Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

Panto in an hour, guess what my husband is doing ?

144 replies

haretodaygonelater · 26/12/2024 12:19

Pulling up the patio as the slabs are uneven! I mean yeah it needs done, but today!!

OP posts:
pinkdelight · 26/12/2024 12:59

Uh oh, you mightn't make it to the panto if he's got nefarious plans for you and that patio.

ObtuseMoose · 26/12/2024 12:56

If it was a choice between panto and pulling up paving slabs I know which one I'd choose!

SoNiceToComeHomeTo · 26/12/2024 12:41

ThePure · 26/12/2024 12:30

My DH spent all morning on Christmas Eve putting up fairy lights on the patio and then announced he was going to clean the living room windows (and even though it was by now dark). Meanwhile I am running around like a blue arsed fly cleaning bathrooms, changing sheets and hoovering because his bloody family are coming to stay.

Bloke priorities.

How interesting, I'm glad it is not just my DH. The first time we hosted 12 of his relatives for a family get together, he insisted on spending the morning trimming a lilac bush that was overhanging the path down to the bottom of the garden, just in case anyone wanted to go there. I tried to explain they were more likely to want something to eat and a chair to sit on, but he was adamant.

TheArtfulScreamer1 · 26/12/2024 12:38

username299 · 26/12/2024 12:33

My dad was worse. My mum would be standing by the door and he would be running a bath.

Is that you Dave? My dad was exactly the same!

MissMarplesNiece · 26/12/2024 12:37

@ThePure I was thinking of bloke priorities this morning as I cleaned the bathroom, vacuumed, tidied kitchen, prepared nibbles etc ready for visitors later this morning. Meanwhile DH rearranged books on a shelf as his contribution.

Itsaswelltime · 26/12/2024 12:35

If you get time, read the short story, The Way Up To Heaven (widely available to read online).

Itsaswelltime · 26/12/2024 12:34

If someone invited me to a pantomime, I would start looking for the most out of date food gift (on MN everyone seems to receive some biscuits or chocolates datestamped 1995) and gobbling it in the hope of falling dangerously ill and being unable to attend. However as the panto is in 1 hour that’s pretty annoying of your DH and presumably the tickets weren’t cheap.

username299 · 26/12/2024 12:33

My dad was worse. My mum would be standing by the door and he would be running a bath.

Snazzysausage · 26/12/2024 12:32

Ah, ignore my post,I missed what he was actually doing!
🤦

CaptainAwkward · 26/12/2024 12:31

Is he behind you?

ThePure · 26/12/2024 12:30

My DH spent all morning on Christmas Eve putting up fairy lights on the patio and then announced he was going to clean the living room windows (and even though it was by now dark). Meanwhile I am running around like a blue arsed fly cleaning bathrooms, changing sheets and hoovering because his bloody family are coming to stay.

Bloke priorities.

Pamosonic · 26/12/2024 12:30

Yep he's basically indicating he doesn't want to go to the panto.

Original poster
haretodaygonelater · 26/12/2024 12:27

I love the panto comeback!

I honestly do not know how his brain works. To be fair he doesn't do the long bathroom trips!

OP posts:
vodkaredbullgirl · 26/12/2024 12:27

Tell him he will be under it if he doesn't stop 😆

AnotherDelphinium · 26/12/2024 12:26

Oh no he isn't! 😅

Snazzysausage · 26/12/2024 12:26

In the bathroom on the toilet at a guess,having a festive clear out. 🤔🎄

Motnight · 26/12/2024 12:24

How thoughtful.of him preparing his final resting place 😬

IKnowAristotle · 26/12/2024 12:23

Tell him to leave the patio alone otherwise he won't have time to do a 35 minute poo.

CharlotteStreetW1 · 26/12/2024 12:20

Reminds me of the time I cleaned the car to avoid doing the ironing.

Swipe left for the next trending thread