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To want to stick his twunting hairdryer up his bottom?

239 replies

ChocolateTeacup · 23/08/2011 16:57

I apologise if the title offends.

I have a (not so D)H who is working very hard at the moment, Leaving the house around 10am back around 10pm

Last night I was feeling very drained from a tough day with the boys aged 3 & 4 as they had been whiny and clingy, I had earlier gone out to the site to deliver donuts and drinks to him and his friends who are working together on a big project. Came home made dinner, put his in the microwave ready for him and sent a message saying I was going to bed. He replied ok

Then he comes in storms in the bedroom ( I was asleep) going why the hell are you in bed?? where am I supposed to get dry after my shower (rather than dry himself with a towel, he spends around an hour with a hairdryer blasting him whilst he fiddles on his phone) I respond, I was asleep it is one room of the house, use a different one, he grabs the laptop slams the door storms off, comes back and says oh I suppose I will have to sort my dinner as well, i say yes its in the microwave

Shower goes on

Then off

Screw you its my damn house and if I want to relax in my bedroom I will.

At this point I move onto the sofa, not wanting to provoke a big row, figuring fine he is just stressed.

So he gets dry (hairdryer turned full whack) turns the hall light on wakes up the eldest boy, who is happy to see him and he him, bangs and crashes about getting his own dinner. We haven't spoken since.

We have been married 7 years and I still hate the noise of the stupid hairdryer, WIBU to respond to any further rubbish with its insertation? There is another hairdryer that lives in the study, so its not as if I was suggesting he didn't use the stupid thing

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LindyHemming · 24/08/2011 06:45

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BlackadderWentForthToMultiply · 24/08/2011 05:11

is this what happens to married men? they become unable to read messages, then they start being mean to their partners and using hair dryers to do a towels job?

forget insertion. this geezer needs a kick in the nuts!

now blokes don't usually go around condemning another fellows jewels to a beating but this defo warrants a blow to the balls. do it and then explain your actions whist he is on the floor. negative reinforcement. if he wants to behave like a doofus he should be treated as such.

nectarina · 24/08/2011 04:19

I can't sleep now because of the crazy image of your DP with a hairdryer. But i agree that its not the issue - he's clearly selfish and disrespctful. I'm wondering if his routines leave any time for you to spend together, and i'm imagining that he can't be doing his fair share of chores or even spending time with the kids.
I am disgusted that he would deliberately stomp about and shout at you when you are asleep - am i alone in thinking this is abusive?

MrsDistinctlyMintyMonetarism · 24/08/2011 03:29

I tell you, Mumsnet has opened my eyes over the years, but this...

Grin Confused Grin

maras2 · 24/08/2011 03:19

Seriously,I think that he needs professional help.Surely you can see that this is not normal behaviour.I don't mean to sound unkind but why do you put up with this ?Please take the advice that's been offered to you on this thread.I'm worrying about you now, not sure why but something about his wierdness is making me uneasy.Good luck to you for the future. Mx.

CheerfulYank · 24/08/2011 02:54

Huh. I just...well, huh.

I'm stumped.

Thumbwitch · 24/08/2011 02:48

Yeah but, I bet he wouldn't do taht to you at 10pm gone at night, would he Apocalypse? Which takes him out of the Complete Fucking Arse category, unlike the OP's H, who is a fully paid-up member.

Towels are great. OP, your H is a knob. A selfish, immature knob at that.

DecapitatedLegoman · 24/08/2011 02:47
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HansieMom · 24/08/2011 02:24

This guy has OCD. I bet he thinks towels are dirty so he is not going to use one. Using the hair dryer to dry is stupid and please tell him I said so. Also a 15 minute shower? That's long. He warms his clothes before putting them on? He needs to toughen up. Be a man, not a namby pamby.

ZacharyQuack · 24/08/2011 02:08

He has two showers a day? So he spends two hours a day drying himself?

God how boring.

Can you get an industrial tumble drier and just pop him in for 15 minutes? He might shrink a bit the first few times.

MrsMilton · 24/08/2011 01:57

I once went out with a guy who showered before going to bed at night but didn't bother drying off because he didn't "trust" towels. Said they were full of germs. Instead he would just get straight into bed, dripping wet. He couldn't see why this was odd. He said fidgeting around in the duvet had him dry in a few minutes and what was the big deal?

ApocalypseCheeseToastie · 23/08/2011 23:58

I got there in the end

Plus i'm a wee bit squiffy thanks to the bottle of rum sat next to me Wink

blackeyedsusan · 23/08/2011 23:55

selfish bastard.

selfish to you, such applling behaviour and sense of entitlement.

selfish to the children

selfish to the rest of the planet with such profligaate use of electricity, probably so selfish he would not care if ti was pointed out to him.

BreakOutTheKaraoke · 23/08/2011 23:55

Apocalypse- it only took you four hours to cave and admit. You'd be no good under torture!

VictorGollancz · 23/08/2011 23:52

The first time my partner had a shower at my place he paraded out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist, as is normal and accepted - but he'd accessorised with a natty cape that he'd fashioned from a second towel. He looked like Sherlock Holmes, if the great detective favoured white-ish cotton.

I pissed myself. He still does it and I still laugh. If he'd whipped out a hairdryer I probably would have given myself some sort of laughter-induced injury.

ApocalypseCheeseToastie · 23/08/2011 23:50

Ok, ok.

Dp os hairy, very, very hairy. Because of this when he gets a shower he doesn't dry for some time, it's especially awful if he gets into bed straight after, like cuddling up to a damp sponge.

Anyways, because of this I dry him Blush

With the hairdryer Blush

As he changes direction like a chicken being basted on a spit BlushBlush

I also LOVE warming my feet up with the hairdryer Blush

FetchezLaVache · 23/08/2011 23:44

My ex used to dry himself with a hairdryer too. Well, just his bits, actually. It was part of his morning routine. I'd be in the bedroom getting dressed and doing my make-up, and in he'd walk with a towel wrapped round his waist. He would then pick up my hairdryer, switch it on (I'm not sure what setting he preferred) and aim it up his towel skirt, all the while looking at me as if daring me to object.

As I say, he's my ex.

pictish · 23/08/2011 23:40

Erm....my dh sometimes dries off with a hairdryer.....never struck me as being particularly weird, but there you go....

OP - hairdryers aside, he was a fucking arse to you.

StealthPolarBear · 23/08/2011 23:33

c'mon Apocalypse, spill

CardyMow · 23/08/2011 23:30

OMG and I thought Ex-DP was weird! No, OP, YWNBU to insert said hairdryer in a convenient orifice. AND I would have tipped his dinner over his head. Your DH has big ISHOOS!

rhondajean · 23/08/2011 22:57

Just read through this and cant stop laughing. The cotton bud thing in particular put the toenail clipping I found under the coffee table into perspective.

OPs hubby does sound strange. Hes also had a bad day and hes lucky he isnt married to me or he would have had one less hairy bit to dry for waking me up and shouting at me.

However Im sure I remember some celeb of the Paris Hilton ilk getting a huge walk through drier installed in their bathroom cos they were worried about the cleanliness of using towels (it looked like a huge hand drier or one of the step in driers they have at Alton Towers and my local swimming pool).

Is it a hygiene thing with him?

landrover · 23/08/2011 22:49

bump for more laughter

shuffleballchange · 23/08/2011 20:00

Ah men are strange sometimes. But really? Waking you up? That in itself allows insertion of something. My husband knows better than to wake me up. he does some wanky things sometimes but waking me up would have dire consequences.

Surely he must burn himself occasionally with the hairdryer? I'm going to try it tomorrow, it might be fun.

He does deserves some praise though for being able to multi-task, hairdrying AND fiddling with mobile............................

HuntForGalaxyHazelnut · 23/08/2011 19:52

Obviously
The cotton bud thread seems to have been deleted. A poster's husband had an itchy bottom and was relieving himself by sticking cotton buds up there and then leaving the soiled cotton buds around the house (including on her bedside table).

It was horrible.

MadameOvary · 23/08/2011 19:51

YY film it covertly and put it on Youtube