Crossing a line?

professorben

Ok so..........
I recently acquired a rather nice TC Flashback X4. 
its quite a lot of money to me for a pedal (despite being s/h and a great price)
the arrangement I struck with Mrs Professorben, was that I could buy the pedal outright, then pay the money back from the sale of my spare pedals, in addition, I would get a few niggling jobs done ( kitchen cabinets, tax return, insurance stuff etc etc)
I got the pedal, stuck it on the board Sat night, tested it, plumbed it all in (sounds epic) 
Spent all day Sunday hanging kitchen cabinets, which look rather spiffing if I do say so myself. 
Spent last night cracking on with Tax return after putting little boy to bed. 
Thought to myself, ah I fancy seeing what the tone print editor is like. 
Pull out my pedalboard, fire up the laptop and spend a moment looking at the TC Flashback X4 shaped hole on my board........
so she's opened up my board, extracted the said pedal and hidden it somewhere around the house, in lieu of the agreed jobs being completed. 
Fair? Unfair?
thoughts? 

Beexter

The devil's in the details.....but ultimately, not on. If "not playing" the new pedal was part of the agreement until the jobs were done,  she should still have asked you to give her the pedal rather than just take it.
Unless you are under 4 years old. 

Jonathanthomas83

Brilliant! Haha.

ICBM

Build your pedalboard better .

Some chancer tried to nick my Fuzz Factory off my pedalboard at a gig once, while I was back at the amp setting it up. He must have got quite a surprise when instead of velcro coming undone, he found himself lifting the entire 40lb+ pedalboard - the crash of it falling back down onto the stage made me spin round, to see him with his hand still above the pedal, looking very guilty and mumbling something about "I just wanted to see what it was"… yeah right.

My pedals are bolted down.

robinbowes

Grow a pair, mate.

professorben

robinbowes said:

Grow a pair, mate.

This..........

professorben

Beexter said:

The devil's in the details.....but ultimately, not on. If "not playing" the new pedal was part of the agreement until the jobs were done,  she should still have asked you to give her the pedal rather than just take it.
Unless you are under 4 years old. 

She maintains that was the agreement, I'm not sure, I thought it was as long as I get stuff ticked off list I was ok to use it. 

octatonic

If she did it as a joke then it is hilarious.
If she is serious then you have a second mum, not a wife.

Sassafras

Hide her shoes.

meltedbuzzbox

Sassafras said:

Hide her shoes.

Shit in her shoes, guerilla warfare 101

UnclePsychosis

octatonic said:

If she did it as a joke then it is hilarious.
If she is serious then you have a second mum, not a wife.

This. I like her style, to be honest

Richardj

I'd be really concerned about the lack of trust in your relationship. Seriously.

professorben

Richardj said:

I'd be really concerned about the lack of trust in your relationship. Seriously.

I regret the gps tracker she made me inject into my neck now. 

I think it's more a dammning indication of my organisation levels. 

professorben

octatonic said:

If she did it as a joke then it is hilarious.
If she is serious then you have a second mum, not a wife.

it does pose uncomfortable questions about some of the role playing we indulge in. 

professorben

meltedbuzzbox said:

Sassafras said:

Hide her shoes.

Shit in her shoes, guerilla warfare 101

Our cat recently died, it used to pee in my work boots....... Oddly it's still happening. 

guitarfishbay

Damn. Tax and insurance need doing so your only real comeback was the kitchen cabinets, but since they're done she's won this one...

professorben

guitarfishbay said:

Damn. Tax and insurance need doing so your only real comeback was the kitchen cabinets, but since they're done she's won this one...

I've been outplayed.......
I sorely underestimated her on this one, I figured I would at least partly enjoy the manly nature of some honest DIY, and thus completed that first, saving the less enjoyable tasks for later, with the 'carrot' of playing my new delay pedal afterwards.
i tried broaching the subject at bedtime last night, but she skilfully cancelled out my attempt at a reproach, by taking her bra off and wandering around the bedroom 'looking' for her nightdress. 

Sassafras

professorben said:

meltedbuzzbox said:

Sassafras said:

Hide her shoes.

Shit in her shoes, guerilla warfare 101

Our cat recently died, it used to pee in my work boots....... Oddly it's still happening. 

Then you have more problems with your wife than her simply hiding your pedals.

joeyowen

Haha! Funny as from an outsider.

However as said prior, if she is serious then it's a bit weird.

If it's good fun, get your own back at christmas.  Wrap a lot of empty boxes but hide the gifts until things get done!

english_bob

If it was me and Mrs_bob, I'd have been pissed off.

If the list of shit jobs you have to do is fixed and finite, I guess she has a point- not so much if she can keep adding jobs to it until she feels like letting you have your pedal. I would have hashed out the fine detail of the deal in the first place so as not to have surprises like this. Personally, I think it's childish and manipulative and I wouldn't want to be with someone who thought that sort of behaviour was OK.

On the other hand, if your partner asks you to do a job and you say you will, you should really do it. If you don't, you put them in an a difficult position- do they nag? sulk? steal your pedals? 

glynes

naughty