Danger Danger - Very Important Read If You Are Married

[geof_junk]

My wife said I can swing it longer and heavier than her so have to do the floors so she can get a bit of time in getting her gold.

[Doc]

 

7 hours ago, Digalicious said:

BTW- Be sure to tell your wife that it's not Mr. Metal Detector. It's Mr. Metal Detectorist 🙂

So what should I be called now?  "Mr. Mopperist?" 😁

[Doc]

My wife really isn't the Princess I make her out to be.  I mean she is in my mind.  She's a wonderful woman.  55 years with the ol' gal.

However, every time I want to take her on one of my adventures circumstances are such that things go wrong and she never wants to do it again.

I take her on a 3 day live aboard SCUBA Diving trip.  She doesn't dive but I do.  But I thought it would really be relaxing for her.  Really great meals every day.  Beautiful Ocean whale watching.  She was sea sick for three days puking her guts out.  And that was with a Scopolamine patch on.  I've never seen anyone get sick with a patch!

Then I get the toy hauler.  I tell her lets take the dogs and drive North of San Franciso up through the redwood forest and we will camp at this really neat place right by the ocean.  We will eat at great sea food restaurants.  We will have a blast.  So she loves the scenery, and enjoyed the drive.  We get to the campgrounds and the regulators on the propane don't work.  We can't run the generator, we can't lite the stove top, or the oven.  We can't keep the toy hauler warm.  It was freaking freezing being on the ocean with that wind blowing in off the ocean.  We couldn't take a shower because we had no warm water because of no propane.  That was the last time she went with me anywhere in the toy hauler.

This was the first time after buying the toy hauler that I had taken it anywhere.  Well people in the know said, "ARE YOU NUTS?"  You never take a long trip in a new trailer!  You have to do a break-in trip.  Got to a campground in your own town, hook up and make sure everything is working properly.  New trailers always have some bugs that need to be worked out.

WHOOPS.

Then there was the time when our daughter was a about 5 months old and I thought it would be fun to rent a motor home take our two older sons and go on a family vacation to California, Disney Land, Knotts Berry Farm, San Diego Sea World.  The whole 9 yards.  This was the motor home from hell!  It's a long story, but just an idea of how things went.  80 miles outside of Las Vegas the door fell off the refrigerator.  That was just the beginning.

We get to a beautiful campground in Newport Beach.  Some how on the trip over to California, by wife and my sons all thought it would be amazing to use the bathroom facilities while going 70 mph.  Because isn't that on your bucket list?  Taking a dump while going 70 mph?  I get to the campground and it stinks so bad in the motor home I figure I need to dump the tank and add chemicals.  They gave me 30 seconds of instruction from the place I rented this nightmare of a motor home.  So I get the DOOKIE tube out and put it in the sewer and open the gate valve and the hose like turned over on itself and got a kink.  The hose was really old.  So I try to lift it to un-kink it and the DOOKIE tube splits in half and dumps DOOKIE all down the front of me from my knees into my shoes.

And that was just the start.  The compressor on the air conditioner blew up and blew the grill off the front of the motor home.  Propane was leaking.  I'm at a repair place in San Diego parked in the lot trying to see if I can get the leaky propane fixed, and another motor home backs into our motor home going 20 miles an hour and caves in the whole side of the motor home.

Bottom line is, this motor home was so bad the rental company gave us a complete refund and made us sign a waiver that we wouldn't sue them.  The details of this trip would have rivaled any Chevy Chase family vacation movie.

Doc

[HardPack]

9 hours ago, Doc said:

THIS THING" is really killing my back

Give the “Qweegle” a try, it”ll save your back. Any finds?😁

[klunker]

 I believe Nugget Finder makes an aftermarket coil for that dust mop that is specifically for fine dust. You'll have to ask your wife how to adjust your sensitivity settings.

[flakmagnet]

We live up high on a hillside in a canyon town in So. Cal. My wife has cultivated unbelievable gardens; we live in beauty. I got to terrace the hillsides on our property when I was younger, but that had to stop - yup back problems. But now, years later, I still go out and detect with my 7000, I've strengthened my back and know what not to do.
But I always wear a back brace when I sweep, rake or mop. 

Eight years ago, my wife came with me for two nights camping up in the Mother Lode in breathtakingly beautiful country. As we were leaving I heard her say to herself "okay I've done that."
Now, I often say her idea of being in the great outdoors is cracking the window open in our hotel room.

Funny thread Doc.

 

 

[Fredneck]

Nothing in the detectors manual about that !! I've always said, detector companies should have a final chapter or additions to trouble shooting charts  😆

[palzynski]

Looking forward to the detailed field testing report ... And a comparison test with other brands  ...  🙂

[Doc]

2 hours ago, klunker said:

 I believe Nugget Finder makes an aftermarket coil for that dust mop that is specifically for fine dust. You'll have to ask your wife how to adjust your sensitivity settings.

Is it a mono or DD.  Better yet I need an ANTI-INTERFERENCE because it's bad enough that she made me mop she had to keep telling me how to do it, and that I was doing it all wrong.  Apparently, you have to put the mop in the bucket and get it wet before you start swinging it on the floor.  "Who knew?"

Doc

[Doc]

8 hours ago, HardPack said:

Give the “Qweegle” a try, it”ll save your back. Any finds?😁

My wife is such an amazing woman.  Before we got married she told me.  I will work and help put you through college because I have no desire to go to college.  Then I want to be a stay at home mom and be a professional house-wife.

Well she has fulfilled that promise and then some.  I live in an immaculate home.  She is a mind boggling cook and a baker, and she loves going around the yard tending to the plants.  Then she gets a bag and one of those grabber tools and walks the neighborhood picking up whatever debris has blown in.  She is a bit on the OCD side when it comes to cleanliness.

She actually loves the outdoors.  She was from a small farming community called Morton Illinois.  I always say I married a "farm girl."  She says I did not live on a farm!  I say, OK, then tell me what you did for a job for three summers when you were a teenager.  (She worked detasseling corn!)  I tell her only a farm girl would detassel corn

We have three children and she gave birth to all of them naturally.  Absolutely no drugs, she just did Lamaz.  She is loving and family means everything to her.  But she is tough as nails.  Especially when you consider our second son weighed 9 lbs 13 ounces.  The doctor was begging her to let him give her an epidural.  She said no way, and if you say it again I will fire you.  I said to the nurse, "She can't fire her OB right in the middle of giving birth can she?"  The nurse said, "I have a feeling that your wife could do just about anything she puts her mind to."

Doc