Am I The Only One?

Am I the only one who has a hubby who thinks differently to the rest of us?

This lunch time I popped down to see if my friend in the village had finally given birth to her baby which I knew was due while we were away last week.

Anyway it turns out they now have a little boy and has she had had a rough time and was in hospital for a week she hadn't had time to text to let me know.

I sent a text to Mr Kandy asking him if he went out round the shops in his lunch break to see if he could get me a "Boy Birth card".He sent back "Ok".That was the last I heard from him until he got home from work tonight and he asked me why I hadn't answered his text message asking me what Age Birthday Card he needed to buy?

Surely he could have read the message properly that I wanted Boy Birth Card and not a Birthday Card for a boy Mr Kandy even argued with me that I had actually asked for the Birthday Card until I showed him the text message I had actually sent.And he didn't even apologise

So am I the only one who has this problem from their husbands/partners?

 

Hi Kandy,

And I would.
Surely you should have asked for a " congratulations on the birth of your baby " card
.

 

Yep that's confirmed it @Kandy ...Men are definitely from Mars

 

I'm with Woo on this one. I'd have read it as an abbreviated version of 'boy birthday card' or a mis-spelling.

'Boy birth' somehow just doesn't read right to the male brain. If I was sending the text, I'd probably go with 'new baby boy' or 'baby boy birth'.

 

I'm on your side Kandy......... Mr AB would have probably called me to ask multiple questions whereas Master AB would have done the same..... Its a 'MAN' thing and he wasn't listening when you were talking about it whilst you were on holiday

 

And Women are from Venus!

 

see,
even from birth, boy babies are trouble....
Jenny

 

Am I missing something here.... Whenever someone I know has had a baby I've sent a " Congratulations" card.
Why is my post so funny ?

 

Men should be able to read our scripts we don't have to write chapter and verse after all us women know what you men are thinking, what your going to say and do before you do it

 

So far i agree with the men i would presumed it was a typo and that you wanted a birthday card for a boy

Maybe im not really a girl

 

I dont send cards.
Makes life so much easier.

 

That is a female mistake: expecting one!

It's hard enough when they realise they have messed up (they soooo hate that!) - apologising is simply expecting too, too much! That would be the equivalent of them being beaten up and then calling out to the aggressor: "Come back! There's a part of my face you haven't stamped on yet!"

Rule of Life: Never expect a man to apologise: his silence is evidence enough that he was wrong, he knows it; end of! Expecting an apology is akin to rubbing his face in it

Rule of Life: If you want a man to do something, anything, you have to be literal, straight to the point, exact! "New Baby Boy" would have covered it: it says what it is on the tin! Boy-Birth-Card is far too vague and open to interpretation

Rule of life: Never, EVER, give a man any opportunity to think for themselves - it never works! Either they will take months mulling it over and then come up with some male interpretation (which will never be a female one) and then feel wounded that it didn't work or, they will make and instantaneous decision ... and feel wounded when it wasn't right. AKA lose:lose!
Why? Because of their mothers! For some strange reason, mothers seem to think their sons require everything done *for* them: thinking, cooking, organising, thinking, cleaning, thinking, preparing, thinking, ironing, thinking, budgeting, thinking, shopping, thinking; etc. And then the wives wonder why they have married someone who (appears to) regress into child mode Blame the mother!!

Despite the hospital stay, I'm glad that your friend and her new son are doing well and the new Dad can breathe a sigh of relief