Dirty boots and divorce!

[megansmomma]

My husband is on vacation this week from work. He's on my L A S T nerve and it's only Monday. I'm just about ready to lose it with morning. He works in construction and this is an ongoing argument in our house. It's not just construction be he downs with cement driving a cement mixer in the city of Chicago. He claims he has a clean job and that he doesn't bring dirt (cement) into the house when he WEARS HIS WORK BOOT IN MY FRICKIN HOUSE


Everyone else in our house takes off their shoes in the laundryroom when they come home except him. He will get ready for work and put his boots on in the bedroom, walk through the house before leaving, into the kitchen for a cup of coffee, into the laundryroom and out the door. When he comes home he will walk in the house and come to look for me to say hello. When I say something to him about this work boots he will show me the sole of the shoe with no dirt (which I agree) but the tops and sides of the boots are full of dried cement.

Take a look at these thing and answer this question:

Would you allow anyone to walk around your home with these on?

[sbgooljar]

LOL...never, no, no way, no how! Rule at my house is "outside shoes" are removed at the door and you wear "inside shoes/slippers" or walk around in socks/barefeet.

[myteddybear]

LOL I would give him points for thinking to come and say hi to me before he thought of anything else.

My husbands boots don't look like that but I have to say he is the same, everyone else takes them off at the door but not him.

[Micah my love]

Jodi these boots bring back memories of long ago, my deceased dh was a construction worker lol...be proud of him at least he goes to work

[jadabug]

Sounds like my DH Jodie He is office manager for a concrete company and doesn't get as dirty as the drivers, but he still has crap on his boots and he farms too. It took about 10 years to get him to take his boots off on the sun porch, but then he carries them inside and puts them on in the morning. He walks from the kitchen to the living room at least three times before he leaves and usually there is a trail of dried mud or worse cow manure I am right behind him cleaning it up and ranting. Ya'd think they would rather just listen and do what we ask instead of hearing us gripe about it. Men can be such pigs..lol

[Rhetts_mama]

Try meeting him in the laundry room so he doesn't have time to come looking for you with his boots on. If by some chance he does make it out of the roo with the boots, then sneak them back in there so he isn't trouncing out of the bedroom with them on in the morning.

Though to be honest, after 23 years of marriage I have never taught my DH to throw his dirty socks in the laundry...sigh.

[shodanusmc]

Easy solution. You get a pair of boots, dirty them up, and wear them to bed. Marge would pretty much explode. Even when I was on Active duty and came home with muddy utilities and boots, she would meet me at the door with a smile and a Command to take them off. Not much has changed in 40 years.

[Cha Cha]

"I" am "THAT" person in our house. I wear my barn boots into our house, LOL.

[Maximo]

Originally Posted by Cha Cha

"I" am "THAT" person in our house. I wear my barn boots into our house, LOL.

Tsk, tsk, tsk.

I put clean clothes & socks at the door when dad is out mowing the lawn, working with garden chemicals, and generally getting dirty outside. He is good about removing shoes before entering the house.

[gidget529]

I am a germaphobe no outside shoes in the house type person. DH is pretty good at doing it. He does grumble if he is grilling and slipping shoes on and off going in and out. During the "shoe training", I did move his shoes to where I wanted them to be. It helped him get in the habit of removal.

I am still trying to get him into the habit of putting snack dishes into the dishwasher instead of stacking in the sink and waiting for the elves to show up and do their magic!

[Valenie]

Nope I have a 3 year old and 2 yorkies that play on this floor... nope would not allow it!

[Nancy1999]

Is there a chair he can sit on while taken off his boots? Seriously, that can be a big help. How about a chair a small table with a cocktail and a loving note?

[spr377]

I have a crop farmer to deal with! He refuses to take off his work boots til he's ready to take his evening shower

[megansmomma]

Originally Posted by Nancy1999

Is there a chair he can sit on while taken off his boots? Seriously, that can be a big help. How about a chair a small table with a cocktail and a loving note?

Oh wait you were serious?

[megansmomma]

Originally Posted by jadabug

Sounds like my DH Jodie He is office manager for a concrete company and doesn't get as dirty as the drivers, but he still has crap on his boots and he farms too. It took about 10 years to get him to take his boots off on the sun porch, but then he carries them inside and puts them on in the morning. He walks from the kitchen to the living room at least three times before he leaves and usually there is a trail of dried mud or worse cow manure I am right behind him cleaning it up and ranting. Ya'd think they would rather just listen and do what we ask instead of hearing us gripe about it. Men can be such pigs..lol

Oh no!!!! You have a cement guy too My husband will say I'm a driver I don't get dirty like the laborers.

Originally Posted by shodanusmc

Easy solution. You get a pair of boots, dirty them up, and wear them to bed. Marge would pretty much explode. Even when I was on Active duty and came home with muddy utilities and boots, she would meet me at the door with a smile and a Command to take them off. Not much has changed in 40 years.

He's think it was some type of new sexy outfit.