Originally Posted by lazypucker
I had a few dumb moments:
(1) I was doing a slow stew on the stove, and then my wife called me to go pick her up from work and then go grocery shopping. I left home and forgot to turn the stove off. We didn't know about it until 3 hours later when we returned home. Luckily our house didn't burn down!! Needless to say, I got chewed out by my wife.
(2) We have a fridge with a bottom freezer, and one time the door wasn't closed properly. So the food was defrosting and the next morning I noticed a huge puddle of water on the floor around the fridge. I was so afraid that we had a pipe burst (because it was like -30 for a week outside) luckily it wasn't. Again I got chewed out by my wife...
(3) We were driving to BC for a week one time, and because there would not be anyone home, in addition to the PIN code lock we use everyday, I decided to lock the door handle as well (the type you can twist the knob and lock it from inside). After a fantastic trip we were back home close to midnight on a Sunday, and lo and behold, I forgot to bring the keys for the locked door handle that we never lock nomrally. So I had to call a locksmith in the middle of the night to drill through the locked handle. And that took a couple of hours. Needless to say, I got chewed out again by my wife....
Now a story from many years ago when I was around 13 years old. We came to Canada for a couple of years and we were having our first family road-trip - driving to BC again. My father was driving for 5-6 hours since the morning until we had to stop for gas at like Revelstoke, he suddenly realized that he forgot his wallet at home!! He had no money and more importantly no driver license!! There is no way to turn the car back to Calgary, and my mom being a new driver at the time didn't want to drive in unknown places. So my father drove for the entire week-long trip without a license!! Fortunately the trip had gone without any problem, but we were pretty nervous the whole time with my dad driving without a license for the whole week! But needless to say, my dad got chewed out by his wife!!
One more story - not my own experience, and I think I talked about it here on CP. Anyways, when you get your Permanent Residency (PR) in Canada, you have to leave the country and re-enter Canada, and a popular route for PRs in Calgary is to drive to the Montana border and come back. One guy decided to do that, and took his girlfriend along to make it a weekend trip to Waterton Park. When they arrived at the border, everything went well, except the officer noticed that the guy's driver license had expired, and the officer didn't allow him to drive (the girlfriend did not have a license). So the guy had to leave the car at border patrol, called a friend to come all the way from Calgary to pick them up. And the guy had to renew his license on Monday and had the friend drive him back to the border to pick his car up. Needless to say the whole weekend was ruined, and of course the guy got chewed out by his girlfriend!!
So the moral of everything is - don't f-up, or you will be chewed out by your wife!!!
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