A husband is going viral after his complaint about his wife backfired spectacularly.
Comedian and author Nathan Timmel is the kind of man who is married and likes to create content complaining about being married.
He recently uploaded a TikTok and came in hot by warning “single guys” that this is what it is like to be married.
He then launched into a story about being sent to the supermarket by his wife to grab ingredients for pumpkin bars for Thanksgiving.
Timmel said that while wandering the aisles, he realised canned pumpkin, a vital ingredient, wasn’t on the list his wife had written for him.
He explained that he wasn’t sure if it was an oversight or they already had the ingredient at home, so he rang his wife to clarify.
“She sends me straight to voicemail, shoots through a text [that says] ‘can’t talk.”
The US comedian texted back the dilemma and continued shopping, but 10 minutes later, she still hadn’t replied. He called her again and texted her saying that he needed an “answer.”
She didn’t reply, and that is when he decided he was done waiting and was heading home without the canned pumpkin.
His reasoning? If they already have canned pumpkin, it would “sit on a shelf for a year” because they only use it at Thanksgiving, so he decided not to take the risk of doubling up.
Once Timmel left the shopping centre sans the key ingredient, his wife texted him back, explained that they needed the canned pumpkin, and asked if he could go back and retrieve it.
He refused on the grounds that he’d called her twice with “purpose”, and she should have responded because he wasn’t just calling to “chitchat.”
To finish off the story, he concluded that now his wife is “mad” at him because she had to go to the shop to buy the canned pumpkin, because he refused to return himself.
“Marriage,” he declared at the end of the video with a wry smile, and to add some flair, he included some jazz hands.
People online were puzzled that he didn’t just buy the can of pumpkin to help out his wife during the festive season.
“Imagine how incredibly grateful she would have been if you’d had just brought it home without asking,” one wrote.
“If she didn’t answer, why didn’t you just get the can?” One demanded.
“$2 isn’t worth arguing over,” one pointed out.
“If this is marriage, I don’t want it,” another declared.
“Absolute crazy thing about grocery stores is they give you receipts in case you need to return something,” one pointed out.
One woman said that she’d buy things for her man just because she’s thinking of him, so she couldn’t imagine not “grabbing a $2 item I think he might actually need.”
However, there were still people on Timmel’s side, who commented in defence of his pumpkin actions.
“To everyone saying he should have bought it, he would have been berated for buying it since they already have two cans from last year,” one claimed.
Similarly, someone else said it was fair not to buy it because his wife would have been “mad” if he’d doubled up.
“Everyone saying he should have just gotten it ignoring the fact that he was at the store to help her and she couldn’t spare a couple seconds,” another claimed.
To add to the response of the video, Timmel also wrote a lengthy caption where he summarised marriage as something you stay in because you realise no one else is even “remotely” interested in you and then added he was “joking” and loves his wife.
He summarised the incident as a “big nothing” and said that as a comedian, he needs daily content that he can exaggerate.
He also explained he told the story on stage and got big laughs.