[viking911]

I bought my wife a porta-pottie for our 15th anniversary. Went over like a lead balloon...I need to explain this a little. One day I noticed that my kids were growing up way too fast. I decided to start tent camping again. I spent a lot of time camping when I was a kid and thought it would be a great way to spend quality time with the wife and kids. Kids were all for it but the wife said she wouldn't sleep on the ground. So, I went out and bought a nice padded cot for her but she still refused to go. I just took the kids myself. Had a great time with the kids. I took the kids several times over the summer and I could see that she was feeling left out. I kept asking her again and again why she won't go and she finally told me, it all boiled down to some kind of hang up over bathroom facilities. She won't use an outhouse and she never knew how far a real bathroom would be from camp, expecially for those nature calls in the middle of the night. Since our anniversary was coming up and being armed with this new found knowlege I flexed the supreme powers of my engineering mind came straight to the most obvious and practical solution, she needs a porta-pottie. I thought it would show her that I wanted to include her in the camping and that I wanted to spend time with her. I WAS WRONG.

Ok, you can all STOP LAUGHING now!!.....it is pretty funny.

The best part is that my parents gave her chemicals for the porta-pottie and biodegradable toilet paper. It was like rubbing salt in the wound!!!

How did I recover from such a disaster you ask? I took her to the Bahamas the following summer. Big screw ups = big suck ups. That little...lapse of judgement...delayed my first P-car purchase by over 2 years. But, I'm still happily married and I did finally get my P-car.

My 18th anniversary is next week. Dinner, a movie and a pair of diamond stud earings are going to be the order of the day.

My advice, start by sending her flowers. Then, buy her something nice or better yet take her away for a weekend. Apologize profusely but don't expect her say all is foregiven. You messed up big time (in her eyes) and nothing you do after the fact will make up for it. But, this is what she expects from you now. You'll hear about it every now and then because she doesn't want you to foreget that you hurt her. Basically just man up, take your lumps and let her get over it in her own way. Let her read my story and tell her atleast I'm not as big a jerk as this guy.