Am I over reacting...

[Toolin Around]

I walk into the kitchen to find my wife spraying the counter down with Mortein bug spray, she hates ants. My first thought is what the hell are you doing, I don't say that of course. As far as I know this shyte is poison and will kill most anything in the right dose. Long story short she gets all defiant when I say that's a pretty dumb thing to do spraying poison that will last at least a week on all the surfaces I will be preparing food on and eating off of. Shes now in the kitchen all pi55ed off cause I reprimanded her for it.

Am I over reacting in not wanting to be poisoned? :doh:

[Groggy]

She is probably mad because she did a silly thing and was called on it.

I reckon I'd be unhappy eating food prepared on those surfaces too.

[manoftalent]

I would make amends by cleaning the infected area with a hot water and white vinegar solution, then go buy a pack of outdoor surface spray and spray around the windows, door frames, external pipes and waste grids ..this should prevent further infestations and keep the household on a happy medium ...we all make mistakes .......but do we all make amends?:2tsup:

[flynnsart]

You probably should have said that it may not be a good idea to do that on a food preparing surface, and that you would pop down in the morning and get some suitable ant powder and go around and treat the entrance areas to the house. No one likes to be told they have done a dumb thing, even if they have done a really dumb thing:rolleyes:

Donna

[NewLou]

It'll pass m8 give her a hug...........................

:2tsup:

[Andy Mac]

I have an aversion to bug sprays altogether, only bought one can of surface spray in the last 10yrs or more. And it is kept away from food surfaces. Hate the cockies, but ants don't phase me at all, they're usually only after a drink or to let you know you haven't wiped a spillage. Flies...well there's screens and a swatter; spiders I catch and let go outside. Nothing else crawling about the place deserves to be poisoned, except termites maybe. I'd prefer a bit of an ecosystem than a sterile lab to live in!:p

Cheers,

[abitfishy]

Geez, I think you are overreacting a bit. Since being a kitchen bench I assume its not overly pourous, so give it a wipe down with warm water and detergent and go on your merry way. I promise you won't die. And I thought the women were the drama queens!! :doh:

[Toolin Around]

Well I did apologize for being a bit harsh :rolleyes: She wiped down everything though I plan to go over everything again myself :~ as I still can't believe the naivety :doh: of such an act. Especially considering the way she acted when the pest control guy sprayed the cat dishes outside. I guess the cats mean more to her than me :roll:.

[dazzler]

You prepare directly on the bench, not on a preparation board, god your dumb. :)

[rodm]

Do not repeat the cleaning off she has done. You are going to make her feel like she is totally useless and can't even clean properly.

[Harry72]

Also not too mention what those sprays can do too the finish...

[artme]

My better half is a demon when it comes to using spray can insecticides. Mind you we have a can that has been sitting here for about two years as we don,t use it very often. To her credit SWMBO will not allow the use of sprays in the kitchen but if she sees a coackroach or spider any where then it's fair game. The said offenders don't get just a squirt. They get drowned!! If it weren't for that acn of spray would last a decade.

[kekemo]

:rolleyes:..........yep....all the above are relevent....BUT...is there a bug & ant problem?

Now, if there is...What have you done about it....perhaps she would like you to offer some idea's in how to alliviate this....you know working together is the best in all things....

:wink:....its all in the approach...."hey...babydoll...you trying to poison us...??.......let me help you find another way to get rid of these critters....."

or...."honey...I'm sorry about my big feet....I always seem to be putting them in my mouth when I go to speak to you... I should have asked what I could do to help you?......

LOVE .....is worth every little bit of help you can get.

Now if there isn't a bug problem....then theres something else bugging her.:oo:....maybe just you need to refresh your time & togetherness....

...females aren't like dead-wood....we can't be moulded into something were not.....we're more like a living tree we can bend and adapt, with the warmth of sunlight & love... can influence our life....

ie...don't start trying to mould us with an arbortec's....try a very fine grit sand paper first....LOL

Cheers mate:p....all the best....don't be afraid to ask for help....everyone needs to be more honest in todays world, I congratulate you for asking!

KEKEMO:2tsup:

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[scooter]

C'mon, Matt, how long have you been married?

Repeat after me:

It was my fault. I was wrong. I'm sorry. Here are some flowers.

Sooner you get that down pat, the better for your relationship.

:D

[Tex79]

Do not repeat the cleaning off she has done. You are going to make her feel like she is totally useless and can't even clean properly.


Couldn't agree more, you'll just dig yourself into an even deeper hole. You did the right thing apologizing, even if you believe you are right. I do it all the time, it keeps the peace and me out of the bad books.
My missus sprays so much of Mortein onto spiders that turn white with all of the poison. I think the spider drowns in the stuff before the poison has a chance to kill it!
I don't bother saying anything any more.

[Clinton1]

No you are not over reacting.

however.... it seems you forgot the important rule...
"its not what you say, its how you say it."

Have fun being the "ba$tard of the house" for a while :D :rolleyes:

[Harry72]

At least she didnt do what my SWNBO did, it had taken me several months of weekends to make my new kitchen benchtops because I recycled a heap of jarrah bearers then laminated them up into the top... it took yonks.
The day I put it all inside the house so I could clean up the shed to do the spray job SWMBO decides to cook some fish in a frying pan... can you guess what happened... I wasnt happy at all especially since I told her earlier that day not to even go near the raw unfinished but lovingly sanded bench tops!
It took 2 days solid of hand planing and sanding to correct it again, not too mention all the epoxy filling I had done needed redoing... an extra 3 weeks it put me behind!

[prozac]

Can't live with 'em,.......can't live with 'em.

[dazzler]

C'mon, Matt, how long have you been married?

Repeat after me:

It was my fault. I was wrong. I'm sorry. Here are some flowers.

Sooner you get that down pat, the better for your relationship.

:D

Actually tomorrow is Sorry Day for Matt's wife, dont miss it :)

[Buzza]

Don't try to understand them, just rope em' throw em' brand em'.

They are queer darn cattle.

Never tell them how to do anything is the safest way. :)

[Toyboy]

Try this.

(1) Don't take any crap...ever,
(2) Lay down the law,
(3) Make it quite clear who runs the show,
and lastly, and most importantly,
(4) Regular beatings.

That's what SWMBO does to me, and we get on just fine.:2tsup:

[Sebastiaan56]

Is the pesticide harmful to mammals? or humans? The really toxic stuff requires a license nowadays....... When I was young we used to spray the bloody vegetables before we cooked them and that was when we grew them in the middle of the road!! Seriously, you will find that the dosage required of the active ingredients to harm humans will be pretty high. Insecticides are becoming more targetted all the time. I would still wash everything first.

Be gentle with the boss, good ones are hard to find. Id suck up big time if I were you. Of course you may need to go timber shopping to find some nice "(insert relevant timber of lust here)" to make some nice new chopping boards.