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AIBU?

to be a bit narked that my builders used my crystal champagne glasses?

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spicemonster · 19/09/2009 20:49

I'm having loads of work done to my flat and it has meant no kitchen for 8 weeks. I have created a vague approximation of a kitchen in my living room with a microwave and teeny oven on the dining table. There is a very small selection of cups/glasses/plates in a trolley next to that, all of which are plastic. The trolley is currently hidden behind an 8m piece of worktop and a) the builders put it there and b) by wiggling and a bit of jiggery pokery I can extract plates and glasses.

There are a pair of handblown crystal glasses on the shelves behind said dining table, with barley sugar stems. They live there the whole time.

AIBU to think it's a bit bloody much that the builders didn't bother finding some other receptacles to drink their wine in (I smelt the dregs) but instead clambered over the table and took my very beautiful glasses from the shelf and drank from those or am I being a silly old bag? In the interests of not being accused of AIBU by stealth, I should also say that my built in cooker is currently jammed against the table so it's a struggle to even reach the microwave. Incidentally they have left said glasses for me to wash up (in the bathroom sink I might add).

If IANBU, should I say something???

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ib · 19/09/2009 20:50

Why the hell were the builders drinking wine in your house?

bigchris · 19/09/2009 20:50

er.... why are they drinking wine at your place?

diddl · 19/09/2009 20:51

Can you sack them?

Trikken · 19/09/2009 20:52

Yanbu, but maybe they didnt have anything else to use for drink, just mention to them where the plastic ones are so that next time they wont have to use them. I would be upset too tho.

Trikken · 19/09/2009 20:53

omg i didnt notice the wine part, thats the worst bit!

Wonderstuff · 19/09/2009 20:53

YANBU.

spicemonster · 19/09/2009 20:57

I don't mind them drinking wine at the end of the day (is that weird?) but those glasses are a bit precious. I can't buy replacements so I only ever use them on very special occasions

I can't sack them. They are nearly, nearly finished. And then they will be gone and I can breathe a huge sigh ............

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southeastastra · 19/09/2009 20:58

it's very weird builder behaviour

Ponders · 19/09/2009 20:59

Hide the glasses upstairs somewhere so they can't use them again (& breathe a huge sigh of relief that they survived the experience! )

Ponders · 19/09/2009 21:00

oh sorry, you said it's a flat so no upstairs presumably. Hide them under your bed then!

Littlefish · 19/09/2009 21:22

Builders drinking wine at the end of the day is absolutely not normal.

Builders using your wine glasses to drink said wine is absolutely not on.

I would be having very strong words with the main builder, whether they've nearly finished or not.

They are taking the piss.

MmeLindt · 19/09/2009 21:25

Gosh, you have posh builders.

Any builders I have known have been strictly beer only. Apologies to any wine drinking builders out there for my appalling snobbery.

Hide the glasses and leave the plastic glasses out on a tray. I don't know if I would say anything if they are so close to finishing.

spicemonster · 19/09/2009 22:16

It's my friend's boyfriend who is doing the work so that makes it all a little awkward. I don't mind if he has a glass of wine (or two) but just am beginning to think he's starting to take the piss a bit.

I am beginning to buy into that don't hire friends maxim now ... He's done a really good job by and large but his mate is a moron and has damaged a couple of things which aren't easily fixed over the course of all this. Aargh - it's all so frustrating/annoying/disappointing.

I will put plastic glasses out tomorrow. Just wished they'd not used them in the first place!

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GirlsAreLOud · 19/09/2009 22:20

See I'm more worried about whether they drove home after drinking the wine!

2shoes · 19/09/2009 22:23

proper builders should not dirnk when working, buat as you have hired family , that doesn't apply

MaryMotherOfCheeses · 19/09/2009 22:23

Arf.

why on earth are you bothered by which glasses they used? It's not as though they broke one is it?

Of course, builders should only be allowed to drink tea. By law.

spicemonster · 19/09/2009 22:28

They are clumsy buggers that's why I care. And because I would be amazed if any of my friends used one of those glasses unless it was a massively raucous party - they are on a high bookshelf. And dusty

Not family, a friend's boyfriend. I'd never met him before he started doing the work. But no driving involved as we are in London and he comes on the tube

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hambler · 19/09/2009 22:32

agree with mary.
Tea.
it's the law.
They could go to jail

2shoes · 19/09/2009 22:34

get it right
tea (cheap tea) in a chipped mug

Ponders · 19/09/2009 22:37

Don't give them Earl Grey though - they'll be sick & then come & complain that the tea tastes of fairy liquid

hambler · 19/09/2009 22:37

with six sugars and LOTS of milk (full fat)

GetOrfMoiLand · 19/09/2009 22:38

Am I the only one laughing at this thread title?

OP - it's your fault for not stocking up on yorkshire tea

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MaryMotherOfCheeses · 19/09/2009 22:38

Wine in dusty glasses?

Eeeeew. You need a better class of builder, clearly.

what type of wine was it and did they leave any for you?

electra · 19/09/2009 22:40

YANBU - cheeky buggers!

spicemonster · 19/09/2009 22:53

They don't seem to drink tea, builders or otherwise (I loathe Earl Grey and only have Yorkshire in the house incidentally). I know that the thread title is funny. But I only have two nice glasses too and those are they. The whole thing would be funny if I hadn't been trapped in my living room and DS's bedroom for the last two months with a tumble dryer and a fridge freezer taking up 90% of the available floor space. And now the cat has stood on the laptop keyboard and yanked off two keys when I pulled her off.

sigh I am not liking this building bollocks at all. It's pants and my tether is ended

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