DP bought me a ‘treat’ from the shop... (lighthearted)

[Southmouth]

I got a call from DP earlier to say he managed to get away from work early so stopped and done the shopping (a treat in itself!) he then tells me he picked me up a treat.. Just what I needed after a stressful day at work I thought!

I’m thinking maybe it’s something tasty to have after the tea I was then cooking or a nice bottle of wine rather than the cheap stuff I’d buy myself!

He gets in, I start putting he shopping away whilst he changes out of his work things, he then comes in the kitchen with a big smile on his face just as I’m getting 3 packs of asparagus with 50% off labels on out of the bag and says ‘oh you found your treat then’

My treat was bloody reduced asparagus, that I apparently don’t buy much. The reason behind that being I don’t really like it..

The thought was there though and I did thank him through gritted teeth

Dh once bought me a 'present', was a bottle of shampoo and a conditioner...
Birthday treat was once a Malayan curry.
With some disgusting choice of dried fruit in.
My worst nightmare..
And worse there was leftovers for the next day.
not envy.

The only 2 options are the vase or the beating to death. Hard to choose Op!

We having a standing joke that DH gets me gingerbread in my stocking for Christmas as it took him several years to remember that I hated the stuff.
I got an iron for Christmas last year.... I pointed out it was his iron that was broken not mine (we have two as he needs one when working away)

Omg do the vase thing!

Then go to the shop and get him a butternut squash for a treat and tell him he has to peel it and cut it up!

I love griddled asparagus dipped in soft boiled eggs... but not three packets of out of season asparagus .

I was offered a millennium falcon chopping board as a treat gift today

One of us owns a Starship Enterprise pizza cutter 😳😳

OH always asks me if I want pudding after dinner, then goes on to say that "pudding" is either fruit or a yoghurt.

Gives me the rage.

I've been 'treated' to not one, but two, doorstops

In fairness to him he is usually fabulous with gifts and treats but this particular one did leave me a bit baffled

My late DH was great at treats usually, but sometimes they would be really strange - a scratchcard, cookery book, pack of chorizo. I do miss the randomness of it all.

My H once packed an overnight bag for me as I was booked on a last minute work trip. He met me at the station, I grabbed it and ran on to the train. Opened it up at the hotel to find:
• a backless dress
• going out heels
• lingerie
• pyjamas
• a scented nappy bag filled with teabags
• a half eaten packet of jammie dodgers

Partner is good at treats.

A little to good 🍫🍬🍰

I was offered a millennium falcon chopping board as a treat gift today

I have a millennium falcon bottle opener and a Death Star ice cube tray

A pudding is indeed yoghurt or fruit in Yorkshire. Any dessert is referred to as pudding even if it’s not an actual pudding.

I’m so glad I decided to start this thread as I’m dying with the responses

I really am going to have to display them in a vase now and wait for his reaction!

If this is a competition I'd like to submit an entry in the form of my first ever Mother's Day gift.

Wait for it...

A My Bloody Valentine t-shirt and a haggis.

I was as baffled as you are.

DH is normally good at presents and I like practical things as well as actual treats but he went too far when he got me some of those plastic bag clips!!!

My late dad on the other hand was the master of random gifts... a display cabinet, chest of drawers, carrier bags of green beans, a broken pressure cooker that he had found at a car boot sale... He used to get quite angsty if there was even slight ungratefulness.

This thread has reminded me I need to by a spray mop.

I'm self partnering you see

My DH is an eBay addict. He told me he had got me a surprise gift. Sewing needles that somehow thread themselves when u push the cotton through the end it doesn’t have an eye but a v shape apparently. I have no idea my eyesight is bad and I cannot see the eye or the v shape to thread the cotton even with my glasses on.

I got a university physics textbook.

Seriously.

I can count to ten just about.

No need Sir! No bloody need!

Boil all asparagus
Force feed him with it
Make him do smelly asparagus wee in vase
Make him drink wee from vase
Divorce

@missnevermind me too!

I love asparagus but that’s not a treat.
Every time my DP leaves the house he comes back with a Coke Zero for me. Learned him good

@RandomMess Whaaat? Where does one buy such a chopping board?? I know a couple of people who would love one!

My husband got me a treat dinner after DS1 was born. He went to the shops, spent an age in the kitchen, and brought me.....a cup of tea and a hotdog

I still laugh at him for that

Last weekend DH popped to the shop and texted me on the way home to say he'd bought me a little something. I thought it'd be a bar of chocolate or a magazine, you know, something nice.

I was less than impressed when he presented me with a pack of scented sanitary towels, because "did you know they came with perfume now? Thought you might like to try them..." with a hopeful, eager look, like a child has when presenting their mum with a dandelion "flower". Yes thanks for that DH, but I'd rather not have thrush! He looked so pleased with himself that I didn't have the heart to tell him it was a shit present!