Wife printing too many photos
Posted by: Dungassin on 27 May 2010
Last week I eventually persuaded SWMBO to look at a file of >500 photos and decide which she wanted prints of. She did her usual trick and said "I've got rid of most of them (she hasn't - I still keep digital copies), and I definitely want these printing". I checked ... 286 photos.
Comment from me "are you SURE you want all of these printing off?" Reply "YES!!!" Being a coward, I acquiesced and went to Boots and put them into their system.
Got them back yesterday and went through them :
100 of north Tenerife scenery - basically duplicates of what has been taken on previous trips.
3 almost identical photos of grandson's birthday cake
Lots of out of focus photos of flowers ... etc etc.
If I'd been picking, it would have been at most 40 prints. Women!!
I wouldn't mind, but the only one in our house who ever looks at old photos is me. Still, I suppose it's a lot cheaper than my collecting type hobbies.
For instance she'd been hassling me about "who was it who sang Mambo Italiano". I said Alma Cogan, but later checked and of course the original was Rosemary Clooney. The only trouble was various old tunes from my childhood started running through what is left of my brain, and as a result today I received from Amazon CDs of Alma Cogan, Rosemary Clooney and Susan Maughan. All part of me continuing to acquire recordings of artistes I disparaged in my youth. Sad, I know, but there it is.
Comment from me "are you SURE you want all of these printing off?" Reply "YES!!!" Being a coward, I acquiesced and went to Boots and put them into their system.
Got them back yesterday and went through them :
100 of north Tenerife scenery - basically duplicates of what has been taken on previous trips.
3 almost identical photos of grandson's birthday cake
Lots of out of focus photos of flowers ... etc etc.
If I'd been picking, it would have been at most 40 prints. Women!!
I wouldn't mind, but the only one in our house who ever looks at old photos is me. Still, I suppose it's a lot cheaper than my collecting type hobbies.
For instance she'd been hassling me about "who was it who sang Mambo Italiano". I said Alma Cogan, but later checked and of course the original was Rosemary Clooney. The only trouble was various old tunes from my childhood started running through what is left of my brain, and as a result today I received from Amazon CDs of Alma Cogan, Rosemary Clooney and Susan Maughan. All part of me continuing to acquire recordings of artistes I disparaged in my youth. Sad, I know, but there it is.
quote:i think it might be cheaper to buy her an ipad!
But she's a complete techophobe! I did try to suggest to her that she access photos via the DVD recorder etc and view them on the TV, but no go.
I've tried to teach her how to use a PC or Mac (and in the past Acorn RISCOS) computer, but every time I get her to do something computer based I finish up giving her a piece of paper with stepwise instructions on it.When her DVD recorder/PVR/camera misbehave it's always me who has to sort it out, which I usually do without resorting to the manuals. Her? Never read a manual in her life. Standard approach with any new gear (washing machine etc) is to make me read the manual and then explain it to her.
My daughters have tried to make her at least vaguely computer literate, even if only to the extent of being able to wor a mobile phone. Total failure. If my iPhone rings while driving, I have to stop and answer it even though she is sitting next to me.
As regards the photos, it's not the cost, which is small, but the sheer space they take up when installed in the inevitable albums.
I love her dearly (when we're not having our fortnightly blazing row - Mediterranean temperament etc), but sometimes ...
Feeling very misogynistic this evening.
Just remembered that I wanted to say that when something goes wrong with DVD/TV etc, her approach seems to be to press every button randomly and hope it will "get better". You should see the fuss if I try to remove the remote from her while she's doing this. I've learnt the hard day that this means that my standard fix should be a factory reset and then laboriously re-enter her preferred settings. (sigh)
I'm currently in the bad books because I had tea (dinner if you want to be posh) ready at 6 rather than 6.30. I'd decided to experiment with my standard mince and mash and make it like a hotpot with sliced potatoes and grated cheese on top rather than the usual mash. She asked me what I'd done, and then broke in halfway through the description and then had the cheek to accuse me of interrupting her when I tried to get a word in edgeways. Talk about double standards!
Why do we put up with them ...
p.s. I still prefer the Rosemary Clooney version.
Just remembered that I wanted to say that when something goes wrong with DVD/TV etc, her approach seems to be to press every button randomly and hope it will "get better". You should see the fuss if I try to remove the remote from her while she's doing this. I've learnt the hard day that this means that my standard fix should be a factory reset and then laboriously re-enter her preferred settings. (sigh)
I'm currently in the bad books because I had tea (dinner if you want to be posh) ready at 6 rather than 6.30. I'd decided to experiment with my standard mince and mash and make it like a hotpot with sliced potatoes and grated cheese on top rather than the usual mash. She asked me what I'd done, and then broke in halfway through the description and then had the cheek to accuse me of interrupting her when I tried to get a word in edgeways. Talk about double standards!
Why do we put up with them ...
p.s. I still prefer the Rosemary Clooney version.
quote:Sounds like you're living the dream, buddy
Yes. 2 daughters, 2 sons-in-law whom I like, 2 lovely grandkids, good relationships with the rest of my and my wife's family, and a wife who I love - in spite of her volatile temperament and frequent lack of logic. I MUST love her, or why else would I have stayed with her for 40 years?
Just that I feel the need to moan about her occasionally - just as she possibly is occasionally less than complimentary about me to her friends. I suppose I'd better not antagonise her too much ATM if I really want that nDAC.