That's too funny!!
My son recently started to live with me instead of his mom (couple of years now). Anyways, I am always trying to take the opportunity to show him the reasons why I do things a certain way. I showed him how to lay tile, tho it was my 1st time doing so. Tricks with the cars, basic maintenance, parking strategies, looking-out at traffic ahead of us.... so many little things that my dad wasn't around to show me (AKA = School of hard knocks).
Anyways, I am trying to catch him up on years of knowledge that he missed, that will hopefully make him a better "man of the house." To be able to do things for himself and at least research things, before having to depend or count on someone else. He actually comes to me now, when I'm working on stuff and asks questions about it... (not jus when he's brown-nosin' for somethin').
Thing is, my father-in-law always critizes everything we do... spend too much, get this-instead of that, why I don't need an 80 gallon compressor and how his ~20 gallon one has done everything he's needed, how instead of lighter/fun colors in the house-he woulda used more Earthly tones.
You know the kind... I've been there, did it better, and now you need to do it like I say. I hate dealing with it during simple conversations... defending all of my decisions and sometimes explaining that I was merely discussing an already-done thing, not asking for opinions/advice.
I have had to be rude and start off sentences with saying, we could afford it, we wanted it, and we've already paid for it...
My son recently started to live with me instead of his mom (couple of years now). Anyways, I am always trying to take the opportunity to show him the reasons why I do things a certain way. I showed him how to lay tile, tho it was my 1st time doing so. Tricks with the cars, basic maintenance, parking strategies, looking-out at traffic ahead of us.... so many little things that my dad wasn't around to show me (AKA = School of hard knocks).
Anyways, I am trying to catch him up on years of knowledge that he missed, that will hopefully make him a better "man of the house." To be able to do things for himself and at least research things, before having to depend or count on someone else. He actually comes to me now, when I'm working on stuff and asks questions about it... (not jus when he's brown-nosin' for somethin').
Thing is, my father-in-law always critizes everything we do... spend too much, get this-instead of that, why I don't need an 80 gallon compressor and how his ~20 gallon one has done everything he's needed, how instead of lighter/fun colors in the house-he woulda used more Earthly tones.
You know the kind... I've been there, did it better, and now you need to do it like I say. I hate dealing with it during simple conversations... defending all of my decisions and sometimes explaining that I was merely discussing an already-done thing, not asking for opinions/advice.
I have had to be rude and start off sentences with saying, we could afford it, we wanted it, and we've already paid for it...
