I Wonder If Boys...

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ditzyscrap

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Are born so naturally unable to find things. I was just reading the "boys are STOOPID" thread, lmao...but this morning I just wanted to yell at my DS. This is an ongoing thing...

He is 5, btw. He says "Mom, I need...(this morning it was socks)". So I told him to look in the basket of socks in the living room...it's been in there for like 4 weeks, at least. So he goes to the living room and yells to me "I can't find the basket". So I told him exactly where it was...at the end of the couch. He yells back that he *STILL* can't find it. So my 4 year old daughter walks out to the living room and says "HERE...I'll show you where it is" and shows him immediately.

WHY are boys so unable to find things...are they naturally unobservant? I mean, the basket of socks has been sitting there for 4 weeks, lmao...kinda hard to miss!

But it's like this with everything...last night DH asked him to go find a fork, because we needed to wash some for supper. He couldn't find any, but miraculously my daughter, who was also in the living room, found 3. Other days, he's trying to find his pants/shirt/splash pants...can't find them, and they're RIGHT THERE. It's like he doesn't even look.

ARGH! :cursing:
 
I have two sons and a hubby!!! I am convinced they ALL go into a room and star at the ceiling!!! Why else could they not find something and big as a sock bucket!!!!!!!! I agree that they are here to drive us crazy!
 
I do have one son (my oldest) that always seems to know where everything is. He is a real gem and I will cry buckets when he goes off to college in a few years.
 
Well it used to be whenever we coudln't find something we'd just ask our son where it was and he'd go fetch it (meaning..he prolly hid it there lol)

Now..he can't find a thing even when it's on the counter in front of him. Just yesterday I asked him to go grab the diaperbag that was hanging on the chair in the breakfast room...took him 2 trips with which chair, which room, etc before he could even find it..
 
I believe you are right, Bree. I think the extra 'Y' chromosome contains DNA that renders them incapable of physically looking for an object without outside (physical) help. More importantly, I think it also contains some kind of mutated gene that equates 'something is lost' with 'something does not magically appear in my hand when I say its name aloud.'

BF and his son do this all the time. Something is immediately lost/unable to be found, no matter what it is, if it is not in direct eyesight of male who has need of it. I will often immediately walk to a different area of the house to grab it from a 'logical' resting place, i.e. pair of running shorts by (not in) the laundry hamper, grab said item, and hand it off without speaking.

If only we could reproduce as*xually... *lol*
 
I do take some solace from knowing that all men are like this. Or at least 95% of them.

Where is x/y/z???
In the kitchen on the counter above the dishwasher.
WHERE?!?!?!

Come on now, how much more specific can I get?? There's only 1 dishwasher, and it stays in the same place all the time, so it's not like the area above it is different from day to day!
 
OMG!!!! This kind of crap drives me nuts! My 7 year old is HORRIBLE for this. I put his recess money in the same place every day. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY for three years. He says EVERY.SINGLE.MORNING.....where's my recess money? :cursing:
 
we had had incident this morning. I'm inthe kitchen getting breakfat ready. DH is back with the boys getting them dressed and hear him say "Well, I gues you'll just have to wear a pair of your brother's" adn DS1 says "Yeah mommy will have to buy me some more."

They come in the kitchen a few minutes later and I ask DH what they werer talking about. He says "Oh DS1 is out of underpants. There weren't any in his drawer." I say "Did you look in the basket of clean laundry in front of the dresser?" and he looks blankly at me. I say "You know, the big white thing with the clean clothes in it you had to move out of the way to open the underwear drawer?"

I go back and look and sure enough it had been moved out of the way, and had anyone simply glanced in it's direction they would have seen several pairs of underwear sitting there right on top of the pile. But no. The underwear must have all vnaished into the ether and I need to buy more....
 
LeeAndra said:
I believe you are right, Bree. I think the extra 'Y' chromosome contains DNA that renders them incapable of physically looking for an object without outside (physical) help. More importantly, I think it also contains some kind of mutated gene that equates 'something is lost' with 'something does not magically appear in my hand when I say its name aloud.'
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And what is it with finding things in the fridge? My son will say over and over that he can't find it, when I know exactly where it is, so I yell, "I am NOT coming in there just to pull it out when it's right where I'm telling you it is!" And then, sure enough, I finally get up and grab it RIGHT WHERE I SAID IT WAS. And usually right in front.

GAH!
 
LOL, so funny & oh so true! My hubby is really pretty good about this kind of stuff, but oh man.... my brother was awful! My mom would send him down to the cold storage room for ketchup or something. He'd be gone like 5 minutes, and then come empty handed. I would lots of times go down after (dragging him with me) and show him where it was, then leave, lol!!!
 
oh, I'm so glad to learn my son is not the only one. He doesn't even try to look -- just whines about how he can't find it!
 
You know the one that gets me the worst is when they are looking for something in the fridge and because it's behind something and not right there in front they can't find it. GOD FORBID they actually move something! Yep only girl in this household! UGH!
 
Stacey42 said:
They'd know where things were if they put them away in the first place.
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One would think......


I'm still missing a wallet from 2003.


He picked it up - and has no idea where it is or why he didn't stick it back in the bag ... or... yanno WHY he picked it up in the first place!

(this is my DH. my DS wasn't even a glimmer at this point)
 
I am LOVING this thread!!! But have to add that in this family not only are boys/men incapable of finding things .. they are incapable of moving anything .... for example - mom where is the ketchup - its in the frig - no its not mom I'm here and I cant see it - Son are you looking for it - Yes mom I'm telling you there is no Ketchup in our frig - wow thats funny I just bought the MEGA size from costco, let me look - (I move the milk and there is the MEGA ketchup) hmmmmmm
 
ditzyscrap said:
Are born so naturally unable to find things. I was just reading the "boys are STOOPID" thread, lmao...but this morning I just wanted to yell at my DS. This is an ongoing thing...

He is 5, btw. He says "Mom, I need...(this morning it was socks)". So I told him to look in the basket of socks in the living room...it's been in there for like 4 weeks, at least. So he goes to the living room and yells to me "I can't find the basket". So I told him exactly where it was...at the end of the couch. He yells back that he *STILL* can't find it. So my 4 year old daughter walks out to the living room and says "HERE...I'll show you where it is" and shows him immediately.

WHY are boys so unable to find things...are they naturally unobservant? I mean, the basket of socks has been sitting there for 4 weeks, lmao...kinda hard to miss!

But it's like this with everything...last night DH asked him to go find a fork, because we needed to wash some for supper. He couldn't find any, but miraculously my daughter, who was also in the living room, found 3. Other days, he's trying to find his pants/shirt/splash pants...can't find them, and they're RIGHT THERE. It's like he doesn't even look.

ARGH! :cursing:
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I have a 37-year-old boy at home (my DH - lol!) and it doesn't get better with age. He opens the fridge and asks me where the milk is. My response is always the same - "I don't know." You'd think he'd learn to quit asking, but he doesn't.

I actually saw a show on this once. It was about the neurological differences between men and women. Our brains are just different (i.e., better) than theirs. LOL!
 
I wish "I don't know" made mine stop asking me. But alas, instead he erpeats the question until I go to whereever he is and give it to him, because it is inevitably 5" from his face.

And he's 25.

Oy.
 
Earlier today I sent Devin (also 5) into the house to grab some wipes so I could clean his face. I said, "D, they're in the bright purple bag in front of the blue couch." Not two seconds after he walked in the door, he walked out and said, "They're not there, Mommy!"

I walked in, found them precisely where I said they'd be, and cleaned his face. Sigh...

Of course, when I don't want him to know where something is...he knows.
 
It's called the Power of the Womb. Because men do not have this, they are incapable of finding anything. DH calls it my "homing device". But there is also the corresponding principle of the Oldest Womb in the Room. The oldest one (i.e. oldest woman) will find it the fastest. If something is missing, and my mother is at my house, she will find it before I will.

It's a physics thing :D
 
Ok, ladies... I need to teach y'all what I taught my hubby! It is called the "bob & weave". When you are in the fridge for instance, you have to bob and weave your head around. I remind him of this all the time. He will just go in there and stare for like 3-5 minutes and say it is not there BUT when I remind him to bob & weave... VOILA, the mayo suddenly appears. This also works well in the living room, bedroom, bathroom, car... pretty much anyplace!
 
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