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AIBU?

To want to hit dp over the head with the shovel he used to dig out a path in the garden and then announced the job was too big and left it half done?

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weebleswobble · 03/08/2007 19:58

I'm plucking mad!!!!

He tells me he'll put a path in from the patio to the garden gate as I only have wonky stepping stones. He plans it, tells me the materials to get, starts digging - then when I go out to get the slabs, sand etc., he phones me to say the job's too big and isn't carrying on.

I'm left with a 5 foot long, 3ft wide grave. If I dig a bit more, he'll fit in

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browniedropout · 03/08/2007 20:02

bit more info needed... where is he?.... working, doing other job, in pub?

weebleswobble · 03/08/2007 20:04

He came inside, sat down, and watched the racing .

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Pan · 03/08/2007 20:04

oooh Annoying.

But who's idea was it? The drving instigator?

and for a fee I'll come round and finish it off!

Kewcumber · 03/08/2007 20:04

pmsl - you were a bit slow you needed to have been there when he finished diggin to give him a good push. Tis hell dragging ddead bodies around the place, though good exercise.

weebleswobble · 03/08/2007 20:05

It was his idea! I was worried because he's generally a diy disaster zone, but he insisted. If only I'd whacked him with the shovel before he started....

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weebleswobble · 03/08/2007 20:07

I've rang the professionals and they're coming on the weekend to give me a quote. Any willing diggers/path layers welcome. Fees and refreshments provided with a

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Pan · 03/08/2007 20:08

ah!

get prices for the finished job, present it to him saying it comes out of his spends.

Pan · 03/08/2007 20:08

X-geniuses.

weebleswobble · 03/08/2007 20:10

...I haven't finished ranting yet...

He tells me later on that he knows he fucked-up in the garden earlier but he didn't think that was any reason for me to have the hump...as I was painting the dcs bedroom!!!!

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WaynettaSlob · 03/08/2007 20:13

Kew I'm nominating you for quote of the week: "Tis hell dragging ddead bodies around the place, though good exercise. "

Pan · 03/08/2007 20:15

I suspect this one of those conversations that the bloke thinks has finished at some stage, but he doesn't know it will be a regular feature of exchanges for about oooh..2 years, though in a different form.

He's a bit like Arsenal..no defence.

Kewcumber · 03/08/2007 20:16

its true though - bloody hard work (at least thats what I've been told )

weebleswobble · 03/08/2007 20:17

2 years? I'm no lightweight

On the dragging him into the grave, I'm going to need a little help. He's 6' 3" and about 20 stone. About 10 of us should be able to manage

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coppertop · 03/08/2007 20:20

Sorry WW but I'm PMSL at this thread.

In answer to the thread title - no YANBU - not that I'd dare say otherwise when you have a shovel nearby and are not afraid to use it.

Leati · 03/08/2007 20:23

Yeah my yard is torn up too. Granted that it was my brother and I paid him to do my yard, that did the tearing up. Then one day he stopped and has yet to finish it(its been months.) Finally, I reminded him the other day(I paid you and now my yard is tore up). He reasurred me he would do it and then promptly left.

Pan · 03/08/2007 20:24

no thread is complete without pedant alert...

isn't 'I have rung' the correct past tense to use here???

weebleswobble · 03/08/2007 20:25

Pan, I don't suppose you are 5 x 3 per chance?

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Pan · 03/08/2007 20:26

!!

I may be wrong. Just a diverting thought at this difficult time.....

weebleswobble · 03/08/2007 20:27

On the up-side of course, if we have some rain I could chuck in a couple of fish and hey presto! A pond!

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WaynettaSlob · 03/08/2007 20:28

Pan (creeps in looking over shoulder and whispers.....) you're right. I rang or I've rung.....
I'll get me coat.

weebleswobble · 03/08/2007 20:29

Leati, I feel your pain

Waynetta - 5 x 3?

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kookaburra · 03/08/2007 20:47

WW, YTANBU , but sorry I am PMSL becuae it is just SOOO real. Love the idea of him having almost but not quite dug his own grave....RTell him yo expedct MAJOR spoiling before yo can even begin to thinka baout fogiving him.

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kookaburra · 03/08/2007 20:47

I mean YANBU

weebleswobble · 03/08/2007 20:50

I am starting to see the attraction of a grave in the garden now I have blurred my vision with a hefty slug of raspberry vodka and tonic.

He bought me a kebab for dinner to save me cooking after I have been painting half the day - seems surprised that I'm not rushing up for that early night

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kookaburra · 03/08/2007 20:55

I'd tell him if he wants an early night he can be your sex slave tomorrow, when he has finshed the path...

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