Possibly retrobution from the Queer Pants debacle…
My wife enjoys designer coffee, Starbucks, The Coffee Bean…
However,she refuses to drink my Yuban…and that’s OK.
Of the three gifts I gave my wife for her B’day, the one I thought she would most
enjoy, The Senseo Coffee Maker, she has rejected.
This coffee machine prepares the coffee expresso style with lots of Froth.
My wife used it a couple of times and proclaimed it is not her cup-of-tea?
She boxed it all back up and wants me to return it.
I don’t return things…
What has happened to my Marriage?
If I would have not acknowleged her B’day and not gotten her anything, there
would have been serious reprocutions.
So Now, the Dynamics are Geo-Stationary.
Any other gift I will graciously accept even if it is a rubber band. If I want appliances, I can go pick them out myself. Not saying there is anything wrong with appliances as gifts, but I would prefer something other than that which reminds me of housework. Perhaps your wife is of this mindset as well?
So, your wife gets you a pair of pants you don’t like and refuse to wear, and you got her a coffee maker she doesn’t like and refuses to use, and you think that means there are problems in your marriage? Oh, please. Sometimes you buy presents the other person doesn’t like. It happens, and it’s generally not a big deal as long as it’s handled with a modicum of civility and sensitivity.
I mean, it’s not like she spit on the box and yelled “This sucks and so do you!” the second she unwrapped the thing. She got it out, gave it a try, and decided that she doesn’t care for the way it makes coffee. She didn’t carry on about nobody could possibly ever like something like that, or say anything else hurtful or insulting, simply that it wasn’t her cup of tea. There’s no malice in not liking certain ways of preparing foods you love, nor is there any malice in not liking the way certain appliances work. She’s not exactly dancing around yelling, “See? See how it feels to have to take your present back? Whose pants are queer-lookin’ now, sucker?”
Now, the fact that you think your wife would be capable of something so petty and childish as deliberately rejecting your present solely because you hated hers, that indicates there might be problems in the marriage.
And what’s this bit about, “I don’t return things”? Is this a moral position? Or just laziness?
My wife and I have both returned gifts we got from the other person. Neither of us saw much a big deal in it. I’m not sure why you do. Sometimes, you buy things that the other person really can’t use, or which doesn’t fit, or which turns out to be not as good as you both thought it will. So it goes back. And I always return the gift for her if she can’t use it - I bought it, so I return it.
It seems to me your wife gave your gift a fair shake. She didn’t just reject it out of hand. She made a good faith attempt to try it, and she didn’t like it. Why should she be forced to drink coffee she doesn’t like? That’s not much of a birthday present.
Hm, I am not certain you can return an appliance that has been used at all unless it is defective, and not liking the coffee it makes doesnt make it defective [unless it was bought with a no matter what return policy]
On that note, could you sell/give it to a friend [making sure that if they buy it they know it was used and she didnt like that style of coffee?]
I love the idea of pod brewing coffee, but dont want mrAru spending the money on one, and though our expresso machine is getting a bit battered, same thing, it still works so I am not replacing it yet=)
<mark me down as not only liking tools and appliances, but my favorite christmas present was a small chainsaw for firewood, and a new planishing stake setup=)>
I wouldn’t accept a coffee maker from you either, since you refuse to return to the thread you mentioned and fill us in on the details we asked for. We still don’t know for sure what kind of pants they were!
I think you guys are being too hard on Mr. Roboto. I saw the OP and the ‘What has happened to my Marriage?’ line as an attempt at humor. I suppose I could be wrong.
I was tempted by one of those in Costco today. I almost never make coffee just for myself because TheLadyLion doesn’t drink it at all. The little single serving coffee doohickeys appealed to me for that reason then my planned obsolecense warning went off. I don’t want to be locked into buying proprietary coffee pods. It’s worse than frigging Microsoft.
Now just MHO but tha Melitta coffee maker looks like a giant art-deco butt plug so I thnk it wins the gayness award.
I feel so sheltered and naive. I didn’t see anything in that Melitta coffee maker other than that it was a weird color.
At least he’s got his pants on. I’ve seen worse. (warning: much worse. Link probably isn’t safe for work, or while you’re eating, or if you just want to feel good about people in general.)
This morning, a customer had some questions about the Senseo, which I couldn’t answer, so I had to open the box and get out the instruction booklet. While so doing, I somehow gouged my cuticle (the cardboard was very sturdy, and tightly sealed).
I didn’t realize it was that bad until I looked down and my entire fingertip was red. I hastily excused myself in search of the first-aid kit, and when I returned, the customer was gone, and he never bought the Senseo. So I shed blood for nothing. :mad:
