My wife won't even get into the new Prius

Don't let her come close to your Prius; don't mention the car and hide both fobs.

Your wife is one awful driver. :|

 

Geeeez. Women!!!

My boyfriend (yes, Im a big homo) always want's to drive the Prius, but I don't let that happen because Im not as trusting as I should be At least he likes it though. I can't imagine someone not liking the Prius, or at the very least appreciating it

I really hope you and your wife get along well. Sounds like she needs a crash course on reality

 

idiot savant

n : person who is mentally retarded in general but who displays remarkable aptitude in some limited field(ie the purchase of a Toyota Prius)

Hide the FOB!!

 

24 years, it sounds like you've got the marriage-to-a-lunatic thing down pat. She must be one hell of a nice person in other respects for you to still be with her.

I agree with the folks who say: "Hide the fob and don't ever let her drive the Prius."

Having lived my entire adult life alone, I desperately want companionship, but I do hope that, if a woman ever does fall for me, she's not a complete wigged-out nut case. (Actually, a fugitive from the booby hatch did take a shine to me once. She wanted to make me her numer-two lover, which would have demoted the then number two to number three. I prefered to remain a virgin, under the circumstances, though we did become pretty good friends for a while. Last I heard she had been in and out of the booby hatch 4 times, with ECT on the last two. Once she stole her mother's car and wrecked it. I guarantee you that if she showed up here wanting to drive my car the answer would be NO WAY!)

 

Daniel:

I hear that!

Actually, isn't Booby Hatch the name of a gentlemen's club in Fargo??

 

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I could have written that.

Last month, I had to take her car in for a major service (near my office, some seventeen miles from home). She elected to stay home all day, as opposed to driving my car.

 

You must be a very patient man, Mr. Taylor. Also wise enough to have realized that you probably will not change your wife at this late date.

I just hope that when she gets her first hybrid car in a few years, as will everyone, that she appreciates her pioneering husband who was brave enough to lead the way with a "small" car with "too advanced" technology. Heck, after she's destroyed her car she may be willing to consider taking over your car when you buy a '08 Prius.

 

"Wife won't get into the Prius"????? And the problem is ? LOL

 

just casually mention once a month or so that you got a bad shock when you touched the car. Just in passing I'm sure after the third time she'll never want to use it. If she asks what your going to do about the shocks just say "oh nothing it's one of those technology things and you'll get used to it" That ought to kill any inkling to use your car.

 

I've never heard of it, and it's not in the phone book. I picked up the term from a James Thurber short story about a man who saw a unicorn in his back yard. His wife told him, "You're a booby, and I'm going to have you sent to the booby hatch!" The story has a happy ending.

 

Daniel:

Sorry man, I was just kidding!

I picked up that line from the popular Fox show King Of The Hill. One of the characters, Boomhower, is "accidently" incarcerated in an insane asylum so he calls one of his buddies, Dale, who happens to be a very paranoid anti-government Conspiracy Theory nut.

We get to listen to a comical one-sided conversation when Dale, who is feeding his pet turtle in his bomb shelter, answers the phone:

"You're calling from where? The Booby Hatch! Oh my God! Wait, are you talking about the gentlemen's club or the insane asylum? ... OH MY GOD!"

Of course, Dale also ends up "accidently" incarcerated, along with Bill. Hank has to go rescue them, where the director of the insane asylum "strongly suggests" his buddies keep taking the medication.

 

I don't know... All this trouble... Maybe you should think about a trade-in.



Brad

 

I LOVE "King of the Hill"! Though I don't get to watch it much.

I almost married a person like that. One day she liked something, the next day she didn't and made out like she never did and that I was the crazy one. Was like I was with 2 different people. Only thing that held things together was our faith, but soon even that fell apart.
I could go on and on, but that would not be appropriate.

 

The unicorn is a mythical beast!

Unlike the Prius, and very unlike the spouse. Good luck with reality. And I agree with paprius4030 that there does not seem to be a problem.

 

Rob, you've been committed to the marriage for 24 years, and I commend you. Marriage is for life, and it looks like you agree with that, and you are doing everything in your power to work with it. Good work.

 

"I don't know... All this trouble... Maybe you should think about a trade-in. "

Are we talking the Prius or the wifey?

 

another act from the great " Taming of the Shrew " You must be a humble gentle soul.
Just drive the car and enjoy...when she see's you doing so, she may be lead your way..It's a bit like therapy...you must start going for your own peace of mind....when you begin to find it she may want in.
Good luck!

 

This reminds me of a horribly depressing novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "Maria de mi corazon". Happily married couple. Wife's car breaks down in a thunderstorm, and she is picked up by the bus from the lunatic assylum. The keeper's list of names is ruined by the rain, so he (or she, I can't remember) asks everyone their names as they get off the bus. Thus the wife gets "enrolled" as a lunatic. By the time the husband locates her, she really is insane and has to stay in the assylum.

By the way, is there any reason marriage must be for life? The human animal tends to form loose (sometimes faithful, sometimes not) unions lasting for variable lengths of time. Marriage for life is a religious idea which suits some folks but not all. It is a very useful structure when two people are compatible, but very damaging when they are not.

 

Daniel, Canada Geese mate for life. if one or the other dies the remaining Goose/Gander doesn't find another partner, they live alone, like you. probably with their car intact (ok wings intact)