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Your favourite unreasonable AIBU?

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Fulbe · 29/07/2025 23:21

There are so many wonderful examples of these, please share your favourites. Bonus points for links.

I remember one when OP was annoyed if the cost of children's birthday gifts weren't higher than the cost of hosting the party per child.

And the classic from a few weeks ago when OP thought it was ok to block the shared driveway and thought their neighbour who lived at the end was the unreasonable one.

I bet there are better ones out there though...

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jumpingthehighjump · 31/07/2025 11:52

My favourite from yonks ago so can't find it...

Family have been on an outing, lots of them in either an estate car with lots of seats in the back or a minivan. Kids, siblings, mum, dad, granny, aunt etc. Arrive home, everyone piles out, but the wife/Mum who is sat in the back doesn't. She stays sat in the car/van for some reason. They all go inside and no one comes back out to say to her 'come on, get out the car' so she stays sat there and no one in her family cares about her and that she is still in the back of the minivan and how dare they leave her in the car/van that she can get out of, but doesn't!

There were some cracking replies! It really was Where's Kevin Home Alone except this was a grown woman.... 😂

PerfectTuesday · 31/07/2025 11:51

Gwenhwyfar · 31/07/2025 11:26

Hardly important now is it?

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I disagree - despite the ultimate betrayal and tragic end of the Franks and their companions, the historical account of mundane details of daily life in the Annexe as documented by Anne, and discussion in the 21st Century about what life was like in hiding, remains very important.

This kind of detail brings to life the realities for Jews in German-occupied countries in a way that second-hand accounts or factual information can never do, and will continue to do so, hopefully, for new generations of people to whom 'WW2' will be something in the distant past rather than something their parents or grandparents lived through.

ipickedupapen · 31/07/2025 11:50

Anything with a diagram, preferably hand drawn

If not, a photo

KarmaKameelion · 31/07/2025 11:47

The woman who wanted her step daughter to stay in a hotel at Christmas because her adult children were too sensitive to noise. And then drip fed in that the house was actually mortgage free due to first wife’s (step daughters mother) untimely death and was the step daughters family home where she grew up

TitaniasAss · 31/07/2025 11:33

SmurfnoffIce · 31/07/2025 09:01

Ooh, haven’t been able to find that one in ages! I might indulge later 😄 I’d forgotten the bit about her being sick!

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Oh I'd forgotten about this one, this was so ridiculous. I wonder if they talk to the OP now.

Gwenhwyfar · 31/07/2025 11:26

PerfectTuesday · 30/07/2025 18:39

It was very rough on Anne, going through puberty, to have to share with a middle-aged man (and probably embarrassing for Fritz too). Since Mr and Mrs Frank already had their privacy compromised by sharing with Margot, I agree that arrangement would have made sense

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Hardly important now is it?

TitaniasAss · 31/07/2025 11:25

Hotflushesandchilblains · 30/07/2025 16:28

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3178898-DH-embarrassed-by-my-sensitivity

This was absolute gold. I remember it so well and can't believe it was so long ago!.

ExercicenformedeZ · 31/07/2025 11:22

LittleCosette · 31/07/2025 09:41

I honestly don’t see what she is being unreasonable about. I’m not trying to be obtuse I might have missed something.

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She is being unreasonable to have kept having children with a deadbeat and then moan and complain and blame the children. I felt awful for those poor kids. I'm afraid it wasn't amusing the way most of these are on this thread, so it might be out of place on that way, but she struck me as one of the most frustrating posters I'd seen on Mumsnet.

Icanttakethisanymore · 31/07/2025 11:09

familylawyer01392 · 31/07/2025 11:03

it is so funny, she called me a bully hahha

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I casually added my very uninteresting response to the original OP on about page 4 then filtered by OP's comments and realised that it had morphed into something far more fraught than I had realised 😬Those darn receipts (or lack of them, I can't remember which) 😆

LittleCosette · 31/07/2025 11:03

Shellspinksand · 30/07/2025 23:56

Oh please someone find me the link to this! Sounds mental

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She was such a terrible host and could not understand why he wouldn’t want to do his own thing, in a country he hadn’t visited before, while she hung out with friends.

familylawyer01392 · 31/07/2025 11:03

Icanttakethisanymore · 30/07/2025 17:11

omg - i was just reading that one. It really escalated 😂

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it is so funny, she called me a bully hahha

popcornpower2025 · 31/07/2025 10:42

steff13 · 30/07/2025 23:07

Oh my gosh, that was the one where people asked her what she did all day and she was like, "I pet the cat, I looked at the flowers, I took a breath..." 😂

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Oh and she 'works with meat' when cooking, don't forgot. That poster had several mad threads in short succession. She was posting pictures of her house at one point

FastFood · 31/07/2025 10:39

PixiePuffBall · 30/07/2025 16:17

The one who refused to say why her child would be sharing a room with their uncle in the holiday home... so that an empty room could be used if someone got ill. Or something

oh my god this one still keeps me awake at night

GentleJadeOP · 31/07/2025 10:35

The one about the bare fanny on the changing room bench

GentleJadeOP · 31/07/2025 10:33

SandyLanes · 30/07/2025 16:52

The one currently going on about till receipts. The OP is getting a bit het up!

Agreed! So funny

Cattenberg · 31/07/2025 10:31

Katebridgerton25 · 31/07/2025 07:55

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4929335-how-can-my-brother-salvage-this-situation

the poster was so entitled! Wouldn’t listen to anyone

I remember that one! The OP couldn't accept that her brother had overplayed his hand and that his ex didn't want to house and feed him and his kids any more. Of course, the OP really didn't want him moving back in with her...

Famallama · 31/07/2025 10:26

This one where the OP was deeply offended by her 'selfish' friend asking to see her made me LOL.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5248443-to-say-this-is-selfish-from-my-friend?page=1

chipsticksmammy · 31/07/2025 10:20

PerfectTuesday · 31/07/2025 10:19

If Mr Frank and Mr Pfeffer had had the room shared by Anne and Mr Pfeffer they would have had separate beds - but Anne's bed seems to have been quite small as she wrote of it being extended by having a chair at the end, if I recall correctly; and Anne herself was small, I think she gives her weight as 7 stone something, so possibly her bed wouldn't have worked at all for a male adult.

I suppose ultimately, however awkward and uncomfortable the sleeping arrangements were in the Annexe, all the occupants knew that at their very worst, they were a million times better than the alternative, so they put up with it.

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Yes, I think sleeping arrangements were the LEAST of their worries....

chipsticksmammy · 31/07/2025 10:19

chipsticksmammy · 31/07/2025 10:17

Shout out to my favorite jigsaw of all time. Whoever drew this knew what they were doing and its NOT very Christian....

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Noah%C2%A1%C2%AEs-1000pc-Jigsaw-Puzzle-Dowdle/dp/B004V0I42Q

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PerfectTuesday · 31/07/2025 10:19

Cattenberg · 31/07/2025 09:48

I used to think the same! But I think Mr Frank and Mr Pfeffer would have had to have shared a bed, so there was no ideal solution.

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If Mr Frank and Mr Pfeffer had had the room shared by Anne and Mr Pfeffer they would have had separate beds - but Anne's bed seems to have been quite small as she wrote of it being extended by having a chair at the end, if I recall correctly; and Anne herself was small, I think she gives her weight as 7 stone something, so possibly her bed wouldn't have worked at all for a male adult.

I suppose ultimately, however awkward and uncomfortable the sleeping arrangements were in the Annexe, all the occupants knew that at their very worst, they were a million times better than the alternative, so they put up with it.

chipsticksmammy · 31/07/2025 10:17

Shout out to my favorite jigsaw of all time. Whoever drew this knew what they were doing and its NOT very Christian....

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Noah%C2%A1%C2%AEs-1000pc-Jigsaw-Puzzle-Dowdle/dp/B004V0I42Q

Cattenberg · 31/07/2025 09:48

RoseaPlena · 30/07/2025 16:43

It's quite a few years ago now but I still remember the woman who was furious with the sharing arrangements devised by the Frank family in hiding- obviously Mrs Frank should have gone in with the girls and Fritz Pfeffer with Otto. Pure madness (or maybe conspiracy theorist).

I used to think the same! But I think Mr Frank and Mr Pfeffer would have had to have shared a bed, so there was no ideal solution.