Tales of supreme stubbornness -bonus points if your example involves a married couple

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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A female friend’s husband dropped a ceramic ashtray in their basement near the bottom of the steps but didn’t bother to sweep up the broken shards. She was pissed, of course, and did not clean it up either. Neither of them mentioned it to the other. After a few days, she noticed that he had placed a pair of slippers in the bottom step; he would slip them on before walking through the minefield of broken ceramic. So she started using the slippers as well. The broken pieces remained unswept.

I’m not sure how long this went on, or how it got resolved, but I know it lasted at least a month.

Whatta ya got?
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2

Are the couple’s names Raymond and Debra?

3

I, FOR ONE, STILL REFUSE TO GET A TV!

(Nor a modern smart-phone neither, but I may be kinda-sorta wavering on that one.)

4

Oh big deal. I know a lot of people without them. I haven’t had one since 1972. What else you got?

5

Are we sure the husband dropped the ashtray, that it wasn’t the cat who knocked it down the stairs and it broke at the bottom? Maybe the husband and wife both think the other one broke it and is being stubborn in not cleaning it up.

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It’s a riff on the alleged self-righteously self-superior attitude among the No-TV-stalwarts, as often alleged by the TV-enabled class. See, e.g.,

Do you think people who don’t watch TV are braggarts/snobs? (OP mentions an even earlier thread but doesn’t give us a link.)

“I don’t own tv” people

7

Given how popular cord-cutting is now, you’ve lived long enough for a problem to just go away.

Living the dream, living the dream.

8

hh

9

I once got so mad at my stepmother that I quit the family business, bought out a competitor, then bidded against the family business for TWO YEARS, until my parents relented and bought me back out.