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Oh my I am in the pooo again 🙄 but doing a shed load of decorating before my crime was discovered softened the reaction I think

I bought a Cotic Soul and sold my 456 without telling the fun police but today I got caught with the evidence in the shed

I was amazed she could tell the differance between a 456 and a Soul

Perhaps the 456 being dark blue and the Soul being orange might of been a pointer.

Perhaps my SO aint so daft after all

Time to call the forth emergancy service

http://www.scillyflowers.co.uk


 
Posted : 27/11/2011 10:35 pm
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LOL like me you think they know nothing but my wife
knows every part on my bike.


 
Posted : 27/11/2011 10:37 pm
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this is why all your bikes should be one colour


 
Posted : 27/11/2011 10:38 pm
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Just deny it, blame it on the "Paint Fairies"


 
Posted : 27/11/2011 10:39 pm
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I just tell the wife if I'm buying something.


 
Posted : 27/11/2011 10:40 pm
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lol, last time I did this I got the same colour and it was a month before she noticed when I was fettling in the dining room, the conversation went-
"oh yeah how much did that cost"
"£50"
"bull***t"
next time we went to the bike shop she was looking all over for a yeti 575


 
Posted : 27/11/2011 10:40 pm
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Perhaps the 456 being dark blue and the Soul being orange might of been a pointer.

😆

D'you reckon, yeah? 😀


 
Posted : 27/11/2011 10:41 pm
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Perhaps the 456 being dark blue and the Soul being orange might of been a pointer

Women have 27 different words for pink, dumbass 🙂


 
Posted : 27/11/2011 10:42 pm
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shouldn't be a problem. souls have a lower wife price than 456s don't they.

she should be happy that you've made a few bob by trading the 456 in.


 
Posted : 27/11/2011 10:42 pm
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Why did you let your wife into the shed?


 
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I just tell the wife if I'm buying something.
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It's a revolutionary idea, but that's what I do too.

Seems to keep me out of bother quite well.


 
Posted : 27/11/2011 10:43 pm
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I just tell the wife if I'm buying something.

I'd have to agree with this. Seems a bit odd to me all this hiding.


 
Posted : 27/11/2011 10:44 pm
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Seems to keep me out of bother quite well.

Well, yes. But I like a little mystery in my marriage, and it's more fun this way.


 
Posted : 27/11/2011 10:44 pm
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Seems to keep me out of bother quite well.
Well, yes. But I like a little mystery in my marriage,

So do I, thats why I let her cook now and again.

Don't hide anything from her, bike stuff or not. She's not interested really as long as I keep paying money into the bank to cover bills/living costs


 
Posted : 27/11/2011 10:50 pm
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I could pull any bike in the world out of the shed & as long as it was white she wouldn't have a clue. 😆


 
Posted : 27/11/2011 10:58 pm
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I bought a Colnago road bike last year without telling the boss, she noticed it after about 3 seconds! They don't miss much. Tried to say it was £500 off eBay which she believed briefly then somehow found out it was really about 15 times that. She was more bothered that I never told her the truth rather than the money spent.


 
Posted : 27/11/2011 11:00 pm
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Is the emasculated males anonymous? Time to grow some.


 
Posted : 27/11/2011 11:04 pm
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Has anyone ever thought that while they're pulling the wool over their partner's eyes, their partner is doing the same to them in this loving relationship that's built on trust?


 
Posted : 27/11/2011 11:06 pm
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I waited until the day after my wife had just had a Caesarean, then accidentally went via the bike shop and bought a new cross bike on my way to Tesco with her list of stuff.


 
Posted : 27/11/2011 11:16 pm
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Tried to say it was £500 off eBay which she believed briefly then somehow found out it was really about 15 times that. She was more bothered that I never told her the truth rather than the money spent.

I'd be more pissed off that you spent £7500 on a Colnago. Presumably money's not really an issue if you're spending that sort of change, so I really don't get why you'd lie!


 
Posted : 27/11/2011 11:16 pm
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I could pull any bike in the world out of the shed & as long as it was white she wouldn't have a clue.

But you are in Essex !


 
Posted : 27/11/2011 11:54 pm
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Mrs Gti would encourage me to buy whatever I want that's bike related, it gives her carte blanche to spend family money on boots and shoes.


 
Posted : 28/11/2011 9:41 am
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My missus bought me a Porsche 993 when i was swithering about it ! That to me was someone who was comfortable with me possibly mentioning that I might want a new bike 😉


 
Posted : 28/11/2011 9:46 am
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I've bought 20 new motorbikes in the past 3.5 years.... my missus has given up caring now 🙂


 
Posted : 28/11/2011 9:52 am
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I get most of my stuff delivered to work then stealth it home to the shed.

In 5 years its only been visited once and that produced an exclamation to do with the tidiness of the shed compared to the house ...


 
Posted : 28/11/2011 9:58 am
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Get rid of the wife.


 
Posted : 28/11/2011 9:59 am
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mrs_oab and I tell each other such buys and share a bank account. It seems to work OK.


 
Posted : 28/11/2011 10:01 am
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I buy bike stuff & the girlfriend buys shoes & bags.

We have a deal that she doesn't ask me how much it cost if i don't ask her how much that new Lulu Guinness bag cost.............how much? You could buy a set of forks for that!!!!!!!!!!

Think were about equal then 🙄


 
Posted : 28/11/2011 10:02 am
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My wife knows exactly how much my next bike costs, she's paying for it.


 
Posted : 28/11/2011 10:08 am
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You should have left a half-used tin of orange emulsion on the side and just pointed to that when she noticed the colour change.


 
Posted : 28/11/2011 10:11 am
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I just bought my wife a Turner Flux. Her bike's worth a lot more than mine


 
Posted : 28/11/2011 10:17 am
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I'm struggling to understand why swapping one bike for another is an issue even if you do have a SO who's bothered about you acquiring more bikes.

this is why all your bikes should be one colour

This is why I got my 2nd unicycle in black - mrs aracer does have an issue with me getting more stuff without getting rid of old stuff. I also had very obvious bright yellow pedals on the old one which I swapped over - I suspect going from a 20" to a 26" wheel might be a bit of a giveaway though. Unicycles are at least easy to hide in a garage which is already full of bikes. Oh, and a complete uni is also cheaper just than the frame on anything you're talking about (though I realised after I bought a complete one that it would have been just as cheap to build one with the custom bits I wanted 🙁 )


 
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Time to call the forth emergancy service
http://www.scillyflowers.co.uk

The Germans have a word for this -

Drachenfutter

[url] http://betterthanenglish.com/drachenfutter-german/ [/url]

😀


 
Posted : 28/11/2011 10:24 am
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MRsBouy has a mighty fine attention to detail eye like you wouldn't believe. I bought a scarf and a matching black flat cap (to wear backwards BTW) the other day and she pulled me up on it saying "that cap has an interesting detail on it, not like your other ones" I didn't even notice the detail.. So things like this I learned early on, don't ever hide anything.

Honesty is most definetly the best policy, never hide, be open and honest, if shes doesn't like it, tough.


 
Posted : 28/11/2011 10:25 am
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I thought this was going to be a follow on thread to the one that got deleted Saturday morning. It had potential to be epic but I guess it was sailing pretty close to the wind


 
Posted : 28/11/2011 10:26 am
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I say 'I'm just popping out love'

- Where are you going

'Out' wont be long.

Now she either thinks I have a mistress, going kerbcrawling or

Buying something from a bloke in a carpark again....

:mrgreen:


 
Posted : 28/11/2011 10:28 am
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[i]I thought this was going to be a follow on thread to the one that got deleted Saturday morning[/i]

Ah, [i]that[/i] thread which took place while we were OUT RIDING? How gutted to have missed that 😐

When I replaced my blue Merlin cheapie for a blue Cove Handjob, it slipped silently under the radar... or so I'm led to believe...


 
Posted : 28/11/2011 10:32 am
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Is the emasculated males anonymous? Time to grow some.

+1

MTFU

If she dumps you over a bike purchase she ain't worth having...so move on.


 
Posted : 28/11/2011 10:56 am
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It's easier to apologise after than ask permission, right?

I've got no spare cash any way 🙁


 
Posted : 28/11/2011 11:06 am
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If she dumps you over a bike purchase she ain't worth having...so move on.

Dumped/not dumped aren't the only possible states for a relationship. I'd suggest most of those at all bothered about this have moved well past that stage of a relationship (and most people making comments like yours have never had a relationship which has moved past that stage).


 
Posted : 28/11/2011 11:16 am
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[i]Dumped/not dumped aren't the only possible states for a relationship.[/i]

Good point!


 
Posted : 28/11/2011 11:24 am
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Go through her wardrobe and add up the cost of all the clothes she has never worn then never worry again.
While you are at it tot up how much all those funny creams cost.£80 doesn't get much Clarins.


 
Posted : 28/11/2011 11:29 am
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My missus noticed the difference when I swapped my medium gritstone BFe for a small gritstone BFe!

She can notice an inch difference here and there 😛


 
Posted : 28/11/2011 11:45 am
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I think they know as soon as you hit the pay now button.


 
Posted : 28/11/2011 11:47 am
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I think they know as soon as you hit the pay now button.


 
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