I need to explain first. |
Anonymous
You need to explain first, at least Bean Dad, to me. |
Anonymous
+1 Saying "did you see [X]" is a common opening conversational gambit. DH and I say this to each other all the time, either about relevant topics in the news or viral videos/memes. Sounds like OP just hates talking to her DH. |
Anonymous
| This is better than my husband. He told my cousin who works at Google “I don’t need Google, DW is my Google.” He is a blank slate who wants me to give him any information about anything in digestible little bites. At least he does laundry! |
Anonymous
| OK? |
Anonymous
Mine does this too. I admittedly spend way too much time on Twitter, cable news, digital news of all types, so I'm always like, yeah, that happened yesterday. I miss when we had different days and human interactions that we could share with each other. |
Anonymous
| The way the algorithms work for news it's very likely you will see the same headlines if you look at CNN or Google news for example. |
Anonymous
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My husband sends me emails about things I already knew about for 3 years but I pretend I don't know about it. He's recently retired and finding things out that he finds awesome.
He loves telling me stuff. I refuse to let my ego get in his way because I love him very much. |
Anonymous
The people I am closest to tend to have similar taste to me and consume similar media. It's pretty frequent that when I've seen something interesting, they've already seen it. |
Anonymous
Mine too! |