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Oh for goodness sake. I have a crush on the builder

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Keyra · 29/10/2018 09:25

I’m such a cliche - middle aged sahm crushing on the builder. I need strategies to look busy and keep out of the way. Blush

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picklemepumpkin · 30/10/2018 13:34

At this rate, you should get to peak just in time for Christmas! Excellent!

Mummy6661 · 30/10/2018 13:35

make up an excuse to talk to the fit one. Why dont you drop a hint such as ' bet your kids have been driving oyu crazy during half term,bet your wife is struggling....' ;)

Dowser · 30/10/2018 13:37

My cousin married her builder.
You might have to treat him gently though...they often have bad backs.

Love this thread. We haven’t had a good MN thread for ages

MintyT · 30/10/2018 13:38

My husband is a builder. You house will never be finished,

sadsadsady · 30/10/2018 13:39

@MintyT mine too.

It's a fucking nightmare! We just approach one room finally being done and the bugger pops another on the house! 

sadsadsady · 30/10/2018 13:42

No don't say obvious stuff like that!!!

He'll smell it a mile off.

Make plans to go out somewhere nice, so you have to get all dressed up. Or just prentend you are. Flounce around the house all excited then leave in a cloud of mysterious parfume. And maybe a swishy scarf for high drama.

CurlyhairedAssassin · 30/10/2018 13:44

Oh OP, it’s easy to find out if they’ve got a significant other. So, when he replied “I don’t have any, thanks,” to your question about children re toys, I would have said “does your wife or girlfriend know anyone who could use these?”

Or when they’ve put in a really hard day you just say “have you got a nice big meal waiting for you at home after all that work do you think?” Then he might say, “yes, I live wirh my mum, she still spoils me like I’m 12 ha ha” or he could say “nah, the missus cooks but i’ll Be first home” etc etc

Therr are ways and means without it making you look like a perv with your tongue hanging out.

sadsadsady · 30/10/2018 13:45

does your wife or girlfriend know anyone who could use these?

Oh come on! This is SO obvious!!!! She may as well walk past him twiddling her nipples!

sadsadsady · 30/10/2018 13:45

Which could also work.....

Thebluedog · 30/10/2018 13:47

Oh this is brilliant and I’m totally over invested in this thread... but also sat here laughing at Iron Maiden, CSB (considerate shitting builder) Grin and the best one so far ‘oh you’ve taken your top off’

Alienspaceship · 30/10/2018 13:56

I love this thread Grin come on op, be brave. And we need a description of him.

Jakethekid · 30/10/2018 13:59

Twiddling her nipples! Haha! 😂

OP if I was you, this thread would be making me even more embarrassed and giggly around him.

Best one liners in a thread that I have read in a while.

Keyra · 30/10/2018 14:20

I don’t need to be any more embarrassed than I am! I absolutely cannot do anything obvious, I just can’t! I keep having convos with myself about how I’m an adult independent woman who needs to just grasp the bull by the horns etc. But, nope - the inner gauche teenager wins out every time!

Anyway - things are not going to plan. I get home to find a huge delivery lorry dropping off a load of bricks. Have a lovely chat with the driver, offer him tea. Go out the back to offer csb and cb tea. Haven’t met csb up to now so chatting away nicely. Cb comes and joins us and - I dry up completely! Seriously, almost mid sentence I get embarrassed and do the old “er anyway, tea?” To make matters worse, the bloody dog, whose never met the delivery driver, allowed himself to be admired and stroked. He’s met csb once so he gave him a cursory once over. He’s seen csb nearly every day for three weeks - and was barking and yapping away at the poor man, whose never done anything but make a fuss of him!

Description (ok I’ll preface this by saying a) we all have different tastes and b) I’m embarrassed to look at him most of the time): tall, thick spiky hair which is grey yet I think he’s actually quite young (hence confusion over age), lovely intense dark eyes, very fit (well he can shift a lot of soil at least) and, er, a couple of missing teeth Blush. They’re not always missing so he must have insertable ones, and I’m very sorry, I can’t for the life of me think why I find that attractive but I do!

This could be quite identifying so if any of you recognise your dp’s, I’m sorry, I didn’t know!

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sadsadsady · 30/10/2018 14:21

That's my fucking husband! 

Haha. 

sadsadsady · 30/10/2018 14:23

Very interested in the removable teeth!

Alienspaceship · 30/10/2018 14:30

I was thinking ‘move over he’s mine’ until we got to ‘teeth - optional’ Grin

Tattandthis · 30/10/2018 14:31

Leave him alone to do his job without oogling and harassment Angry

sadsadsady · 30/10/2018 14:33

Oh ffs!

sadsadsady · 30/10/2018 14:34

She's hardly brushing his cock accidentally on purpose as she hands him a cuppa!

sadsadsady · 30/10/2018 14:35

Or is she?! Omg, are you the builder?! 🤣

HemanOrSheRa · 30/10/2018 14:37

I don't think the OP is 'oogling' him Confused. That's the whole point. She can hardly look at the guy. Anyway.....

Oh for goodness sake. I have a crush on the builder
Davon · 30/10/2018 14:37

Shock Removable teeth. Nice.

MrsMarigold · 30/10/2018 14:40

Remember the MNer who went on a date with the tradesman a few years ago, it was so exciting, I wondered what happened. OP good luck, I had such a crush on the piano tuner, I've never been able to get him back. Blush

Keyra · 30/10/2018 14:41

Tatt I am leaving him alone, and I wouldn’t know how to ogle if I tried.

Sad I did worry there for a minute.

What can I say about the teeth? False teeth (only 2 of them I think) have never before featured on my list of desirable attributes yet here we are :)

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MrsTerryPratchett · 30/10/2018 14:46

He’s either very shy or he dislikes me

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