Would you be Mad at your Spouse...
 

Imagine, just for a minute, that you've been out of town on a business trip for a few days and you're flight is arriving at, say, 10:10 pm.

Say that your wife doesn't want to pick you up at the airport because a) she doesn't want to wake up your two young daughters and load them in the car and b) the final episode of Big Brother 4 is on from 9-10 and your wife's sorority sister from her chapter is in the running to win and she wants to see it.

Say also, that you're b**ching that hiring a car to take you from the airport to your house would cost $30 yet you bring home a hefty paycheck every two weeks and live very comfortably.

Would you be pi**ed off at your wife (who is, incidently, a wonderful wife and mother :) ) or would you just shut your mouth and hire a car then forget about it? Is the wife being unreasonable????

The sleeping kids thing is what got me. Big Bro can be taped, but asking you to disrupt 2 sleeping children is a bit much.

You're right. Tell him to suck it up and you'll have dinner waiting for him when he gets home.

I think that you should take this rare opportunity to meet your husband at the airport wearing nothing but a coat and La Perla's finest. It's a perfect night for your kids to stay at the neighbor's. :)

Doing something for someone you love is not always easy and you may not want to do it. It is sometimes the little things that count. After being away from his wonderful wife and kids he might want to see them all happy and smiling there to welcome him back. Make him feel all that hard work to bring some money home is worth it. I am sure he knows it's worth it, but sometimes actions speak louder than words. Just my opinion though.

Knowing how much your hubby travels, what do you usually do?

I think waking up the kids is a bit much. Tell him to go without a couple lattes if he's that concerned about the $30.

Maybe he's just crabby?

This sounds more like something that a woman would get pissy over ;)

i would divorce this woman as soon as i got home and then boot her out of MY house.

The issue with the kids seems legitimate to me, but I couldn't support the other part of the excuse. I think the husband should understand about the kids, and that should be that.

I would want to be the one to pick up my husband if he had been out of town. Waking up the sleeping kids could be difficult but I think being there for your spouse is most important. Plus if the roles were reversed the wife would want her family there to greet her at the airport.

I don't know about the two children in question here, but I promise you that mine would be absolutely unbearable if I were to wake him up in the night to run to the airport. He would probably not be smiling and happy.

That said, I can understand why you wouldn't want to wake the kids. Like someone else said, though, Big Brother can be taped.

If you sited the TV show as the reason, I could understand why the spouse would be upset. But, 10:10 is a little late to be packing up the kids...especially if the airport isn't close by. If the flight was coming in earlier, I'd say go...but since it's not, I don't think it's unreasonable.

I agree with the majority. Kids = Stay, Show = Go.

BTW, my first boss here hired a limo to pick up wife and mil at the Atlanta airport to drive home. What should have taken about 45 minutes took about 2-3 hours because the bozo driver took the WRONG direction around I285 (which is a huge loop around Atlanta). He practically did about a 150 degree loop THEN head north on I75! That time of day, there was MUCHO traffic.

Either airport is a long haul for me.

Mr. Adrienne, chivalrous knight that he is, doesn't feel good about yours truly making a trip at weird hours of the night. Plus, w/ work and managing the house, it's not like I'm sitting on my ass all day. So if hes' on business and his flight gets in late, he hires a car.

But that's just us.

Adrienne
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Mr. AXO_MOM_3 would just have to be mad because I would not be waking up my little darlings to go get his hiney from the airport, regardless of what was on tv! Schedule a late flight babe, and be prepared to pay for a ride home (especially if he can afford it!) Saving $30.00 is not worth having wide awake children at 3:00 in the morning, and having grumpy children the entire next week because their schedule is totally off. Nope, he would just have to be mad!

It's all about the kids.

I say stay home-- he will get over it. My reasoning is the kids, I also have two kids once they are asleep I don't want to wake them!!!
Was he on a business trip? If so, expense the ride home. My reasoning for that is---the company pays the hired car, or next time they pay for his parking at the airport. *I pay all the salesman's expenses at my company and I would never hesitate to pay for a car*

-wendi