Modern my mom threw out my cards.....

[George K]

You punch me, I punch you(though let it be said I do not, in any instance, hit my wife nor will I).

That's a strange notion. With a woman, if it ever got to the point where you'd have think about hitting her (or she ticked you off that much) - that's when you know that it is best to walk away. Not worth the trouble. Either chill out or confront her in a conversation.

As for throwing away baseball cards, that just seems very immature and insensitive. You might need to get her a shrink.

 

[predatorkj]

predatorkj---and that my man is the "mystery of women" in a nutshell. They do things that are unexplainable. LOL. I agree though. Whats next? I hope you and the wife can work through this. I would sleep with my hand over my twig and giggleberries for the next few nights. Just to make sure she doesn't go Lorena Bobbit on ya and give ya the ole SNIP SNIP. LOL. Good luck buddy.

My problem is that you can even catch them and even get them to admit that what they did was childish and they still don't know why they decided to do what they did. Sometimes I wonder. Women in general are very smart. But sometimes they do some of the dumbest things. My wife surprises me all the time with her intellect and then she will turn around and ask or say something and my only response can be "I hope you are kidding?". Its really weird. I like to observe, see what people are doing and thinking and saying. But women, I just can't figure out. Its really weird. Not in a horrible way all the time. Just in a wtf type of a way.

One thing I can say for the opposite sex, you can't ever feel superior to them. Because just when you do, you get a thump right in the sack that brings you back down. Lets you know just how big you really are. They know how to crush your ass every time and I'll bet its as easy for them as pushing a button on a control pad! :shock: :? ::facepalm::

 

[predatorkj]

You punch me, I punch you(though let it be said I do not, in any instance, hit my wife nor will I).

That's a strange notion. With a woman, if it ever got to the point where you'd have think about hitting her (or she ticked you off that much) - that's when you know that it is best to walk away. Not worth the trouble. Either chill out or confront her in a conversation.

As for throwing away baseball cards, that just seems very immature and insensitive. You might need to get her a shrink.

Eh...that's why I went back and added that line in. I wouldn't punch a woman unless she came at me with a knife and I thought she was really trying to cut me. My point was more geared towards the idea that you respond in kind to people who do something to you. For instance...my neighbor has been popping fireworks like mad.Perhaps he has his calendar mixed up? Not sure. Today, I caught the doofus putting black cats in a sling shot and firing them at my house(just playing around but scaring my wife half to death). Keep in mind this is a 30 year old man. I came out there and asked him what the hell he was doing? He said he was just playing around. No harm no foul. Kinda stupid but whatever. Now, say I wanted to get back at him...maybe I wait until he is under his car working on it and I maybe toss a black cat under his car and watch him bump his head from jumping at the sound? That is my point. Within rights but not overboard.

I guess with me and my neighbor...we play around like that so its not too big of a deal. I would expect if you did something like that to somebody who didn't like you or didn't know you, they would call the police, also responding in kind. In any case...you respond to something. But you couldn't go over there and rightfully shoot the guy for popping fireworks now could you? That in my mind would be what I am talking about when I say going above and beyond responding in kind. Something I don't do.

 

[bojacksoncollector]

My wife knows I've watched waay too many CSI/Detective shows. I've told her that if anybody ever hurt my baby girl (almost 19 now) that, in my book, there's no such thing as a shallow grave. That person's body would never be found. I can't imagine her thinking that any part of my Bo collection would even remotely be considered fair game for ammo in an argument. Your wife needs some serious psychological counseling and anger management classes. Good luck. Any thoughts of retaliation? I'm sure we could give you some ideas if'n ya want... LOL.

predatorkj - great comments.

 

[jrinne]

I can understand why some women act the way they do. This hobby is addicting and sometimes it can get the best of all of us. Im sure a lot of guys out there would rather spend time with there hobby then there significant other. If you have a wife that is complaining about you collection then it probably means you are spending too much money or time with it and not enough time with her. I hate to play devils advocate but make sure you are looking at it from her side. My wife knows that my collection is very important to me but she also knows that she comes first. Plus, I usually make more on cards than I spend.

Joel

 

[premium1981]

I can understand why some women act the way they do. This hobby is addicting and sometimes it can get the best of all of us. Im sure a lot of guys out there would rather spend time with there hobby then there significant other. If you have a wife that is complaining about you collection then it probably means you are spending too much money or time with it and not enough time with her. I hate to play devils advocate but make sure you are looking at it from her side. My wife knows that my collection is very important to me but she also knows that she comes first. Plus, I usually make more on cards than I spend.

Joel

Those were my thoughts as well while reading this thread. I would say that 99% of these problems would be eliminated if people had their priorities straight. Anyone who puts cardboard in front of their families deserves for these kinds of things to happen (not directing this at anyone, just in general). You may not be doing it on purpose, or you may not even realize that its happening. But there is a reason that this kind of stuff happens. Its not just because "woman are evil". To the guys who have had this, or something simliar, happen to them......Think back at all of the hours that you spend buying cards, sellings cards, trading cards, opening cards, sorting cards, shipping cards, etc. Add up all of that time in your head. Now add up the time that you have spent taking your wife out to the movies, dinner, bowling, etc. I would dare to say that the "card hours" would outweight the "wife hours". Just something to think about.

 

[blanning71]

I can understand why some women act the way they do. This hobby is addicting and sometimes it can get the best of all of us. Im sure a lot of guys out there would rather spend time with there hobby then there significant other. If you have a wife that is complaining about you collection then it probably means you are spending too much money or time with it and not enough time with her. I hate to play devils advocate but make sure you are looking at it from her side. My wife knows that my collection is very important to me but she also knows that she comes first. Plus, I usually make more on cards than I spend.

Joel

Those were my thoughts as well while reading this thread. I would say that 99% of these problems would be eliminated if people had their priorities straight. Anyone who puts cardboard in front of their families deserves for these kinds of things to happen (not directing this at anyone, just in general). You may not be doing it on purpose, or you may not even realize that its happening. But there is a reason that this kind of stuff happens. Its not just because "woman are evil". To the guys who have had this, or something simliar, happen to them......Think back at all of the hours that you spend buying cards, sellings cards, trading cards, opening cards, sorting cards, shipping cards, etc. Add up all of that time in your head. Now add up the time that you have spent taking your wife out to the movies, dinner, bowling, etc. I would dare to say that the "card hours" would outweight the "wife hours". Just something to think about.

While I agree with 98% of your statement, I can't say that it applies to me. I spend and have spent waaaay more time with my wife in the past than with my cardboard beauties. Trust me. I have hashed that out and we have discussed that at length. Hell, I think I spend more time with my wife at the store in the pocket book and shoe section than I have in the past 10 years on the hobby I love. And she enjoys spending time with me and the hobby too. She even went with me yesterday to the show.

I think when my wife tossed my stuff out, she was possessed. Yeah that kind of possessed like Emily Rose or Reagan from the Exorcist possessed. Evilness eminated from her that day. I just hope its out of her system and doesn't ever come back.

 

[premium1981]

While I agree with 98% of your statement, I can't say that it applies to me. I spend and have spent waaaay more time with my wife in the past than with my cardboard beauties. Trust me. I have hashed that out and we have discussed that at length. Hell, I think I spend more time with my wife at the store in the pocket book and shoe section than I have in the past 10 years on the hobby I love. And she enjoys spending time with me and the hobby too. She even went with me yesterday to the show.

I think when my wife tossed my stuff out, she was possessed. Yeah that kind of possessed like Emily Rose or Reagan from the Exorcist possessed. Evilness eminated from her that day. I just hope its out of her system and doesn't ever come back.

I see.....

But there still had to be a reason she went after your cards and not something else.

 

[blanning71]

While I agree with 98% of your statement, I can't say that it applies to me. I spend and have spent waaaay more time with my wife in the past than with my cardboard beauties. Trust me. I have hashed that out and we have discussed that at length. Hell, I think I spend more time with my wife at the store in the pocket book and shoe section than I have in the past 10 years on the hobby I love. And she enjoys spending time with me and the hobby too. She even went with me yesterday to the show.

I think when my wife tossed my stuff out, she was possessed. Yeah that kind of possessed like Emily Rose or Reagan from the Exorcist possessed. Evilness eminated from her that day. I just hope its out of her system and doesn't ever come back.

I see.....

But there still had to be a reason she went after your cards and not something else.

They were there, she is vindictive like her mother, she knows I like that stuff, and she liked to get under my skin by taking jabs at me. Very much like a sibling rivalry is the best way I can equate it. She still doesn't know why she did it.

 

[cmixer]

i had a framed piece of original Comic book art (the hand-drawn art photocopied to make comic books) - when my wife got mad she took a power drill to & through it - LOL.

 

[lordsepic]

Learn from your mistake... it is your man's den... You left it unprotected. next time you have a fight...put her on the porch and watch some tv.

 

[RL24]

My wife and i were just talking. She said " we dont have any money" and i said "i havent been spending it" she then pointed to a shoe box of cards and said "what are those". I said "thats my aybar collection, there are over 100 cards and they all together cost less than a purse" She said "then why do you collect him" and i said "im not sure".

ture story

the moral of this story is, get those cards back at all costs. That was a bush move on her part.

:lol:

As a Jason Jennings collector, I love and appreciate your story. My g/f and I have had the same exact talk! I was showing her some droolworthy cards of JJ, and she said I should sell those bad boys for some diaper money. I said, unless Jason Jennings is looking to pick up a collection of his own cards, I think I'm screwed. Unfortunately, it's way more than 100 cards though.

 

[jswaykos]

My wife and I each have our own spending allowance which we can use for whatever we want with no questions asked. As long as baseball card purchases come out of this money, she couldn't care less. She knows what they mean to me, as do I with stuff she gathers. I've also mentioned many times that should hard times truly hit, I'd sell my cards, because really it's all just card board.

 

[HPC]

She wouldnt be my wife for much longer...

If you leave after an arguement and she throws away your prized and sentimental possesions, that shows there is some unstability on her side.

 

[subpop77]

Learn from your mistake... it is your man's den... You left it unprotected. next time you have a fight...put her on the porch and watch some tv.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Sean_C]

Anyone else having a hard time believing this story? Granted there is very little that Brian Crotts ever says that I believe due to past experiences, but it seems odd that she'd give away only the cards in his signature. Plus, if she were really that mad, why not destroy the cards instead of just giving them away? If my GF were mad enough at me to go after my cards, she wouldn't go giving them away, she'd either cut up, torch, or douse them.

 

[G $MONEY$]

If you leave after an arguement and she throws away your prized and sentimental possesions, that shows there is some unstability on her side.

THIS^^^^^

 

[Mozzie22]

Wow! I don't condone violence to women but my wife has never thrown away my best cards either... if she did I might have to put the pimp hand on.

 

[Sean_C]

Even if this actually happened, which as mentioned before I doubt, there is never a time or a place for violence towards women.

 

[andyduke86]

I hope you either get the cards back from the kid or dispose of something equally valuable that belongs to your wife. Possibly, both.