# My wife is mad because I was a jerk - in her dream

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**Created:** [January 11, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-mad-because-i-was-a-jerk-in-her-dream/609169 "2012-01-11T15:50:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-mad-because-i-was-a-jerk-in-her-dream/609169/61 "2015-02-07T06:00:32Z")

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**pkbites** , yeah. You tried rationality mixed with irritability. That never works in this situation. What works is cleaning the garage. Or cleaning out the gutters. Or getting the oil changed. Or even better, changing the oil yourself, cause you’ll have to go shopping for the oil, the right filter, and a filter wrench. And you’ll need the right wrench or socket set to fit the plug in the crankcase. And some jack stands. And one of those small hydraulic jacks. Or after pricing all that stuff, then you go somewhere to get the oil changed for you.

Sometimes, distance is a man’s best friend.

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**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-mad-because-i-was-a-jerk-in-her-dream/609169/62 "2015-02-07T06:44:01Z")

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> [@Skammer](#):
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> Last night my wife dreamt that instead of helping her get the kids ready for me to take them to school, I just went out to the car and listened to the radio. So she was irritated with me all morning, even though (as always) I _did_ help the kids get ready. I even ironed my son’s shirt!
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> Anyone else ever get their SO’s cold shoulder for an imagined offense?

More than once. SWMBO actually hit me in my sleep one night. Now, in her defense, _she_ was asleep when she hit me. It woke both of us up, we figured out what happened and went back to sleep.

She has spent a couple of mornings pissed at me because of dreams. Her (lack of) logic was that she wouldn’t have dreamed it if I didn’t have the possibility of doing whatever it was that she dreamed about.

Wimminz - go figure.

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