5 posts tagged “wife”
Wife's supervisor moved today's work time start up from 06:00 to 05:00. wife complained about it and yes, it sucks because it was a last minute thing and it means we both have to get up that much earlier (me especially), but I told her she should look at it in that her supervisor may look upon her more than the other people in the department as someone who 間に合う's.
Anyway got up at 03:30 made her her breakfast, and as I usually do on Friday morning's, print out her schedule for the coming week and put it beside her food. She already knows she has this Sunday off and the rest of the schedule is off on Monday, then a straight 5-day 06:00 to 14:30 from Tuesday to Saturday and off again on Sunday.
Now Sunday is time and a half, regardless and for that reason, many actually prefer to work on that day. The first thing she zeros in on is 'Why do I have 2 Sunday's in a row off?' 'I'm full-time and should have priority before the part-timers' (which most of the people are), and then complaining about having to work 5-straight days. Doesn't do much good to point out that from a supervisor's point of view, she (the supervisor) has to be fair in allocating who gets to work on Sunday's, and when it comes to a straight 5-day week, Ah, that's what I used to do without complaint. Sure I had a desk job but......
Being a bit self--centered and a glass half empty person is not a fun thing.
It's going to be a hot one today, and since there really wasn't anything else hanging in the closet to put on, grabbed one of the 'notorious' Hawaiian shirts I own, put it on and went downstairs where wife was waiting for me to take her to work.
One look and:
あのシャツで店に入って来ないでよ！えりもくしゃくしゃだし！
Unfortunately for her, I am not about to 'dress' my age, nor am I overly conderned about what a complete stranger may think about what I've got on.
One reason why the store where my wife works is more successful than the traditional supermarkets is that marketing has a very fine, usually clever sense of linking products with other ones, creating hopefully for them, more sales.
Thus there is always a stand of bananas in the cereal aisle, a small display of seasonal cheese near the fruit, wine located near the cheese section, etc.
As I came to pick up the wife yesterday, there was in the front of the store, a large selection of roses, a wine tasting stand and boxes of chocolate placed nearby the roses. But also, nearby the area in the front for customers to pick put and purchase long stemmed roses, there was a small refrigerated display. Saw some heart-shaped boxes and thought 'chocolate' and went over to take a look. It was not chocolate, but sushi in the boxes and next to the heart-shaped sushi bentos (I guess that's what you'd call them), were boxes of gyouza too.
Don't know about others, but presenting to someone you care about and waht to say 'I love you' , some roses , sushi & gyouza seems more than a bit unromantic.
Dilbert is right, marketing people should never be let out of sight.
I’m scrubbing my son’s accumulated crud off the area he uses on the family bathroom counter. My wife, next sink over, putting on make-up for work:
She: 料理と洗濯は上手になったね。
Me: 完璧でしょう。
She: 違う、上手。
Me: uh-uh, 日本人は思ったことを直接言わないから「上手」＝「完璧」
She: 理屈っぽい！勝手に解釈にせ！
Me: へへへへへへへへへへへへ。
And I’ve got news for her; I’ve been a decent cook way before this period of unwilling unemployment!
I have a Hawaiian shirt, 2 actually, which my wife hates no matter when I choose to wear them.
Sometimes she tries to appeal to my sense of season
「もう９月のよ！」
So what, its still hot.
Failing that, she tries this tact
「あのシャースは流行遅れよ！」
Oh? A co-worker of hers, a native Hawaiian at that, loves this shirt.
As a last ditch effort, there this:
「あのね、大体あいいうシャースを着る男は中年、女をもてない男だ!」
OK, so that means it’s alright to ‘have one on the side’????
You know, I am surprised that she hasn’t gone and cut the shirts up into rags yet.
