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to expect b/f to help me move the old washing machine...

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SuGaRCoAteDPoiSOn · 01/05/2007 00:30

ready for the new one to arrive tomorrow?

I've shifted it as far as I can and unplumbed it but I can't get enough oomph to drag it up the hallway to the garage by myself and he's just sitting on the pc doing fukk all

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SuGaRCoAteDPoiSOn · 01/05/2007 17:17

yup.. it sucks to be without a machine. I was lucky in tht I watched the installation of the last machine and it wasn't that long ago so I remembered how it went

He's just come in from work, big cheesy grin and "ohh it's lovely to have a WM again isn't it?"

My response was.. "what do you care, it hasn't impacted on you in any way not to have one, if it did I bet it would have been a lot less than 4 months and you'd have gotten involved in the argument with Servis"

he gave me a dirty look, muttered about having fun at work all day.. and stomped off to the bedroom, lmfao

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stleger · 01/05/2007 14:54

You have to read the instructions book about removing packing bolts. I had a handyman to hook mine up as dh is not good at things like that - paid with dh's cash! I was without a machine for 3 weeks, it is the pits!

Jomist · 01/05/2007 14:43

You might accidently spill bleach on the t-shirt in your rush to get it into the new machine

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SuGaRCoAteDPoiSOn · 01/05/2007 14:42

its really easy to plumb in if you have the connections from a previous machine, just hook up the pipes and plug it in

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SuGaRCoAteDPoiSOn · 01/05/2007 14:41

4 months without a washing machine meant I am indeed keen to use it!! I've been handwashing things all that time I've held off this long because I've been in dispute with the manufacturer of the old one (it died at 13 months old )

I really am seriously considering dumping him now, well, have been for a while really but this is making me really think about it. He just had the cheek to msg me on msn and ask me to put his favourite t-shirt in the wash!! He's also buggering off to visit his parents this weekend, leaving me to sort out the chaos that will ensue with the installation of our new bedroom furniture on friday.. he's even booked thursday, friday and tuesday off work to make sure he wont have to be around!

lazy is not the word!

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heifer · 01/05/2007 13:42

Well done you... You must be really keen to try it out - I would have left it there until he got home at least... (but then I am not sure I would have been able to plumb it in myself)..

Can't believe he hung up on you.. perhaps you have wounded his male pride... hehe

TheDuchessOfNorksBride · 01/05/2007 13:23

I agree with Jomist.

And well done Sugar. Top plumbing there.

moondog · 01/05/2007 13:19

God

Caligula · 01/05/2007 12:55

God I'd dump him.

I know that sounds a bit mumsnet kneejerk "get rid of him immediately darling" whenever he's burnt the toast, but really, that level of laziness would make me want to murder him. Who needs a man? Well, not one like that you obviously don't, so why keep him around? Is he particularly decorative or useful for something else which another man wouldn't be?

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SuGaRCoAteDPoiSOn · 01/05/2007 12:44

I am soo proud of myself

I managed to move the old one, plumb in the new one and it's working perfectly

handyman came round and was amazed - he gave me a tarpaulin and helped cover up the old one and he's gone off for his lunch now, lol

who needs a man?? NOT ME!!!

b/f called up and asked about it - said he'd move it when he comes home and set up the new one, so I told him i've already done it cos I'm sick of waitng for him to help with anything and he got shirty n hung up on me

muhahahahhahahahahha sometimes life is gooooooood

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LazyLineCodKiller · 01/05/2007 12:03

I think swapsies with the handyman is called for

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SuGaRCoAteDPoiSOn · 01/05/2007 09:06

lmfao.. noooooooooooooo he doesn't!
he's got a wife n everything, just she lives in Cambridge while he lives in London so he doesn't see an awful lot of her.

Anyway.. I now have two washing machines in my kitchen I would plumb the new one in but I can't get the flippin transit bolts undone, lmfao

I'm desperate to play with the new one because I've been without a WM for 4 months and been handwashing everything. I've got a dispute going on with Servis about the old one so I cant just dump it and I wanna plaaaaaaaaaaay!!

God I'm useless

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heifer · 01/05/2007 09:00

I think the handyman fancies you.. he is being very very helpful....

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SuGaRCoAteDPoiSOn · 01/05/2007 08:32

I'm with you all laydees.. this is the final straw.

There's a long list of other stuff which I posted about elsewhere but I've had enough now and he can pack his bags and fuck off.

Handyman is going to pop in later to help, hopefully before the one arrives.. and he said he'd plumb that in for me too if it's here when he has his lunchbreak

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heifer · 01/05/2007 08:27

Had to admit I would seriouly consider binning such a man....

If he is like this now - just imagine how lazy he would be in years to come....

It's not just the lazyness that annoys me, but the selfishness, he must have realised that it would be very inconvient to have the washing machine in the middle of the room etc..

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SuGaRCoAteDPoiSOn · 01/05/2007 08:23

he's gone to work.. so he's sat at his desk with a great big starbucks coffee playing online games til everyone else arrives around 9

I don't know why I bother anymore.. I think this is a relationship that's run its course.

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Jomist · 01/05/2007 08:21

Oh yes, lazyarse out! Fab handyman in! Probably the best move any woman could made

bozza · 01/05/2007 08:20

Agree with moondog.

moondog · 01/05/2007 08:17

Where is he now?
God,he sounds awfu;l.Why are you bothering with him?

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SuGaRCoAteDPoiSOn · 01/05/2007 08:14

lol, our handyman is fab... he's done loads of extra jobs for me and never ever comments.. he's coming next week to assemble my new wardrobes when they are finally delivered and he spent a whole saturday afternoon trying to repair my old washing machine.

P'raps I should move him in and move the lazyarse out

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SuGaRCoAteDPoiSOn · 01/05/2007 08:12

yup........ he's always like this.. talks up how helpful he is/will be and then sits on his arse and does fukk all, or if he does do anything, he does such a shite job that I have to go and redo it anyway

then has the nerve to say I'm lazy!

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heifer · 01/05/2007 08:12

And I really really hate lazy people!

colditz · 01/05/2007 08:11

Tell your handy man your husband just couldn't lift it. He will then feel compelled to prove himself manlier than your husband, and will do it for you.

heifer · 01/05/2007 08:11

twunt..

I hate lasy men (or women come to that)...

LazyLineCodKiller · 01/05/2007 08:08

What an asshat