Faffers

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My dp is a faffer.He gets up for work at 6.30 to leave for 7.20.No kids to get ready only himself,

I got up about 7 this morning,he was running around like a headless chicken.Making sandwiches,and giving out he has no time..

He then stuffed cereal down his gob at 7.10 and ran out the door.
I have no idea what he does with his time.

Zero tolerance here too. My dad has turned into the biggest faffer since he retired. It can literally take an hour from deciding to leave the house to actually getting out the door. I can't bare it.

My dp is a faffer.He gets up for work at 6.30 to leave for 7.20.

I don't see a problem with this. I get up at 6:15 to leave the house at 8:30. Can't be doing with rushing around.

I don't see a problem with this. I get up at 6:15 to leave the house at 8:30. Can't be doing with rushing around

It really
Shouldn’t take 2 hours just to get ready in the morning. My dh is an appalling faffer but even he only takes 1 hour. I can do it in 40 minutes (less if I’m not washing and drying my hair).
Just think of all the wasted time —that you could spend sleeping—

@notso the problem is he moans non stop about it.Either manage your time better or get up earlier.An hour is plenty of time to get yourself ready.

No need for the dramatic groans and moans at 7.15 cause he decided to clean out the ferret cages.

Housemate gets up at 5.30 to leave at 7.30. She doesn't actually do anything, just bimbles around. Mystifies me!

Colleague drives me nuts; as soon as it hits pub o clock on Friday and everyone is getting their coats on, and even though it's been really quiet for the past hour, THAT's when he'll decide to finish an email he started a 10am, tidy his desk, pick things up, move them then put them down...so the whole group ends up waiting for him.

One of the reasons I broke up with someone was because they were a faffer. The blamed it on me because when I said that we had to be somewhere for a specific time I should have stated this and not assumed that they would understand automatically not to be massively late

It really
Shouldn’t take 2 hours just to get ready in the morning.

Maybe I just do more than you. My shower, hair and getting dressed takes 20 mins tops. I like to have a cup of tea in peace before the kids get up.
I also make the lunches, feed the pets, put laundry on and hang it out, unload the dishwasher, do dinner prep, listen to two kids read, make breakfast for usually for 4 DC, tidy the kitchen and clear the way for the robot vacuum. I like to give a bit of leeway for any last minute issues too.

Faffers should be banned.

Me: "ready to go" means I am at the door shoes on and keys in hand. Ready. To. G.

Ex: "ready to go" meant he needs to find shoes, check if he has put deodorant on, has to make tea for the journey, do a quick lesson in Swahili for beginners, tighten the loose doorknob, look up the cost of a some widget he wants, sketch a quick still life, water the plants marinade a chicken and iron his shirts for next week.

@notso but thats NOT faffing... that's just ding your "chores" at the beginning of the day instead of any other time.

My husband is a faffer.... The amount of time spent on the loo.. staring in to space... hes just incredibly slow even walking....

Not according to my DH @Youwanapizzame. He goes on his phone for 40 minutes, showers, dresses, eats and then complains I'm not ready to go because I'm 'faffing'

@notso thats not faffing.And regards to your dh,i bet hes the faffer.He just tries to blame you.Like mine does.

FIL and DH are both faffers.
FIL is terrible.
DH less so but I swear he's got worse over the last year.
I'm trying to nip it in the bud with DS. It's hard to tell whether he's faffing or being 5.
It's the fact that DH always has to do some basic personal care thing at the last second despite us agreeing to leave at a certain time that gets me.
As to the deal breaker bit- we've been together since we were students. Time was more elastic then.

Oh god yes.

I can get up,showered, make up etc and the kids out, dressed, breakfasted and at before school club for 7:30am. Boom.

Husband? Always complains he can't get them there before 8:15.

Why is that?! I'm pretty sure I don't own a timeturner so yup, it's faffage.

I'm not making fun of him, because he's elderly and this is a once-a-week occurrence for me, so I'm not impatient with him, but my DF could win Faffing medals. I take him shopping, I pack the bag while he pays. Then he has a routine, at slower than snail's pace, where he unbuttons his jacket and puts anything worth less than 50p into his inside pocket. Then he buttons up his jacket and puts notes in his top pocket and then higher denomination coins in one side pocket. When that's all taken care of, the receipt goes into the other side pocket. To my knowledge I've never actually done the scream out loud

My PIL are king and queen of the faffers. Drives me absolutely mad.

Retired, no commitments, v few hobbies, no dependents in the house to look after, wealthy, cleaner and gardener etc.

They wake up at 9 but cannot seem to get out of the house until late afternoon. They are late for everything without fail but cannot explain why they are late or what they have been doing in the 5+ hours since they got up.

We don't see them much but when we do I've had to stop waiting for them as it ruins every lunch/ outing/ birthday. Now we just crack on at the arranged time and they act all surprised when they arrive an hour late and we're tucking into pudding or opening birthday presents.

WELL STOP FAFFING THEN PIL and you'll not miss out

My dh is like this, He'll get up as late as possible , have his sit down, then at the last couple of minutes before we're due to go out he starts getting ready, going from room to room about a million times, looking for shit that he doesn't need. But when he's going out to work, everything is planned and timed perfectly. I get about 10 jobs done before I need to head out, I'm able to shower, eat and get ready and I'm nothing special, most people can do this, but dh drives me mad when he is heading out with me.

Right as we have to leave is always the moment DH decides is best to go for a shit.....24 hours but that moment is the time!

Mil drives me mad with her faffing, we can be sitting in the car and see her running back and forth as we wait. We’ve been waiting for an hour for her to decide to finally move...’oh my keys? I better check that door I never open is still locked, have I closed the window?, which coat is better? Where are my shoes? Have I got my glasses...’ I go and sit in the car as she drives me mental and as her door is open I see her rushing about gagging!

*faffing not gagging!

My husband does this thing where he's ready to go way tok early, then moans that he just wants to go and we all need to get ready quicker. We go out to the car, get the 3 kids in and buckled, I'll get in the car, start the engine........and then he'll decide he needs to poop which takes forever. So we sit in the car, listen to music whilst he does that. At this point he'll then come back out, lock the door, get in the car, switch the music off, we drive off and suddenly he'll question if he did actually lock the door and we have to stop so he can check again.

God i love that man but he drives me insane