Married my Mom??
When I was a teenager, on a small number of occasions, my washing would be left in my room minus certain garments. After months of hoping they would turn up I finally ask dear old Mom if she has seen it, has it gone into anybody else's pile of laundry? No answer, it is a mystery. Years later she finally admits that the garments in question, usually some scruffy t-shirt I kept because it was really very comfortable, had been thrown away by her. I guess she made an executive decision that it was too scruffy for me to be allowed to keep wearing it. Maybe not the biggest travesty of justice but it did bother me loosing things because Mom didn't like them.

Fast forward a few years, I don't live at home any more, but with my new wife. I don't rely on Mom to do the laundry anymore, in fact, as a modern-ish man I even indulge in doing some of it myself sometimes. But I have started to notice very occasionally, t-shirts going missing. And when I confront wifey, she denies throwing them away. Until a couple of months ago when I see in a shop the exact same t-shirt as I used to have. I was so happy I bought it so I could have another. Wifey cannot hold it in any longer and confesses to having thrown it away because it was.....

Too scruffy. There it is, I am sick, I've married my mother.
(crontle likes boobies, Wed 20 Aug 2008, 16:11, 6 replies)

Grrrr.
If this happened to me I would consider it grounds for divorce. Right up there with reaching over to swipe forkfuls of my dessert, or helping herself to my coffee cup.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 20 Aug 2008, 16:17, closed)

I throw out the odd thing
but only underwear which is too shaming to hang out to dry any more.

Other clothes - he can wear them till they fall off his back, but not underwear.

What if he was in an accident?
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Wed 20 Aug 2008, 16:29, closed)

that would bug the hell out of me
by all means nag me till I get rid of it (this doesn't happen) but to just take it and throw it away?

I'd go beserk
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 20 Aug 2008, 16:32, closed)

Agreed.
Unacceptable conduct.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 20 Aug 2008, 17:07, closed)

This is unacceptable
It is unlikely to happen to me, for my other (I will not say 'better') half is scruffier than I. I even iron things.

Badly.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Wed 20 Aug 2008, 17:20, closed)

The Horror!
Dude,

As soon as you get that ring on her finger she will morph into your mother like the T-1000 from Terminator 2!
(Lip Up Fatty Fatty Reggae still loves BBQ food on, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 11:12, closed)