Love it, @sax!
You would think that there would be some agreement on terms within a family, but I have the same issue. I’m always asking for clarification. The “next week” thing would have had me questioning which week, too.
I would say Tuesday or Wednesday if I was talking about the day that will be two or three days away. I might even say see you THIS Tuesday or Wednesday. If I meant the one 9 days from now, I would say NEXT.
A while back there was a thread about something similar to this where a teacher said there would either be a test or something due and used “next”. The students thought she meant the one 9 days from then, but she meant the one two days from her reminder.
I think by the end of the thread no one agreed and perhaps it was deemed regional (haha, I know, hard to believe here on CC).
Ask.
Over the weekend, next Tuesday quite possibly might mean “day after tomorrow Tuesday”. On Monday, next Tuesday would mean a week from tomorrow.
sax:
41 years, really? Yikes. I’m going on number 29 in November and that’s cause I haven’t killed him yet. They say if I killed him I would have been out sooner than the 29 years! 
Congrats on lasting so long!
I asked three people this question today, and they all said, “8 days from now”. Thank goodness that’s what I thought too. I hate to be the odd one out. It would never occur to me to say Next week, when referring to two days from now. THIS week (coming up) and NEXT week.
@chocchipcookie , pretty funny. I guess the sentence gets longer with good behavior.
We started dating exclusively at 18, married at 23 and all of a sudden here we are. So yes, 41 years of trying to understand one another. He just retired (59) and now we are forced to communicate. Its not going well. It was so much easier when we just passed one another in the house and mumbled something.
I like your cohort, CCC. My kind of people. Easy to understand. They make perfect sense.
wow, cnp55. That really muddies up the water. No wonder we cant all agree.
sax - there is always make up “replacing a in your SN with an e.” If this is what you guys are fighting about, you are good.
Just asked hubby, he said 2 or 3 days. I said absolutely not, next implies after this. We went round and round and he relented. Then he laughed and said it reminded him of our fight over next month I posted about earlier…we hadn’t talked about that in 20 years yet we both remember it. (I was right then and I’m right now) but this is the guy who got me nuts last year with our vacation in February that he kept calling spring, even though we had a huge snowstorm while we were gone. He insists February is spring.
A wise old widow woman once told me that she had a long, relatively happy marriage because she had learned how to say “You MAY be right, dear.” She kept her pride because she wasn’t saying he was right, or that she was wrong. And, he was happy knowing that she wasn’t saying he was wrong. I wish I could do that in my own relationships, some of these sorts of spats may not happen as often.