# Tales of supreme stubbornness -bonus points if your example involves a married couple **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 31, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-supreme-stubbornness-bonus-points-if-your-example-involves-a-married-couple/792470 "2017-07-31T00:19:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-supreme-stubbornness-bonus-points-if-your-example-involves-a-married-couple/792470/1 "2017-07-31T00:19:30Z")
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? mmm ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-supreme-stubbornness-bonus-points-if-your-example-involves-a-married-couple/792470/2 "2017-07-31T00:47:11Z")
Are the couple’s names Raymond and Debra? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-supreme-stubbornness-bonus-points-if-your-example-involves-a-married-couple/792470/3 "2017-07-31T02:49:20Z")
**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.) ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-supreme-stubbornness-bonus-points-if-your-example-involves-a-married-couple/792470/4 "2017-07-31T03:07:54Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > **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.) Oh big deal. I know a lot of people without them. I haven’t had one since 1972. What else you got? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-supreme-stubbornness-bonus-points-if-your-example-involves-a-married-couple/792470/5 "2017-07-31T03:23:10Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-supreme-stubbornness-bonus-points-if-your-example-involves-a-married-couple/792470/6 "2017-07-31T03:30:32Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > Oh big deal. I know a lot of people without them. I haven’t had one since 1972. What else you got? 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?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=679792) (OP mentions an even earlier thread but doesn’t give us a link.) [“I don’t own tv” people](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=709918) ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-supreme-stubbornness-bonus-points-if-your-example-involves-a-married-couple/792470/7 "2017-07-31T04:54:04Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > **I, FOR ONE, STILL REFUSE TO GET A TV!** 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. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-supreme-stubbornness-bonus-points-if-your-example-involves-a-married-couple/792470/8 "2017-07-31T05:49:57Z")
hh ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-supreme-stubbornness-bonus-points-if-your-example-involves-a-married-couple/792470/9 "2017-07-31T12:39:13Z")
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.