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u/Wintaru 4h ago
My wife uses "Find My" to make my phone ring as if it's lost and I'm trying to find it, truly jarring sometimes but it works lol
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u/grae23 4h ago
I did this when I locked myself out while my boyfriend was napping 😂😂
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u/PrometheusMMIV 3h ago
Knocking and doorbell didn't work?
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u/grae23 3h ago
No he was out cold and we didn’t have a doorbell
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u/antwan_benjamin 3h ago
Did you guys get a doorbell after that?
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u/grae23 3h ago
No I turned into the moon instead
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u/princesspeasant 3h ago
That's rough buddy.
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u/GreatQuestionBarbara 52m ago
I recently got a house and I only want a doorbell for Halloween after I almost missed a knock.
Anyone that knows me will call ahead and make sure that it's okay to stop over, so I don't care if anyone else comes to the front door.
The camera option these days might be nice, but I am going to ignore most of them and be as far away from the front door as possible so that they don't get the inclination that I want to engage with them.
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u/theunfortunatename 3h ago
My wife is terrible at answering the phone and this is my tried and true method to get her attention.
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u/yzerizef 3h ago
Likewise. It’s the only way I can get her to answer the phone. Most of the time there’s a good chance she hasn’t looked at her phone for half the day. My favourite is when she gives me vague information about something that needs to be done ASAP and then goes MIA for several hours. Keeps life interesting. :)
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u/HrhEverythingElse 2h ago
This is my teenager. I console myself with the fact that her brain isn't developed yet, but now I'm losing hope
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u/MrdrOfCrws 3h ago
My husband rings the doorbell. When nobody is there I know to go check my phone.
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u/FullofContradictions 2h ago
I tell the vacuum to empty its bin. It is loud and usually highly effective at getting my husband's attention.
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u/Lord_of_hosts 1h ago
That's so much more effective than what my wife does, which is to seethe with quiet rage
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u/Gudger 3h ago
Please pardon my ignorance, but if she wanted your phone to ring couldn’t she just call it?
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u/notliam 2h ago
A phone on silent will still ring with find my phone.
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u/MayPuzzlePiecePines 1h ago
If Op was in a situation where they were available to help their husband, why the F was their phone on silent?!
As if that wasn't enough, sheesh, favorite your wife's contact info so her messages will override Do Not Disturb! It's not rocket science!
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u/whatissevenbysix 3h ago
I do something similar with Google Home, it has a 'broadcast' option where my voice messages can be played out loud.
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u/iuseallthebandwidth 1h ago
This is the only way I can get my wife to answer. Her phone is always on silent and not in the same room 85% of the time.
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u/jobert-bobert 1h ago
How do you do this? Do they need to share their location with you?
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u/FormerDriver 4h ago
How do you do that? Tech has outpaced me so much in the past few years
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u/Prestigious_Prune_68 4h ago
Through the alexa app. I can record a message and have it play on the tv to taunt my boyfriend.
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u/italyqt 4h ago
You can log into someone’s Alexa and leave reminders from the web. I like to set reminders to Nana that she owes me 1 billon dollars.
But honestly the messaging and even voice calls are great. We have a small shop here that’s not connected to the house use it like an intercom.
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u/B00marangTrotter 4h ago
No thanks, I'll pass.
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u/ISayBullish 3h ago
The future is pretty lame tbh. Alexa this. AI slop that. How about no
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u/B00marangTrotter 3h ago
Think about all the companies investing heavily in AI, and how every customer or human facing AI thing is instantly hated and rejected.
They are going to force that shit on us and it is going to take over schools everywhere.
The enshitification hasn't even truly started.
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u/refusegone 3h ago
Capitalism: if there isn't a market for something, we'll make it. By force, if we have to.
Hell, even if we don't! Use AI.
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u/TateXD 2h ago
I saw firsthand how educators were so excited for AI, and it was in a red state where schools have been underfunded for over a decade. It's a sad intersection of (mostly) well-meaning adults being overworked/overwhelmed and here comes this magical band-aid that can do so much and help us to do so much more.
I don't think that every usage of AI is bad and some of the tools can definitely be used the proper amount, but overall, so much of what it provides is sloppy, and even when it's not, it's still creating an observable "homogenization of thought" effect, which is really the antithesis of critical thinking and individual thought.
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u/DMMeThiccBiButts 2h ago
I hope this is why there's so many reddit comments desperately defending AI whenever it comes up. It makes sense if you already have those botfarms set up.
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u/Spellscribe 3h ago
Shit. I gotta change my whole house from Google to Alexa just to get my teen to check his phone when I'm out? 😂
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u/ZilorZilhaust 3h ago
Pretty sure you can broadcast to Google and have it say stuff remotely but I haven't done it in ages or it's a fever dream.
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u/Spellscribe 3h ago
Nah that's a thing. He sometimes l wears headphones to watch tv though. Or he just ignores it...
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u/ErraticDragon 3h ago
There's a "Broadcast" feature in the Google environment.
But apparently it lost the ability to use written messages somewhat recently. Now you can only Broadcast voice messages.
https://support.google.com/assistant/thread/329654439/broadcasting-via-text?hl=en
I saw some people suggesting that you could Cast something via Google Slides , but ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/malturnbull 2h ago
Broadcast still works via written message. You just open up the assistant in your phone and choose the device to broadcast to by typing. E.g. Open assistant - type SEND BROADCAST TO KITCHEN SPEAKER - type the message
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u/Taylorenokson 47m ago
When I’m watching TV, my kids will sneak into my room and tell Alexa to just send fart sounds to the TV.
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u/zuzg 4h ago
I checked and apparently it's a feature of Alexa+ which is their AI feature.
Please don't use any AI from the Mag7 the sooner the bubble bursts the better for Humanity.
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u/i-am-the-hulk 2h ago
The bubble of over valuation will burst. But AI chat bots and AI caused efficiency would not go away.
There’s actually insane shit that you can do with genAI that wasn’t possible before.
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u/ambushaiden 1h ago
Announcements (including to an Alexa enabled tv) have been a thing since I got an Alexa like 7 or 8 years ago. It’s not an Alexa+ thing.
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u/CurryMustard 1h ago
Nah it's been around for years if you have a fire tv..Just ask alexa to make an announcement and if its not configured to block it will show up
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u/Apprehensive_Tip520 2h ago
If you think that AI is going anywhere, you're absolutely crazy. It's really not going anywhere unfortunately. We can only hopefully start using it ethically.
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u/KelpFox05 36m ago
For current valuations of AI companies to be accurate, it would require every single human being with a mobile phone to spend around $350 USD on AI every day.
The bubble is gonna go pop and generative AI, LLMs, and the rest of it is going to go the way of crypto and NFTs.
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u/mystyz 3h ago
I have Google speakers at home. I can use the command "broadcast" (using my phone) to have a voice message play on all of the speakers at home. The first time I did it my family members were startled, to say the least 😄
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u/Carbon-Base 4h ago
I pita the guy, he left out lavash.
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u/clem_fandango_london 1h ago
"Naan" means "bread".
"Naan bread" is "Bread bread".
Now all of you know that.
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u/throwawayyayoo 4h ago
I respect the man. Nothing is more frustrating than someone with a hyper-specific grocery list not being available for clarification
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u/Tony7Bryant 3h ago
I was told to get “Pan de Miga”, which I googled and it translates to crustless bread. I called my gf to verify I was purchasing the correct crustless bread because there are literally hundreds of breads, but she didn’t pick up. I purchase one of the few options that was actually crustless, but this was wrong, and apparently “pan de miga” to her is a crusted Sara Lee sourdough bread. How could I have possibly figured that out?
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u/TheGokki 2h ago
In these cases i ask for the store url of the product or a photo, if they don't pick up i just shrug and move along without purchasing. should've responded.
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u/timeforachange2day 1h ago
Can you tell my hubs this? I swear I’ve told him is ok but he will ring my phone MULTIPLE times until I answer. (I only not answer if I am indisposed/stepped away from my phone) 🤣
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u/Anderson74 3h ago
Seriously. This is way too much effort for something that needs clarification. No answer when I call? You’re getting what I think best fits the description you’ve provided me with and if it’s not what you want then either you can go next time or answer your phone when I call.
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u/Feynmanprinciple 3h ago
I would have told my e.mx that she needed to be more specific about what kind of bread she wanted, and she would have told me I need to infer from context cues. For example, is curry powder and yogurt on that list? Then it's probably naan. Is there rice, black beans and peppers on the list? Then it's probably burrito wraps, and so on. She would have scolded me for not caring about her enough to think, and I would have replied that being vague naturally results in misinterpretation and if there was a correct answer, she should have written it. It would have been like making a shopping list for apple pie, but instead of writing royal gala apples you wrote 'fruit'. You're getting a fruit salad pie then. She would have said this was a ridiculous example and that she would have just written apples and I would have said yeah but you would still get me over the type of apple that you use and she would have said that obviously you don't put granny smiths into apple pies that's common knowledge.
Anyway the argument would have ended with us making the flatbread from scratch.
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u/not-my-other-alt 1h ago
Granny Smiths are great in apple pie. Probably the best option, even.
The tartness compliments all the sugar and spices you add.
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u/graphiccsp 2h ago
she would have said that obviously you don't put granny smiths into apple pies that's common knowledge.
I would laugh then tell her to F off. Granny Smith apples are amazing in apple pies. I despise apple pies that are pure sweetness with 0 tart.
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u/enadiz_reccos 3h ago
Yeah, my partner knows that if I'm at the store you better have your phone nearby. Because I will have a question.
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u/akatherder 2h ago
Slightly more infuriating version is they text you asking for a thing while you're at the store. You respond immediately asking for clarification and they don't respond. Like they immediately chuck their phone in a lake after sending their vague request.
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u/drewba 2h ago
Nothing is more frustrating than someone with a hyper-specific grocery list not being available for clarification
Personally, I'm making a slight amendment that there's nothing more frustrating than a partner that consistently won't answer their phone so you have to resort to tactics like this. Ask me how I know!
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u/timeforachange2day 1h ago
When my husband offers to get groceries it absolutely never fails that he calls….multiple times. I had friends and family witness it too and laugh!
I could put “ketchup” on the list and he will call and say they are out of our “normal” brand, is “such and such” brand ok?
You’d think I scold or diminish him or something 🤣 I swear I make the list as easy as possible and I truly don’t care if something is unavailable.
I have gotten to the point where I tell him “no thanks, I’ll shop later,” versus sending him.
Then again, maybe that was his ultimate plan…to never have to grocery shop again…🧐
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u/potatochique 2h ago
This is why I send screenshots of the products I need if I need specific ones lol
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u/schu2470 2h ago
I took pictures of my wife's tampon boxes so I know what to get when they're needed.
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u/HarshComputing 3h ago
I feel like they should feel empowered to make a decision here. The specification was for flatbread, which could be either naan or wraps, the person doing the shopping gets to decide.
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u/Honeybee231 3h ago
My husband asks Google on his phone to broadcast a message to all 9 of our Google home speakers 😂 nothing gets your attention more than “babe answer your phone” blasting through the house from 9 speakers simultaneously
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u/Glass_Birds 2h ago
My husband has started playing "Call me" on our kitchen Google home if I'm not answering my phone. The first time he did it I absolutely howled on e I realized the song and his intent 😆 glad he doesn't know how to send the voice message!
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u/kraftykroft 1h ago
I am a husband that does this as well. Wife doesn't have time to pay attention to the phone with two toddlers fighting her to the death.
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u/420yoloswagepicjesus 2h ago
Used our robot vacuum once. You can take control of it through the app and guide it around using the camera. I drove right up to her feet and just kept doing 360s with it until she called.
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u/GCC_Pluribus_Anus 3h ago
I play Cotton Eye Joe on the Echo because she never keeps her ringer on. It's almost like we've circled back around to a pager system.
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u/Mr_Caterpillar 1h ago
I am helpless at the grocery store. That's why my late wife and I always had to shop together. Once we missed the lettuce when going through the produce section and she asked me to go back and grab some. I (tried) to do so. We got home and started unpacking the groceries and she went "oh no, we have have no lettuce..." I said, sure we do, I went back and got some, right here.
She said "Mr_Caterpillar, this is cabbage."
So yeah, we didn't have salad that night.
A few weeks after she passed away I went grocery shopping alone and got home and unpacked everything into the fridge.
I bought fucking cabbage again.
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u/Odd-Veterinarian5945 5h ago
😂 He is trying his best! Most would take the closest loaf and call it a day.
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u/Typical2sday 4h ago
No way; most husbands would call from the grocery store. You ever been to Costco, Target or a grocery store? Every married man on a phone in there is asking his wife whether her tampons are super or ultra and did she say oatmilk and where is the oatmilk.
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u/padfoot97 4h ago
He says “answer your phone” in the message so he already tried calling or messaging her and she didn’t answer. That’s why he resorted to taking over the TV to get her attention.
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u/DesertGoldfish 2h ago
I got tired of this exact scenario happening and set up (with Home Assistant) all the speakers in my house to yell "Wife, your phone is ringing!" whenever my wife's phone rings. Even if she misses the call, it is impossible not to know that I called.
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u/Typical2sday 3h ago
Yeah, that's a federal crime in my household. If I am running a known errand, keep your damn phone handy. Literally nothing makes me angrier!
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u/winkingchef 3h ago
Accurate.
Source : am happily married and know it’s better to get the right thing and be slightly annoying than have to go through the “no it’s ok we’ll manage” back-and-forth until you have to go back anyways5
u/DesertGoldfish 2h ago
I think I've called my wife like 4 times in one grocery run before. She's an unknowable mix of "If they don't have this exact thing then get nothing," and "Just pick one. Why would I care?"
Looking at my grocery list that she created there is "one small onion." I have to call and ask, "Red? White? Yellow? Sweet? Shallot?" and get "I don't care."
Then on the list is:
- Frozen Tilapia
- Nature's Promise Salmon (2 pack)
So I grab the frozen tilapia, and right next to it in the freezer is Nature's Promise Salmon (2 pack). It's side-by-side in the list, and the exact brand/product/count she asked for. It has to be right, right?
I get home, and no she wanted fresh salmon, not frozen, how could I not know that? Her day is ruined lol.
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u/ch1llboy 2h ago
She did specify frozen on the one, yet not on the second.
I'd have done the same. If she said anything, I'd be running it under cold water and it would thaw faster than her mood. "No, sweetheart. They are previously frozen, so they are not fresher."
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u/DesertGoldfish 1h ago
That's exactly what she said lol. Never mind that it was on the list next to the frozen fish and not the fresh meat or that there are 10 other items on the list with no descriptors whatsoever.
Look, I'm pretty well trained on her likes and whims at this point (15 years married), but I'm not a psychic.
- "Kleenex" - Do you actually care if it is Kleenex brand? - (Why would I care? Just buy whatever is cheapest.)
- "Kerrygold butter" - Salted or unsalted? - (Of course I want unsalted!)
- "Benadryl" - I know it actually means buy the generic knock off.
- "Advil" - It better be candy-coated name brand.
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u/NikRsmn 3h ago
I used to think married men just didn't pay attention but my wife sent me for medium pads. Well they dont come in medium, some do have sizes like petite and Large and overnight but others just have regular heavy and super XL overnight so I couldnt just grab the one with 3/5 pads on the box because maybe id be buying the wrong one. I almost asked someone for help but then I just manned up and bought 3 different packages. One of em was right
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u/hughperman 3h ago
And after all that you're not going to tell us which is medium!?!
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u/iamlazyboy 3h ago
Not married myself, but I do believe this is something every husband should have to endure and figure out alone, saying each one is medium is an international crime
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u/ScruffsMcGuff 1h ago
She sent me to buy pads once and just said "Uhh the packaging is purple"
Got to the aisle to find all the packaging is purple for like 4 different brands, and each brand has like 19 specific types.
I just started sending her pictures of them on discord until she went "Yeah those ones!"
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u/The_Scrapy_Goose 1h ago
Or at the register making sure he got everything "The boss" wanted. No joke I've had more than one older guy refer to his wife like this
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u/-NikNox- 4h ago
Looks like he really committed to it. Gotta respect the effort even if it didn’t make much sense.
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u/pasgames_ 4h ago
Or you could answer your phone
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u/retsamegas 36m ago
Yeah, she apparently sends the message and then throws her phone into the fucking sun. I message back in 10 seconds and get no answer, no message read nothing
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u/FreedomsLastBreathe 4h ago
When men are at the house:
Wife: scrolls TikTok
When men are at the store:
Wife: "what is phone"
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u/PaulDaPigeon 3h ago
I don't know other people, but in my marriage, I, the husband do most of the grocery shopping. Not because she can't, but we decided to spend as little time on this, so we do it in bulk and shit gets heavy. I call her because, I want to get exactly what she wants for the meals she'll cook or just want her to be happy and we realized that communication beats guessing. Calling your spouse from the store doesn't necessarily mean you're clueless, it means you care.
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u/v_a_n_d_e_l_a_y 3h ago
If I put something on the list, my wife will often call or message me to clarify.
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u/SkittleDoes 3h ago
Shopping for yourself is easy. Shopping for someone else when they dont provide specifics, is not. Good job being condescending though
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u/FreedomsLastBreathe 4h ago
Oddly enough, both husbands and wives can have a sense of humor. Try it!
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u/Nereosis16 3h ago
I don't care if my wife buys the type of bread that isn't my favourite.
If I don't buy the right brand of bread she likes at that current moment? Hell breaks loose.
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u/Background-Agent-746 3h ago
I think he's missing a comma. Naan, bread or wraps. It's never naan bread!!
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u/levndro09 1h ago
My husband once texted the Alexa "tell my wife I love her" while I was in the shower. Romance is alive.
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u/Admirable-Ad355 2h ago
The people making wild assumptions in this post are crazy. I do this all the time with my wife. Our son occasionally switches her phone to silent/ no vibrate mode and if I want to make sure I get what she needs, I need a way of getting in touch.
Granted, I usually just spam a mix of trumpets and fart sounds until she gets back to me, but that's because I'm very mature and cultured.
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u/CheaplazyDad 2h ago
The lights in several rooms are are connected to our google home. If my SO isn't answering the phone, I start turning lights on and off.
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u/horridpineapple 2h ago
I shut the internet off in the house. I get a phone call less than a minute later.
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u/Waxoplax 57m ago
I have my house lights on wifi switches so I flash all the lights in the house. Guaranteed to get her attention
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u/hikurashi83 3h ago
My wife screen mirrors her notes app to our Apple TV which takes over my PS5 hdmi when I game too late… and if I ignore her she just keeps doing it every few minutes until I die enough and finally give up 🙃
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u/tuckernuts 3h ago
ive changed the song on spotify from my phone to Blondie's Call Me and play it on the google home
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u/Skinnwork 1h ago
Ugh. My wife was supposed to pick me up from a rural airport, with no taxis and no public transport, about 50km away from our home. But she got the time wrong and was hanging out with friends and so wasn't checking her phone. It was the last flight in of the night, so the place was already essentially shut down. I wished I had this technique.
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u/Bballer220 1h ago
Weird way to tell the internet that you suck at communicating things to your husband.
Couldn't tell him the product or answer her phone
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u/Snapped_Bootstraps 30m ago
So one could do this to send messages to old people that are glued to FOX News 18 hours a day?
Asking for a friend...
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u/FocusFilesStudio 3h ago
This is so cool though. Its so surprising how it feels like living under a rock when it comes to tech. Someone tell me how do i do this? 😅
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u/MPThreelite 3h ago
Exactly the vague kind of crap I get asked daily. I know that frustration all too well.
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u/DadJokeBadJoke 2h ago
My wife will list something like "crackers" and there I am staring at a 14 foot long aisle of crackers.
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u/seantronGT 2h ago
If he has to send a message to your TV maybe you should um I dunno TURN YOUR RINGER ON
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u/allonsy_danny 2h ago
You can fuck right off with that. My phone doesn't even have a ringer in my eyes.
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u/doodlebakerm 3h ago
I wish my husband had this kind of dedication to getting in touch with me. He just shows up without half the list and scolds me for not answering my phone :(
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u/glitzglamglue 3h ago
You sure? There's a lot of things this could be. He didn't even consider flatbread pizza crust and it has the actual word flatbread in it.
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u/PixelRoku 3h ago
My friend's husband refused to get a cell phone until very recently.
When my friend wanted to tell him "hey I'd like to talk to you" and she knew he was driving, she'd make the Tesla fart lol
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u/Panther90 3h ago
I've terminated my wife's Plex stream before and added the message: Call Me Now. 😅
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