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To have got a bit cross and shouty...

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Ana Sat 24-Aug-13 13:02:19

Jane, I am asolutely flabbergasted! shock

Neither you nor thatbags is being unreasonable in my opinion, but while I can just about accept that her OH and DD could still be asleep at 11 a.m., I can't see your OH's reasoning at all! He seems to be suffering from OCD in reverse.....confused

janeainsworth Sat 24-Aug-13 12:57:08

YANBU Bags
Sometimes they have to have it socked to them, don't they?
I was tempted to post earlier on, about the irritation I feel that MrA is incapable of taking his shoes off and putting them away in the hall cupboard where there is a shoe-rack specifically for the purpose of storing his shoes. But no. He leaves them on the floor in the hall and I am certain that should I pre-decease him, within a couple of weeks of my demise there will be a small shoe-mountain in the hall.
This morning he surpassed himself. In my utility room I have some shelves where I keep my stocks of tissues, kitchen rolls and loo paper. At the moment there are two multi-packs of loo paper to choose from, the one I got from Tesco a few weeks ago and another one that was surplus to requirements from the sailing trip he was on last week.
I went into the utility room to find both multi-packs on the floor, with a couple of rolls spilled out in a random fashion.
When I asked him why he had had to remove both packs from the shelves and leave them on the floor just to get another loo roll, his reply was that he did not suffer from OCD shockshock
Honestly!! What can you do??

thatbags Sat 24-Aug-13 12:56:21

gm, he wasn't even awake until eleven! Neither was DD. They only woke up then because I'd put an alarm on, knowing I'd be busy outside. Humph again.

gracesmum Sat 24-Aug-13 12:42:36

smile and brew - let them regard it as father/daughter bonding time.
I am so relieved to hear my DH isn't the only one to regard reading (in his case iPad) in bed until 11 a valid use of time on a Saturday.

kittylester Sat 24-Aug-13 12:41:15

No bags you are not being unreasonable. Any reasonable woman would have done the same grin And I bet the bread will be great. smile

thatbags Sat 24-Aug-13 12:34:45

... when DH expected me to drive DD to her riding lesson when I had just finished getting hot and bothered (though satisfied with my work) with a hedge cutter, a saw, and loppers, tackling a rhododendron hedge that needs a ladder for me to reach the top, and all he had done this morning is lie in bed until eleven, drink coffee and lounge about reading his kindle?

He always drives her there when we are going to archery afterwards (except for one or two occasions when I have, but that has been when I haven't been hacking rhodies all morning). He likes driving and I don't. He knows this. He hates tackling hedges. Seems like a reasonable split of work to me.

Anyway, I got cross and shouty and they left. I went and had a cross shower and now I'm writing this, drinking coffee (crossly) and biting snappishly into some biscuits. Snarl. Growl.

I started some bread dough earlier. I think I'd better go and thump it.

Grrrrrr and thank you for letting me shout on gransnet. Outward sigh, somewhat releaved by getting it off my chest.

Small growl.

They forgot to take a cheque to pay for the lesson, naturally. Humph.