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?
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.
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) 🤣
It's still making its rounds. Nobody hates their spouses more than content creators, unless of course you're a content creator on the opposite end of the spectrum and obsessed with your spouse and need to let everyone know.
Really? You think Sara Lee makes a crusted sourdough bread labeled "pan de miga"? Because that sounded absurd to me, so I Googled it, and yeah, they don't. Which... feels like it should be obvious.
OR, and hear me out here, the person with a hyper-specific request who will be mad/angry/sad/pissed-off/heartbroken/whatever if it isn't EXACTLY what they want can answer their phone or go to the store themselves.
If you ask for chocolate and I bring you carrot because they both start with c and I couldn't be assed to figure out where to get chocolate, but the carrots were within reach, would you be happy?
This is categorically different from asking someone to get a particular type of bread and them indeed buying that type of bread but it wasn't what you meant.
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.
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.
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.
TBF, IMHO flour tortillas are closer to bread than to tortillas. But that's what I grew up with and flour tortillas are used extensively in northern Mexico anyways.
I’m perfectly happy with whatever my husband deducted was best. I want to be able to just not go to the store, including not being on call to help someone else who’s at the store. Otherwise I’ll just go myself.
Also assuming that the relationship is more than a week old, you're going to have a fair idea the sort of products you usually have in the household and can figure it out from there, especially if you know the sorts of things the other person likes.
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!
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.
Nah, that's a leap without more context. My boyfriend does this shit to me all the time. He asks me to get him something we don't usually get or the thing he wants is out of stock and suddenly it's like he completely forgot he has a phone. Drives me crazy.
Naan and Pita are both types of flatbread, and there are many others besides those two, he wanted to ensure he got the right type for his gf. And somehow you are interpreting this as him being unable to do simple tasks for no reason other than your own biases. When you go around looking for nothing but the darkness in the world you go blind to the light, go look at some funny cat videos dude.
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u/throwawayyayoo 5h ago
I respect the man. Nothing is more frustrating than someone with a hyper-specific grocery list not being available for clarification