So I just had to share this story with everyone because I could not stop laughing at how some peoples perception of things is just so WAY off, you have to laugh.
My dad called me one saturday morning a couple of weeks ago because he found a kick-butt swing set/fort/slide thingy at a garage sale. Our son is three, new baby will be here in November, so we'd get lots of use out of it. Dad warned me beforehand that is was big, probably 16 to 18 feet in total length. I told the wife about it, and immediately she says "it won't fit" and "it'll take up the whole yard". I calmly remind her that our lot is 48' x 165' and we have plenty of room. She insists, that it will indeed be too big.
So I'm starting to get frustrated because these people are moving and just want $200 for the whole thing. I can't buy the lumber to make our own for $200, let alone one already put together with 5 swings, a slide, a rope ladder, and a canopy roof. I want this thing. So I grab my tape measure, grab the wifey and we go out to the backyard. I ask her to show me the area that she thinks this swing set will take up. She marks it out with sticks and I immediately start laughing. She starts to get annoyed with my giggling so I tell her to hold one end of the tape measure.
Now I know everyone is dying to know.....what does my wife perceive 16 feet to be? 48. Forty. Eight. Feet. WOW. Needless to say we went and bought it and it now sits, quite comfortably, in our backyard. All I can hope is that when she is sharing intimate details with her hot girlfiends that this "problem" persists.
Anyone else have funny stories about how things are seen by others in such a bizarre way that all you could do was laugh?