Latest moan from you and me - 2016

If I left my husband to buy his own clothes without at least some input from me he'd have been locked up years ago. He may be able to tell the diffferent colours of traffic lights but when it comes to clothes colour blind doesn't quite describe what he thinks is a fine combination.

 

What a pathetic lot you are.
We are all diferent and have diferent tastes. That should be respected.
Someone who forces their personal tastes on others, and think only they are right, is being arogant.

 

Sure you are!

 

In general, husband shops for his own clothes, by himself. My issue is when I buy him $$$$ sweaters for Christmas and he just wears them to work on something. So, after that, if I want to buy him a "sweater" it is the cheapest I can find. He also requested one time for "dress" jeans. So got him $$$ dress jeans, and now I find them in the wash with car grease on them.
I recall one year, he asked me to go shoe shopping, so we went. We are in a all gender shoe store navigating around. My eye caught some shoes I would like so I checked them out. Mr Jealous comes over and says "hey we are here for me". Like really, I am thinking, "grow -up".

 

I'm so sorry @wiseowl to hear of your dreadful experience. Unfortunately you will have suffered because of how ghastly so many people that the DWP have to deal with are. It's is so unfair the the innocent suffer because of the guilty.
Many many moons ago I worked for what was then the DHSS and started out feeling very "christian" towards most applicants/claiments. Within about 3 months I had become totally cynical and presumed everybody was lying as I had had the wool pulled over my eyes so often.
That isn't an excuse but I'm afraid it's often how we become if enough people make a fool out of you.
Indeed there was 1 occassion that I was threatened with having my face "rearranged" when I refused to believe a claiment had lost yet another Giro!!!! In those days you didn't have the "prison bars and glass"but I can assure you I would have felt a lot safer if there had been.
To just maybe raise a smile, we had a claiment who according to him was basically unable to walk unaided or for any distance and had managed to get an invalid car paid for by the DHSS(those old fashioned little pale blue jobs if you are old enough to remember those).
After having claimed everything under the sun for years somehow we learnt that he was working as a window cleaner!
He was invited to attend to have a meeting with our fraud officer altho he didn't know who he was going to see.
The guy arrived parked his mobility car outside the offices and hobbled in on 2 sticks.
He went in to the meeting and within about 30 seconds he marched out of the meeting(no sticks) strode off, got into the mobility car, backed it up and then put his foot flat to the floor and rammed it into the doors of the office, got out and departed. I believe he got charged with fraud and criminal damage but I had left working for the DHSS before I found out for sure what happened.
Daughter currently volunteers at Citizens Advice once a week. She too is becoming pretty cynical. Did you know that you can get a voucher for a food bank with absolutely no proof that you are in real need? There is a steady stream which turn up at CA and vouchers are given out to all that ask for them.

 

I'm getting all wound up for my root canal filling at 10 past 3 today - I just don't like going to the dentist - I suspect it's something to do with having an operational high speed drill next to my skull .

Oooh - the drilling sound .....

 

Sounds like you're (like me) now too old for jeans. Haven't bought any for about 15 years now.

 

It's been DONE. No pain at all - thank the Lord I have dental insurance - the bill is mounting up. Dentist reckons I may need a 'crown' - now that does sound expensive...