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How do I break it to the wife that I bought another car, without getting stabbed?
 
My friend always hid his out behind the blackberries for a few months, then when the wife noticed mumbled something like it's been there for years.
 
Nice idea, but it's not going to work. I've got until the end of the month to come up with something that sounds believable, and "it followed me home" isn't going to cut it.
 
Give her the same amount you paid, and will pay on the car, to spend as she will.
 
Tell her that you bought it for her. Then let her drive it once or twice.
 
That won't work either - she's not into TR8s.
I think I'm in trouble here...
 
My wife is mad on cats. Every time she wants to get another I tell her in that case I will get another car. Unfortunately the cats don't last as long as the cars and we now have two cats and seven cars!! Offer to buy her a cat!!
 
We have two dogs.
A cat's life expectancy around here is probably marginally less than mine when she gets home :wink:
 
Buy her a puppy!! :smile:
 
She'd kill me for sure. Our dogs are both rescued, and she volunteers at the shelter. If I paid for a dog, it would be <span style="font-style: italic">worse</span>.

Best I can come up with is the old "I'm an addict, I have a problem" routine...
 
I used that line on my wife. It has worked so far. I also tell her that it keeps me out of trouble in the local taverns.
 
Sounds like that's all ya got. Go wifit.

This TR8... it RUNS, yes?

And there IS the: "But I can only drive one at a time." as a diversionary tactic. Totally defies logic, confuzzles the issue.

Good luck!
 
Do you need a new kitchen?
 
How does she feel about jewelry?

Or a trip together and while you're gone a buddy drives the car over, parks it in the garage with a big ribbon on it. He could paint "To Alan, with Love, (her name)" on the windshield in white shoe polish.

Then you come home, see it, start jumping up and down and she's a hero in your eyes......
 
No we just spent an obscene amount on a kitchen. And I'm the cook, so that isn't going to fly either.
 
Could a friend of yours ask you to look after it for a few years while he takes a job abroad?
 
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