The nature of my job means that if I'm absent for a day I have two days' work to do when I return
I've been sent home more than once by my boss because I insisted on coming into work despite clearly not being physically well enough to be there.

Alt: My girlfriend and my ex are/were both significantly more intelligent than me so I try to avoid arguments. The problem with taking a woman to task over something she's said when she knows she holds the smart cards is that she'll make it your fault somehow.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 10:13, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

If you argue with a woman over anything at all, she will make it your fault.

(Bazongaloid, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 10:16, Reply)

Agreed
I haven't got Ms Foxtrot to admit to being wrong about anything to do with dancing for over two years. She knows a lot more about it than me, but even when I'm sure I've got a point she can argue me into believing I was wrong.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 10:24, Reply)

Right and wrong rarely enter into it
I've lost count of the times my Mrs Dupinblue has done something wrong that I have got annoyed about and then it ends up being me who has to apologise.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 10:31, Reply)

If it helps you at all
this happens to me, too.
(berk, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 10:39, Reply)

You seem to have some sort of gender role reversal going on with your relationship, I think

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 10:45, Reply)

She'll make it your fault anyway. It's nothing to do with "smart cards" .. it's "being female"
Bonus points, if you actually turn out to be correct, for her using "just because you're cleverer than me you don't have to always try and belittle me"

A shiny fiver to any (male) that knows the correct way out of that sugar-coated minefield.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 10:18, Reply)

Punch her in the gut and say "Listen smart arse, there's more where that came from"
then crack open a beer.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 10:19, Reply)

Will never happen to me, luckily
She's a lot smarter than I am. And she knows not to engage me about football, movies or incredibly trivial knowledge.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 10:26, Reply)

the mere fact that she uses "just because you're cleverer than me" and it works
shows that she is, in fact, cleverer than you.

NEXT
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 10:36, Reply)

It didn't work.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 10:38, Reply)

Although, she probably was.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 10:38, Reply)

it did work because you preened yourself and the argument was over

( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 10:39, Reply)

haha. I should have done, but I didn't.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 16 Nov 2011, 10:40, Reply)