Exclamation Points Equal Red Bottom

TTWD is a two-sided coin, what I mean is it is customizable which is great but the other side is trying to find out what works for us.  Now, I could call him Sir all day long and it wouldn’t make a hill of beans to him I could forget to wash his undies or socks and his arm would not start twitching; however, I found out Monday, hanging up on him followed by a sarcastic text with lots of exclamation points can really get his arm swinging. 

Here’s a little background, usually when my husband is working and in the middle of something he doesn’t answer his phone.  So when I called to ask about his schedule for the evening so that I could make plans about the kids extra-curricular activities- I didn’t know he was in the middle of something, he never said “hey, I’m busy” or “I’m moving something heavy or holding something heavy.”  Sheesh set it down already!  So I went on with my discussion and when he got a little snippy I hung up on him.  I was furious because the call was actually to let him know that I had things under control and I had worked out a plan so he wouldn’t have to come home early…ain’t I an angel?  After hanging up on him I sent him a “sweet” text about my plan and included lots of caps and exclamation points.  Now before we started ttwd, if I would have hung up the phone on him he wouldn’t have called back or said anything later either he would have ignored it, been indifferent.  I hate indifference!!!  Not Monday, he called me back about 15 minutes later and said,  I was not trying to be mean, I was actually stuck under a house and I only had one free hand at the time.  (The other was holding something heavy).  He wanted to answer the phone because he wanted to make sure it wasn’t an emergency.  (Very new, not his normal style). Anyone got a rock i can crawl under? Anyone?

Here he was busy and still took the time to answer his phone, and I attacked him for it.  Even though we both had good reasons for feeling stressed I was the only one that escalated it.  He did apologize for sounding snippy on the phone and said we would talk later.  When we did talk he picked up his phone opened his texts and started counting the exclamation points, out loud.

One

I’m sorry, I didn’t know you were busy.

Two,

Why would you answer your phone, anyway?

Three,

I was trying to make your evening less stressful and you got mad at me

Four,

And on and on…..

When he set the phone down, he told me he almost came home to take care of it immediately.

What????

He explained that I had better be careful next time I want to hang up the phone or send nasty exclamation-filled texts because it only takes him 5 minutes to get to the house and he will gladly take the time, if it happens again. 

He took care of things that night, and my phone is full of sweet texts and the exclamation button is getting a rest, unlike my backside ;)

I hope everyone's week is going well and that all your texts are sweet! (Dang it!  Where did those exclamations come from? Blasted, sneaky suckers!!).