What has "gone wrong or broken" at home when you weren't there?

[Bowstrider13]

I am at work one night and my wife calls me in tears. So I ask what is wrong, She tells me a mouse ran under the stove. I tell her don't worry i will take care of it. Then she tells me that she has a pizza in the oven. OK I say. But it is starting to burn. Well take it out. No the mouse might get me. Well turn off the oven and she says it will get me still bawling the whole time. Telling me I have to come home now. Now here is the kicker at the time I worked an hour away plus had a job you could not leave until another person replaces you. So at least a 2 hour endeavor to get home. The whole time a pizza is burning in the oven and I have a hysterical wife scared that Jerry mouse is going to rip her apart. Needless to say smoke detectors were going off my house was filled with smoked and she is out side crying in the yard. Then she proceeds to tell me we can't live in the country no more, because of one little field mouse. Oh and my 6 year old son at the time is laughing at his mothers plight. Yes he offered to turn off the oven but she could not subject her child to the dangers of killer mouse. He still gives her a hard time over it today.

[DeadeyeDeb]

I am at work one night and my wife calls me in tears. So I ask what is wrong, She tells me a mouse ran under the stove. I tell her don't worry i will take care of it. Then she tells me that she has a pizza in the oven. OK I say. But it is starting to burn. Well take it out. No the mouse might get me. Well turn off the oven and she says it will get me still bawling the whole time. Telling me I have to come home now. Now here is the kicker at the time I worked an hour away plus had a job you could not leave until another person replaces you. So at least a 2 hour endeavor to get home. The whole time a pizza is burning in the oven and I have a hysterical wife scared that Jerry mouse is going to rip her apart. Needless to say smoke detectors were going off my house was filled with smoked and she is out side crying in the yard. Then she proceeds to tell me we can't live in the country no more, because of one little field mouse. Oh and my 6 year old son at the time is laughing at his mothers plight. Yes he offered to turn off the oven but she could not subject her child to the dangers of killer mouse. He still gives her a hard time over it today.

But, the question is...................do you still live in the country?

[Bowstrider13]

yes I still live in the country she likes the schools out here to much to move into the city

[chrisgunguy]

I am at work one night and my wife calls me in tears. So I ask what is wrong, She tells me a mouse ran under the stove. I tell her don't worry i will take care of it. Then she tells me that she has a pizza in the oven. OK I say. But it is starting to burn. Well take it out. No the mouse might get me. Well turn off the oven and she says it will get me still bawling the whole time. Telling me I have to come home now. Now here is the kicker at the time I worked an hour away plus had a job you could not leave until another person replaces you. So at least a 2 hour endeavor to get home. The whole time a pizza is burning in the oven and I have a hysterical wife scared that Jerry mouse is going to rip her apart. Needless to say smoke detectors were going off my house was filled with smoked and she is out side crying in the yard. Then she proceeds to tell me we can't live in the country no more, because of one little field mouse. Oh and my 6 year old son at the time is laughing at his mothers plight. Yes he offered to turn off the oven but she could not subject her child to the dangers of killer mouse. He still gives her a hard time over it today.

Wow. That is very funny.

[SouthTX1911]

WTH was he doing hunting there in the first place?

The school and his mom called my parents and told them he was havin a real tough time since his grandpa died and was hoping he could come hang out at the ranch and maybe do some hunting. (My parents have been taking in kids who have a tough time for years and use their place as a retreat for families that need it and a place for troubled teens to let some energy out). This was the only time this has happened.

[JWF]

I'm leaving the state to work an ice storm and my wife calls and tells me my heeler dominoed early what does she do??? So I told her to bring them all inside and walked her through docking the tails and she called back 30 mins later and all was good. When I got back a week later all were happy and healthy and I was impressed!

[Mudslinger]

Thankfully the only thing that has happend at my house while I was gone was my 2 Rotties telling me that I had left them in the house too long. Both pee'd and 1, not sure which, but I have a good idea, left a huge pile on my Springbok rug in my trophy room. It stunk so bad, i had to get the wife to clean it up, and she did. Fortunatley the Springbok had a coarse, hollow hair and nothing saturated into the hair or hide and it cleaned up nicely and did not smell afterwards. Thanks to my wife for taking car of this! Unfortunaltey I no longer have these 2 Rotties, but they are being replaced with 2 puppies the first of Nov, so this could possibly happen again.

[Cull]

Glad to see I am not the only one. Things always break or happen when I am gone. Smoke detectors, internet problems, satellite problems, plumbing problems, IRS audit letter......

[Razorback01]

Car batteries, drains/sewer, and everything etc.

[Longstick]

having one of the oaks in he front yard trimmed...TO THE GROUND!!!

[scrapwave]

Hot water line under the kitchen sink split open one evening while we were out..ruined the flooring in the kitchen and the carpet in the hallway and dining room because the hot water shrunk the carpet. Insurance had to replace laminant in the kitchen and all the carpet in the living room, dining room and hallway because the all open to each other. The sad thing was we had just spent over $1K on that carpet a few months before. We could have waited and let the insurance replace the old carpet for free if we had only known! LOL!