Friday mornings are manic for me getting 2 children to nursery and also on Fridays I try to hoover the house (husband does not like the hoover going when he is home) and sort out formula milk/ something for dinner etc before going to work
Almost finished the hooovering this morning (one room to go) babies in the car, failed to get something out of the freezer for dinner because as i was going to get it i saw a dead mouse which our cat obviously brought in lying on the carpet in the room between me and the freezer (the only room i had not hoovered)
it is both pathetic and lazy of me to have left a voicemessage for husband at work saying when you get home can you pick up the dead mouse for me isn't it. he knows I have a total hatred of mice (dead or alive) but still this is pathetic of me. Been trying to concentrate since i got to work but wondering whether i can creep home at lunchtime to ask the neighbour to do it. trouble is it is a 20 min drive each way to get home & back
AIBU?
Failure to remove a dead mouse
bubbles11 · 05/10/2012 10:23
Ah bless you. Everyone is allowed one irrational fear I think!
On the plus side, if you can summon up the courage to deal with it, your DH will be impressed 
I would suggest gloves plus many layers of paper towel, then you won't really feel it as you pick it up. Or use a trowel if you have one so no need to touch it at all.
Do not do it! If you are horrified by mice, he should do it. In our house, DH gets rid of spiders, and I get rid of slugs and mice, it's a kindness not to make the other person pick up what they don't like. If DH had sent me a message asking me to remove one of the above when I got home, I'd gladly do it, I certainly wouldn't call him lazy! I would expect the same respect with regards to spiders (except the little buggers would have disappeared by then 
).
Oh and sounds like your MIL needs to butt out! but as you say that's off the point.
Who are you married to, Mariah Carey?
Tea through nostrils moment 
OP, just pick it up in a tissue and drop it in the wheelie bin.
Did I read that wrong or were you hoovering the house whilst the babies were in the car? 
X post, I was a bit about the hoovering too... And now the housework! So, not only does he not do any, he can't even bring himself to be in the house whilst his muck is being cleaned up?! I think you have deeper issues than a dead mouse tbh
Btw, my DH is a bugger with housework too, he hardly does any, but then he is happy to live in filth
The hoovering / housework whilst the children are in the car in the mornings is one of my deepest shames. not denying it, yes it makes me feel crap, yes even tho they are sat on the driveway (safe, car locked, detached house etc) i still hate it but can see no other way round it. excuses, cannot bring myself to get into more of a discussion about it
I'm sorry but how the fuck do you get a 2yr old and a 3yr old (I believe that's the age of your kids?) to sit happily in a car on their own, whilst you hoover through the entire house?
That's insane.
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You are treated like a skivvy and the mouse is your main concern?
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