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I'm poorly I fancied just grilled salmon - & DH went and got?

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KatyMac · 19/10/2018 13:59

OK I am poorly, I have been off my food

Last night about 10pm I suddenly fancied grilled salmon, mustard brown suagr and soy sauce glaze

No salmon in the freezer

DH went off (to play tennis - important that, not work!) and I asked him to bring some salmon in for me to cook

Came home with no salmon, I'll do a big shop when I collect DD from the train later

I suggested I might need salmon sooner, would he like to do the big shop now or just pop out (5 minutes in the car) to get me some salmon and some nice bread to eat it with

Big discussion ensued & eventually he went

& brought back precooked (can't be heated up again) salmon

We have never had that before ever (important DH only buys what we have had before) never looked at it in the shops or considered it. So it's not hot, it's not marinaded in what I wanted and it probably has things in I'm not allowed (not technically allowed soya sauce either but......I needed a treat)

May I have a temper tantrum?

(can't drive or walk far otherwise I'd go and get my bloody salmon, which tbf I'm not sure I want now after all the discussion)

OP posts:
Chalkhillblu3 · 19/10/2018 15:38

A bit of toast and marmite?

YouBetterWOooOooOoo · 19/10/2018 15:39

I was trapped upstairs doing bf and bed with DD when were visiting relatives. Earlier we'd all got sharebag sweets for later and I specifically said ooo I fancy after eights ones.

Anyway, DH came up to see how I was getting on and said they've already started on the sweets would I like some. Yes, the after eights says I. He goes down and comes back up with a sheepish look on his face and "they've all been eaten. There's buttons left".

The glare he got (along with an exclamation of "what the actual fuck") meant when I was done and could join everyone, a return trip for after eights had already taken place Grin

ShirleyPhallus · 19/10/2018 15:40

vampirethriller that’s horrible, what did your parents say about it?

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Elephant14 · 19/10/2018 15:42

Ooo men, gotta love em - they are soooo FUNNY aren't they?! Doh! OP surely you know that if you have a penis you cannot be expected to complete any task? Did they remove your brain too?!

Women!

Thenewdoctor · 19/10/2018 15:42

Honestly you would annoy me if you carried on like that.

He must have the patience of a saint.

Why can’t your DD get it for you then?

I’d just be grateful to be getting attended to (years as a single parent living alone).

Seriously give your head a wobble, even lightheartedly, and appreciate what you have.

Secretsquirrel252 · 19/10/2018 15:42

When did MN get so many pissy, tone deaf posters? Sorry OP, you didn’t put ‘light hearted’ so the dense and righteous are having a go.

Slap him round the head with a (raw) turbot.

Elephant14 · 19/10/2018 15:45

appreciate what you have - of course, we should all consider ourselves lucky that a man thought we were just the right side of too ugly to shag, and stayed with us. We can't then expect them to function in a relationship AND go to the shop as well. tsk.

nonetcurtains · 19/10/2018 15:46

I may have told this on here before but it still hurts so...
When my DCs were both pre-school age, both poorly, and I had had no sleep for several nights, I fancied a little treat and DH was going to the shop, so I asked him to pick up a cake for me from the bakery next door to the shop.
He knows the kind of cakes I love, he knew I'd want a fresh cream cake, he has eaten cake before, he must have known...
What does he bring back? A box of Mr Kipling Apple pies. Sad
It still hurts now. I often remember it. (Oh and the DC's are now in their 30's).

Thenewdoctor · 19/10/2018 15:46

Go to the shop and bring exactly what was demanded at ten o’clock at night ffs.

diddl · 19/10/2018 15:47

Gosh Op that's all very interesting but no salmon vs maracas??!!

Hope you get your salmon & are starting to feel better soon.

Thenewdoctor · 19/10/2018 15:48

And he brought salmon. And the op is supposed to be intolerant to soy so why would she be putting soy on anyway?

Petillant · 19/10/2018 15:48

Go for it with the tantrum, say I!
And I hope you feel better soon.

Elephant14 · 19/10/2018 15:49

Secretsquirrel - the dense and righteous are having a go - the terminally hard of understanding!!

TatianaLarina · 19/10/2018 15:50

You need Chop Chop OP - Sainsbury’s app - delivers within 1 hour.

I don’t know how I survived without it.

tobee · 19/10/2018 15:52

No wonder the nhs is in crisis with all these mumsnetters having had sense of humour bypasses! 

Op, sympathies. I think you're dealing with the po faced responses marvellously.

Original poster
KatyMac · 19/10/2018 15:52

Hang on - If I have no ovaries does that mean I can't 'hang' every little needs and fancy on "being hormonal" anymore?

Shit: big downside!!

No mincepies/aftereights/chickennoodle0/creamcakess - everyone understands my pain Wink

OP posts:
BreconBeBuggered · 19/10/2018 15:55

Honestly, moaning minnies can piss off. Who amongst us has never willingly traipsed out to Sainsburys to please the delicate palate of an ailing partner? It's Lucozade and oxtail soup in my house, never mind the dead certainty that DH has decided he's recovered far too early and I'll be finding bits of oxtail spew up the walls for a week. OP's had a major operation and can't go and get things herself. If grilled salmon is what she fancies, then grilled salmon is what she needs. At least she won't be picking it out of the bedroom carpet for the rest of the night.

BollocksToBrexit · 19/10/2018 16:03

I get it OP. The other day I was lying on the sofa being lazy recovering from illness and DH was going to the supermarket for something.

"Do yo want anything?" he asked.

"Get me something nice." I said.

He came back with a bunch of flowers. FLOWERS! I was hoping for a doughnut.

tobee · 19/10/2018 16:08

🍩

Nousernameforme · 19/10/2018 16:13

The next morning after having DD I sent DP out for more maternity pads. He came back with maternity pants. Those paper things with the drawstring.
To be fair I can see where the mix up came from but at the time i did that hysterical laughter which turned to crying.

BollocksToBrexit · 19/10/2018 16:15
Grin
BollocksToBrexit · 19/10/2018 16:16

^^ That was to the doughnut not the maternity pants.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 19/10/2018 16:17

I got low calorie frozen yogurt instead of the rum raisin ice cream I asked. I made the bastard eat it to realise how wrong he was.

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fuzzywuzzy · 19/10/2018 16:29

Actually I think this is a big deal.

If I was recovering from an op/common cold/stubbed toe, is totally expect DP to cater to whatever took my fancy.

Because, I’d do the same for him if he was feeling unwell.

When I was recovering from having had our baby DP would get food in which he specifically knew I would want to eat, he is a grown man and used to doing things most of us to do to live our lives, like shop for food, cook and clean etc.

Where do these incompetent men come from? If DP had come home with something random which we never eat when I was unwell and craving a specific food, I’d send him out to try again. Till he go it right.

Next time OP, when he’s sick get him something random when he asks for something straightforward that you always eat. And act all surprised and like he’s unreasonable if he objects.