[Nathans_Dad]

Man, I swear sometimes women make me friggin nuts!

You may know that I have an 8 month old black lab. Great dog but she will destroy anything left in her path that is not metal or tied down. Over time, our back yard has become "Bella-Proof". So, on Sunday I spend an hour outside, sweeping the deck, cleaning everything, hosing down the deck, etc. The wife calls me today and says she bathed the dog, great.

I come home and notice there is some whitish material all over the deck...hrm. I ask my wife what is all over the deck....

Her: "Oh no, I left the shampoo bottle outside."

Me: (frustrated) "Well, there goes my clean deck."

So she goes out there and hoses the deck back down. Comes back in 10 minutes later and is crying. WTF?!?!? She says she is frustrated because I made her feel stupid. She thinks I should have just known that she already felt stupid for leaving the shampoo in the path of destructo-dog and left it at that.

Are men not allowed to ever react to anything? It seems like we are expected to just take it all in, smile and move on. She is allowed to get frustrated with me when I spend too much time on the computer or forget to bathe the kids yet I can't get frustrated when she lets the dog spew shampoo all over my newly cleaned deck?

Of course it doesn't help that it's that time of the month either...