A term used by guys to describe how likely their brilliant home improvement projects, social plans or
geek toys
will be accepted by their wives.
Note that the purist never assigns a
Wife Acceptance Factor a number score, like 8.7, or a even a relative amount like "low" or "high". This is what keeps it from being the precise measurement implied by the name, and adds to the
irony.
Neither does the purist ever use the abbreviation
WAF, it is always sardonically drawled out in full: "Wife Acceptance Factor".
It is also never used by hen-pecked husbands, since they have no say in anything anyway.
Yeah, that SONY 60" 3D HDTV I wanted just didn't have the whole
Wife Acceptance Factor thing going on.
Dude! That's at least reasonable. My
wife put the kibosh on my awesome home automation plan, which anyone would agree should fly right under the
Wife Acceptance Factor radar.