What "well-intentioned" mistake has DH made lately?

Question

My 4yo gets really bad chapped lips, and is constantly toting around a Chapstick. DH was home with the kids yesterday afternoon and was concerned the Chapstick wasn't doing the trick, so he did some online research and found out that plain Vaseline is really the best treatment. He dug though the bathroom cabinets and found a tube of Vaseline and smeared it all over DS's lips. He felt it worked really well and noted that he could see an improvement already. (He told me all this when I got home from work yesterday.)

So, at dinner, DS was again complaining about his lips and asked for the "Daddy trick." I went to the bathroom to get the magic tube of Vaseline, but couldn't find it anywhere. "Right there in top drawer...the white tube," DH called to me.

Ummm...not Vaseline, it was KY JELLY!!!!

Ahhhh haha haha! I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. DH had put KY Jelly all over poor little DS's lips. I guess it couldn't hurt, but I doubt it cured is chapped lips. I went back into the kitchen and handed DS his CHAPSTICK!

Answer 1

Nothing quite that hilarious but...



We have two girls, one wears size 2T and the other wears 18 months...so they are in similar sizes but I can tell the difference. He cannot! I asked him to take the girls out of the bath tub and put them in their PJs. I always lay their towels and PJs out in the bathroom so when it's time to get out we change in there and they stay extra warm! So the girls come out of the bathroom wearing each others PJs! The 3 year old had PJ pants on that looked like capris and the 1 year old had her PJ pants rolled up several times in the waist as they were too long...ya think he could have figured it out at that point, right? So I laughed and pointed it out and he said, "Ahhh, they are fine!" I did switch their pants before they went to bed but left the tanks on them as they were not horribly big/small!

Answer 2

Well last week, we were continuing on with sprucing up the yard for spring.

Usually my husband is strictly on raking and mowing the lawn duties around our yard. In the past I never let him near my flower bed and my herb bed. Now I know why!



I have a lot or perennials herbs and flowers in my two flower beds. He really wanted to help with some of the "fun" stuff. Well a lot of herbs and flowers such as my hibiscus, grow back from the base of the stems. I told my husband to just trim down the dead old foliage from last year. I gave him in dept directions and told him only to cut this down to about 4 inches and that down to about 3 inches. He seemed to be doing good, so I let him continue and took our 14 months old son into the house for a diaper change and a snack.



When I returned, I couldn't believe my eyes, he had ripped out my herb plants and my perennial flowers plants, roots, and all, right out of the ground and threw them in the compost pile. I ask, "Why the hell did you do that, and he replies, its looks much better that way!" I was pretty upset, as we have only lived here for two years and the plants where just starting to get established. Guess I will be starting over this year.

He meant well, but he should have just followed my directions!!

Answer 3

LOL!!! Sometimes they mean to well.. but it just doesn't work!



My son is teething and coming off a mild virus has been having a little loose stool from it. He didn't have any diaper rash.. but around his tushie-hole was a little pink... so my husband took off his diaper and let him play on the floor for a little to give it some air. Which was really nice.. until he pooped on my carpet like a dog.. LOL. & DH said he cleaned it up but I saw a beige streak there that had to be re-cleaned, ha. He really did mean well!



My husband and I joke about this stuff all the time. He found this funny article about it in a fake paper we have around here called "The Onion".. you have to read it!!!!!!!!



http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/man_given_points_for_trying

Answer 4

OMG... How Funny!! I



really don't have the time to write all that Hubby has done, but one that sticks out is: One day I was complaining because my clothes were to tight. I was saying the dryer must have shrunk them (Yeah right!). He looks at me and says, you are not fat...You are seasonally plump! Made me sound like a flippen turkey or something! His heart was in the right place, but his mouth sure wasn't.



DH = Dear Husband

DS = Dear Son

DD = Dear Daughter

Answer 5

really, I do not mean to sound dumb but what is DH & DS, geesh I have been wondering that forever.

LOL @ the KY.....

my husband wrote my son's name in permanant marker on a plastic walmart bag that was being carried to school with snacks in it. I tried to explain to him that even permanant marker will wipe off a plastic bag and be all over the school clothes.

EDIT* got it, thanks....lol I would of never figured it out.

Answer 6

I'll know for sure in about two hours when he gets up (he worked last night) but I'm pretty sure $60 worth of easter candy and toys is melted in the back seat of his truck.



His well-intentions were to help me out and get the stash because I haven't had time, and when I do have time I have the kids with me. His heart is in the right place.

Answer 7

Ahhh that's too funny! Thanks for the laugh, I'm way too stressed out today.



Selar- Don't feel bad. I asked the same thing a couple weeks ago. It's dear husband, dear son, you get the picture.

Answer 8

Hey....my three year old son, ( then three year old), found my KY and brushed his teeth with it. UGHHH, it had spermicide in it. He`s still alive and he`s 9.





Edit:I don`t need the stuff anymore, ahem, but...from then on,( until I got fixed), we kept it in the side drawer.