My husband told me I can not get a box turtle.

[LaraMN]

What is the appropriate passive-aggressive response?

A. Replace all his underwear with ninja turtle boxers.

B. Appropriate a box turtle habitat, place a large rock inside, and proceed to talk to, about, and feed the rock, insisting that it is "my new box turtle".

C. Buy a box turtle and when confronted, pretend that I can't see it and don't know what he is talking about.

D. Buy a much bigger turtle and claim that I thought he would be okay with it, instead of the box turtle.

E. Hide one of the children and refuse to produce them until he buys me a box turtle.

F. Buy a box turtle, keep it outside, and claim it just "wandered into the yard."

G. Don't get a box turtle; he is right- they smell very bad.

[Midlodemocrat]

1. Do what I do.

I just tell him that he is 'NOT THE BOSS OF ME'.

He doesn't like that, though.

:rofl:

[LaraMN]

3. Sometimes I pull the "I am older than you" card.

Usually I just go do whatever he told me not to, and then reason that he knew I would, anyway.

[LeftyMom]

2. You need to explain to him that Cornryn is wrong, and you won't leave him for the turtle

just because gay people are getting married. He may be feeling a bit concerned.

[LaraMN]

6. Maybe that's the key.

Or I could buy one and tell him that I thought it wasn't real, but I got home and it started moving, and now I have a moral obligation to care for it.

[commander bunnypants]

7. Human box turtle love

CB

[suninvited]

4. At dinnertime

serve him a plate full of turtle food. When he complains, just say "Hey, someone has to eat it, guess this is all you will be getting for a while".

[LaraMN]

9. Except he would probably eat it just to spite me.

He used to eat those Pupperoni dog treats when he was younger. He claims they're not that bad.

[DS1]

5. I can't say too much without getting the post deleted

but it would involve a small plastic turtle head and insertion before intimacy.

[LaraMN]

11. Well, that IS one "experience" that hasn't made our list, yet...

:scared:

[DS1]

13. not that one, the other one

[Blue-Jay]

17. OR, she could say...

"No turtle for me, no box for you!"

[LaraMN]

19. OH! I am SO gonna use that!

:thumbsup:

[Blue-Jay]

20. I live to serve, ma'am.

[LaraMN]

21. You are a true patriot.

:patriot:

[DS1]

22. BANG!

[SallyMander]

8. Just show him this pic

Squee!!

[LaraMN]

12. Omg! See!

They're so cute!!!

[Zavulon]

10. G.

Sorry, but my nephew has a turtle, and you'd be better off putting a cat's litter box right in the middle of your living room.

[LaraMN]

14. They're THAT bad?

:-(

[SallyMander]

15. Depends if it's a water turtle (terrapin) or a tortoise

I had both as a kid. Terrapins get STANKY!!! Land-dwelling critters are much easier to clean up after - you can just get rid of the poop instead of having to deal with nasty filters and cesspool water.

[Zavulon]

16. Oh, Christ, yes.

You've got to clean out that cage / aquarium / whatever twice or more daily, or it smells like rotten swamp.

Please trust me on this. I drove my mom over to my sister's place one day just after the kid got the turtle, and my mother actually threw up after about 15 minutes.

[KitchenWitch]

18. Procure a snapping turtle from the swamp and put it in his underwear drawer

[TrogL]

23. Maybe you should consult the box turtle bulletin

http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/

Take, for example, the USA Today poll. In this, the respondant was asked to determine if the decision to marry was “strictly a private decision between the two people” or whether “the government has the right to pass laws to prohibit or allow such marriages” for a series of hypothetic couples. Respondants were asked about mixed religion and mixed race marriages along with same sex couples.

So does your husband have a religious objection to box turtles?

[BlueJazz]

24. Bring this Guy home and say: Since I can't have a turtle I got a Turtle-neck.