Sometimes my ex makes me question my own sanity so doing this as an AIBU
So situation is this. Usually my kids go up to see their mum alternate weekends on the train. It's about a 90 mile trip in the car which on a Friday is hell. Usually works well. Except this weekend DD is busy and DS is too young to get the train on his own.
I suggest driving up with DS and meeting up at a convenient place. I'll do 75% of the driving on the Friday since I will pop in at a mates afterwards for dinner. On Sunday if she could meet me halfway at the services we've used a few times.
Ex decides this is not the best way at all. She's suggested a place which is much closer to her and involves me driving through country roads and will take me 2x as long. All because Bing maps says it's the shortest way between us. As I just pointed out to her, no human looking at a map would ever choose that way! It might be technically the shortest route but it's 3x harder to drive and twice as long in time. She now thinks I'm being awkward.
The services we've used several times before is a longer trip for her by 5 miles but is motorway all the way for both of us. So 10 miles return...it's not like I'm asking for the moon and back!?!
Bear in mind this is the woman who went from Manchester to Newcastle via Scotland because she thought the Sat nav wasn't trustworthy enough. And the woman who cannot understand that if you usually turn right off the motorway to get somewhere that if you come from the other direction that you need to turn LEFT. Turning right will just get you lost!!!!!
So....AIBU????? Honestly....sometimes she makes me wonder if I am just missing something completely!!!!
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niceguy2 · 13/05/2013 15:00
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