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"A colleague came round the office yesterday with a collection envelope for someone in another team who is retiring. I've only worked there two weeks and I've never met the person leaving. Colleague asked me if I wanted to donate. I said no politely, explaining I'm new and I don't know them. She said 'oh that's right, you wouldn't really have had anything to do with them would you' and moved on to the next person."

"My DH's friend is getting married next year and has just arranged a week-long stag do in Prague in March. We have one DC under two and I'm due to give birth to our second in February. DH told me last night he'd been invited on the stag do but declined because we'll be too busy with the new baby and elder DC. He's going to go out for a curry one night with the groom-to-be and a couple of other mates who can't make it instead."

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Someone knocked my door and I answered it.

I gave birth to our second baby a month ago. DH cycles to work 15 miles away so that I can have the car, because I'm not yet feeling up to walking a mile each way to take our older one to school.
Once when it was raining hard, we piled into the car together because the kids are up at the crack of dawn anyway and I took him to work and one of his mates dropped him home even though it took him ten minutes out of his way.
When DH got home he read stories to DD while I fed the baby.

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I have some builders working at my house. One of the, asked to use the loo and I thought it was a very reasonable request. He left the facilities as he found them and there were no residual smells. I do not believe he was making a power play with his masculine toileting.

My son told me his teacher had shouted at him for not reason and kept him in at playtime. He was very upset and angry about this. I chatted with the teacher the next morning and turns out she had very good reasons so I bollocked DS for his misdemeanours and told him to behave himself at school.

My and OH had a row, we shouted, I made a cuppa and made them one, we are still together.

I made my builder a cup of tea. He said thank you and did not ask me for a cheese sandwich.

Went to a new restaurant last night. Booked a table in plenty of time. Food and staff and atmosphere were all great. Loved seeing a couple of friends. We all just split the bill (and it was good value) and said what a great time we’d had. Oh and there was a table nearby with such lovely children having a good time with their grandparents and parents, trying all the food and playing a quite game which looked like great fun.
Just life affirming all round.

I had unprotected sex then soon thereafter I peed on a stick and saw a line with my own eyes.
I didn’t need to ask random strangers if they could see the line too.

All the parents at my DCs school are lovely!

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DH has a hobby (cycling, he loves it, and it's quite popular) which he does every Sunday morning for four hours with friends. He gets the children up and dresses them and gives them breakfast without waking me, then takes them to his mum's where they play with their similar aged cousins all morning in MIL's huge garden while she makes a roast lunch for us all. He goes off cycling, I get up late, lounge, drink coffee, catch up on some reading, then we all meet at Mail's at 1 for delicious food.

Oh wait... IABU!

DLTB

My DS has been awake all night screaming in pain and has a raging fever and complaining his right side of his abdomen is agony. I'll take him straight to a&e/phone for ambulance instead of asking for advice on MN and ignoring said advice and just see how he is in the morning.

My neighbours put an extension cord through the open living room window and put the tv outside on an old milk crate. They also moved the microwave outside for burger making and an empty Homebase paint tub filled with water and ice to keep the red stripe cool. They were making quite a bit of noise but it got much worse when they decided a paddling pool was a good idea for the kids and neighbourhood stray dogs to play in. The noise was getting a bit out of hand by this time, especially as they’re garden party had spilled onto our front garden as well, and the dog was barking every time someone moved outside. Later on they decided to have a bbq but as they didn’t have one, they dug a hole in the front garden and decided to burn some old clothes in it and put the wire rack from the oven over the top. By 10pm they had decided to use Alexa to play ‘footballs coming home’ at full volume and this also encouraged my Alexa to join in. By 11 pm I’d really had enough and went outside and politely asked them to maybe retire indoors for the evening. They said ‘oh yes of course, do excuse us we got slightly carried away’. They tidied all the mess and filled in the hole, and even came round next day with a bottle
Of wine to apologise. I get on really well
With my neighbours.

A few years before my mum died she spoke to me and to my siblings and told us what was in her will and what a few personal requests were for us to do after her death which she wrote in a letter (codicil). It was all very sensible and her mind was at rest. After she died it all went smoothly and it was an honour to respect her wishes.

I've got a weird lump on my ankle, I didn't google the symptoms and suddenly assume it was cancer.
I didn't go to A&E, I went to the pharmacist who has confirmed it is an insect bite.

my neighbour has a lovely big fluffy cat that comes into my garden every day to take a huge dump bless him. I am so pleased as it keeps the neighbours garden clean and tidy don't mind keep cleaning it up

I'm an older woman and I was in a cafe when a young woman with a new baby came in and she sat at the next table. We had a brief chat about her baby and I looked in the pram and said the baby was beautiful. She smiled and said thank you and I went on with my day.

I went out for dinner with friends. We agreed at the start how we would divide up the bill and then we ordered what we wanted and had a good time.

I quite like my dh.

My Problem

I'd like readers to ignore 90% of what I've written here and massively project their thoughts on a vaguely similar situation from their life below.

My neighbour did a lot of heavy pruning yesterday. Loads of leaves and branches came into my garden plus one fence panel was left a bit out of its posts. She called this morning to apologise - she’d just seen the mess in my garden from her bedroom window and was mortified. She’s coming round in a bit to clear it all up. I’ll put the kettle on. Always like having a chat with her.

My neighbours don’t work and have several children .

I noticed they get things delivered from Amazon quite a lot and have Ocado food shopping too. I’m so glad we live in a country where people whose private circumstances I know nothing about are looked after financially and able to live comfortably and feed their dc

I received a letter from my mum this morning (we're NC, so she doesn't have my number). It was long, and began with how sorry she is about how my childhood was, how she'd spent a lot of time over lockdowns reading online about narcissistic behaviour and understood all the wrong choices she'd made and how her treatment of us was wrong. She acknowledged how toxic and harmful our home life had been, how understandable it was that none of her children were in contact now, and said that she wasn't ill or in need of care or money, but that she wanted to be a far better grandparent than she had a parent. She even said she she'd been wrong about DH, and that he was a wonderful man who has always had my best interests at heart, and she wishes she'd been more welcoming when he joined the family.
She finished by saying if I'd like to meet up for coffee sometime and take it slowly getting to know one another again she would love to do that, and to just let her know, though she would understand if I didn't feel able.

It was my birthday this week. Sometimes DH is a bit crap with gift buying. I wanted a specific item. I sent a link of said specific item to DH and said this is what I want for my birthday. DH ordered it. I got what I wanted for my birthday.

I asked for an extra pillow when I was in labour in the labour room and the midwife got me one. When I asked for an epidural they said ‘absolutely , no problem’ and I was able to have one within half an hour.