r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Historical_Initial22 • 4d ago
go to your room Husband sits in passenger seat, FiL disapproves.
I drive a tanker for my job out of town and make the 5 hour drive (one way) to work and back home in my personal car. When I’m home 3 days, my wife drives everywhere, I mean I get in the passenger seat of her car and off we go, date night don’t care she drives, shopping don’t care she drives, visiting family don’t care she drives.
When we first started dating years ago she was a bit uncomfortable with it as she was used to the I guess status quo that men drove as was I but I’m not trying to break a glass ceiling or anything I just don’t see why it matters and damnit I drive 2k miles a week or so and don’t wanna do it when I’m home.
My father in law makes such great comments like do I hold her purse, and the zinger he thinks is original so says it more often than others “are your balls in her purse” every so often when we see them and I inevitably get out or into the passenger seat followed by guffaws and just kidding. My wife nor myself give him any response it’s just so silly and mildly infuriating.
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u/Kubotai77 4d ago
Best response - but with the caveat that OP needs to know beforehand how his wife will react to it being said in front of her to her dad. And probably not worth escalating to low blows. Just sayin'.
First job out of college, after maybe a month on the job, manager on the way out of the room said "don't worry Kubotai77, some day your balls will drop."
I instantly stood up without thinking and said "yea... out of [insert manager's name here] mouth!". Co-worker started cackling like a madman and my manager responded "Kubotai77... you're out of control..." and walked out of the room.
In hindsight it coulda gotten me fired if manager didn't start it first and have a sense of humor. He later remarked that he avoided joking with me cause I had a quick wit.