Marrieds, and relationships only please, poll...

[R.A.F.]

Ok...those married posters, or those in a relationship...

Straight forward question...

Who is right most of the time??

[AstroRockHunter]

Do you really think that I would be dumb enough to answer that question honestly with my wife looking over my shoulder?

[R.A.F.]

Do you really think that I would be dumb enough to answer that question honestly with my wife looking over my shoulder?

I would think THAT would make the answer OBVIOUS....

[AstroRockHunter]

Yeah, I do have a penchant for stating the ovbious ...

[Trebuchet]

Do you really think I would be dumb enough to answer that question, honestly or no, whether she's watching or not? Cheech & Chong! Besides, Chong's daughter was pretty hot in her suit of mud.

[Gillianren]

Graham's not home, but I don't think he'd argue with me anyway. And if he did, I'd still be right.

Now, of course, this is because Graham is less educated and less experienced than I. He also has this tendency to assume that everyone thinks the same way he does, and anyone who believes that is going to be wrong a lot of the time. It is worth noting that, when he is right, I acknowledge it.

[closetgeek]

I put I am but the fact that I am typically the one to raise objections skews the results a bit. He is a lot more easy going and seems to have an easier time letting things slide.

[John Mendenhall]

We are curiously balanced and both willing to admit to being wrong; this needs to be a poll choice.

[Tensor]

Well, I put cheech and chong, mainly because who is right is heavily dependent on the subject that is being discussed. Our experiences are scattered enough, that each of us have our strong points and weak points. And, in our case, those are complementary to each other. And besides, who can resist voting for cheech and chong?

[Gillianren]

I can, actually. I really don't like Cheech and Chong.

[Tensor]

I can, actually. I really don't like Cheech and Chong.

Actually, that was rhetorical. The option I would have chosen, wasn't available.

[mfumbesi]

I'm always wrong in our home, even if we agree on something and things go wrong later. It is always my fault, I've learned to live with this.
I occasionally joke about it, it is no big deal really. Life is too short to fret about all the little things.

[Perikles]

I've never heard of Cheech and Chong, but I guess that means 50-50. But I'm very uncertain how to answer. The wife is always right about trivial matters such as relationships with other people, emotional issues, the euro crisis, Spanish subjunctives, illness diagnosis and so on, yet hopeless at really important issues such as the best way to play a tricky three no-trump contract.

What kind of issues are relevant here?

[swampyankee]

Do you really think that I would be dumb enough to answer that question honestly with my wife looking over my shoulder?

You did type that question...

[swampyankee]

I've never heard of Cheech and Chong, but I guess that means 50-50. But I'm very uncertain how to answer. The wife is always right about trivial matters such as relationships with other people, emotional issues, the euro crisis, Spanish subjunctives, illness diagnosis and so on, yet hopeless at really important issues such as the best way to play a tricky three no-trump contract.

What kind of issues are relevant here?

Cheech and Chong were (are?) a comic duo whose schtick involved them acting stoned most of the time. I have no idea what the reference in the poll means.

And issues relevant here? What's most astronomical or irrelevant?

[Tog]

I think it runs about even for me. She's got a much better vocabulary and knows far more about art (the practice, not the study), but I've got much better math and planning skills. One of us will usually deffer to the other when a topic comes up that would be a "specialty."

[Paracelsus]

In my marriage, things break down this way:
--For arguments over cleaning the house, I'm always right.
--For arguments over some variety of mechanical issue, hubby is always (or almost always) right.
--For arguments over other topics, we both punt.

[Swift]

Well, I put cheech and chong, mainly because who is right is heavily dependent on the subject that is being discussed. Our experiences are scattered enough, that each of us have our strong points and weak points. And, in our case, those are complementary to each other. And besides, who can resist voting for cheech and chong?

What Tensor said. And lots of the points of real discussions don't have a "right or wrong", such as the current discussion on dining room sets.

I am definitely the more organized one and more technical/scientific. I'm usually right on the chemistry questions we have to deal with as a couple (yeah, lots of those ). Mrs. Swift, the Social Worker major and HR professional is definitely the people person in the household. It actually works out quite well (well, at least the first 22 years have).

[Cougar]

Who is right most of the time??

Right now, the polling is about equal on all choices. I think this would not be the case if the choices were (1) the husband or (2) the wife.

[R.A.F.]

I've never heard of Cheech and Chong, but I guess that means 50-50.

I included c and c as an option instead of beer. But it can mean anything ya want.


...and yes....should have included "both of us are equally right", as an option....DOH!!

[R.A.F.]

Right now, the polling is about equal on all choices.

Yeah...how the heck did that happen?

[Fazor]

Yeah...how the heck did that happen?

Like most things I touch, I broke it. The straight-forward answer is that I am right more often than she is. We actually just had this conversation on the way to the airport on Thursday.

Of course, I'm happy to ignore confirmation bias, and talk in a general sense rather than pointing out that it heavily depends on the subject in contention.

I do often tell Tara that I am always right. She gets upset and says that is the same thing as saying she's always wrong. I point out that her statement is wrong, and that all I'm saying is that she's only always wrong when she disagrees with me. I'm even nice enough to point out that it means anytime she agrees with me, which is quite often, it means she's right. So I'm not even saying that she's wrong all that often.

...that doesn't seem to make her any less mad at me.

[jrkeller]

Women are always right.

[Nick Theodorakis]

"If a husband talks to himself in the forest, and there is no one else there to hear him, is he still wrong?"

Nick

[Buttercup]

It's rather "even steven" in our marriage. Sometimes he's right, sometimes I'm right. We've been married 19 years now and have worked out a very equitable relationship. We both can admit when the other is right, and work to a mutually rewarding solution.

[danscope]

Buttercup and Tensor have it right. In a marriage, you share your opinions. You learn to see more than one side of the box. Individuals tend to have tunnel vision quite often. And when one is down, often the other can pick you up.
Like Cheech said: " You have to share things ,man."

Dan

[Gillianren]

Right now, the polling is about equal on all choices. I think this would not be the case if the choices were (1) the husband or (2) the wife.

I'd like it better than the current option, which is very close to "I'm going to assume that essentially everyone answering this is male." While it's true that we have a larger population of males than females around here, it still irritated me when I voted.

[NEOWatcher]

I'm divorced, does that count?
Strange thing in our marriage was that I was always wrong, but her sister was always right.
My ex had an issue with that because her sister and I agreed a lot more than her and her sister.

[PetersCreek]

The Wife® and I have a long running joke between us: she's always right and I know everything.

[danscope]

Well, you know your smoked sausage, Brett .