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People you only meet on Mumsnet...

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CurlewKate · 23/04/2023 10:18

People who never answer their door/phone.
People who get really stroppy about taking in parcels for neighbours.
People who can feed a family of four for a week on one chicken.
People who wash mince (one for the oldies, there.)
People who resent giving somebody a lift to a place they were going anyway.
Fee free to add your own!

OP posts:
SkyandSurf · 23/04/2023 23:12

LynetteScavo · 23/04/2023 21:24

People who are non-contact with their entire family, including grandparents and cousins, because they are all toxic.

People who go on two foreign holidays every year, even though they have a household income of £18K. They just go out of season in term time and tell school the DC are ill.

Oh you would be surprised. I think a lot of people just don't talk about it in real life.

DH is non contact with his parents and doesn't mind telling people- SO many people have said 'me too' and gone on to tell him why but it's not something they spread around because its painful and there's a stigma about it.

Non contact is usually the result of prolonged abuse, and abuse is sadly common.

MagpieSong · 23/04/2023 23:30

People who don’t use toilet brushes to agitate toilet cleaner.

People who don’t kiss their baby’s face.

MagpieSong · 23/04/2023 23:40

CalpolDependant · 23/04/2023 13:29

Are you this anxious about everything, OP?

It isn’t normal to be this anxious, OP.

You need to speak to someone about your anxiety, OP…

YABVU. Your neighbour has only copied your hair, changed her name to your name, seduced your husband and kidnapped your children, the eldest of whom she is trying to breastfeed from her dried up tit husks. ARE YOU USUALLY THIS ANXIOUS ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE, OP??

This had me giggling!

Bananarama77 · 24/04/2023 07:21

WheelsUpIn20 · 23/04/2023 18:35

Also not letting trade people use their toilet. When they’re doing work on their home 🤯

Personally I don’t, not after a 12 week extension & loo looking like a train station toilet. SOME tradesmen are disgusting especially if more than 1

Deathraystare · 24/04/2023 10:23

The ones who won't let tradesmen use their loo! I guess in their mind they are lady of the house and missing a servants toilet!!

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 24/04/2023 13:12

People who go on two foreign holidays every year, even though they have a household income of £18K. They just go out of season in term time and tell school the DC are ill

There were several parents like this at my DC's school - although they were probably honest about the holiday. And TBH if I worked in a different environment I may have done it too.

SirChenjins · 24/04/2023 13:12

People whose DH’s/DP’s get hit on right in front of them every time they go out. Makes me wonder about the places they’re going to and the company they’re keeping.

Daffodilwoman · 24/04/2023 22:23

Sirchenjins no I actually know a woman like this. Her (very ordinary looking) chap apparently was sone kind of fanny magnet. They could not go anywhere without women throwing themselves at him. Supermarkets, woods, pubs, restaurants, football matches, you name it wherever they went women could not resist him. I began to think I had sone kind of scales over my eyes as quite frankly he was what I’ve seen described as “A potato with eyes.” Yep she was deluded.

Crikeyalmighty · 25/04/2023 13:37

@Daffodilwoman You only have to read Take A Break and look at the pictures to see some woman describing their exceptionally ordinary looking (and in some cases less than that) as when they met 'utterly gorgeous handsome Brian' etc

I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that but there does seem to be some women who think we are all desparate to get off with their bald/paunchy/ badly dressed/semi literate / personality bypass bloke

VWHoliday · 25/04/2023 16:02

clpsmum · 23/04/2023 14:53

People who hate their step children

and don't even attempt to have a relationship with them.

NotAnotherBathBomb · 25/04/2023 16:14

Daffodilwoman · 24/04/2023 22:23

Sirchenjins no I actually know a woman like this. Her (very ordinary looking) chap apparently was sone kind of fanny magnet. They could not go anywhere without women throwing themselves at him. Supermarkets, woods, pubs, restaurants, football matches, you name it wherever they went women could not resist him. I began to think I had sone kind of scales over my eyes as quite frankly he was what I’ve seen described as “A potato with eyes.” Yep she was deluded.

😂

I also knew a woman in a fb group who was always going on about women constantly hitting on her husband. He didn't look so much like a potato as he did a cabbage patch doll, while still in the cabbage patch.

But good for her I guess

Ontopofthesunset · 25/04/2023 16:23

For me it's the people who never answer the door.
And the 'my house my rules, my baby my rules, my rules my rules' people.
And the people who don't know anyone at all who could babysit ever and no, there are no neighbours or friends or teenagers or babysitting agencies at all that they could ask, not even in an emergency.
And on another thread just now the people who have never, ever been on holiday.

NotAnotherBathBomb · 25/04/2023 16:26

Ontopofthesunset · 25/04/2023 16:23

For me it's the people who never answer the door.
And the 'my house my rules, my baby my rules, my rules my rules' people.
And the people who don't know anyone at all who could babysit ever and no, there are no neighbours or friends or teenagers or babysitting agencies at all that they could ask, not even in an emergency.
And on another thread just now the people who have never, ever been on holiday.

TBH, I think a lot of the people who have twins with SEN, partner who works away and not a soul to help aren't genuine.

SirChenjins · 25/04/2023 16:28

And the people who don't know anyone at all who could babysit ever and no, there are no neighbours or friends or teenagers or babysitting agencies at all that they could ask, not even in an emergency

That was us. We’d just moved to the area, knew no-one, had no family near by, no agencies in the vicinity. I wouldn’t have trusted an unknown teenager with my baby and toddler. Now the DC are adults I’ve spoken to many people who were exactly the same. It’s not that unusual really - and it’s a horrible position to be in.

givemecoffeenow · 25/04/2023 16:43

I remember seeing a post ages ago were loads of people on mumsnet admitted that they don’t wash their feet.

I spoke to people I know in real life and they all wash their feet , so I guess that’s just mumsnet people 🤣

also the toilet brush thing.

I wash my feet every day and have a toilet brush for each toilet in the house. Total mumsnet crimes.

GreatBigBoots · 25/04/2023 16:47

Kickingupmerrybehaviour · 23/04/2023 21:01

People who are 40 + but genuinely look in their twenties and get asked for id regularly

I know one person in real life who constantly talks/posts on social media about this happening to her. Often asking for people to tell her it never happens to them and express shock at her actual age, despite having had the same discussion last monthgive her tips on how they deal with it/how to avoid it. She is in her 40s and although she probably does look a bit younger than some of us, even without my glasses on I can tell that she's over 25 (which is saying something!).

caringcarer · 25/04/2023 17:01

People who co sleep. In real life I've never met any children who did not sleep in their own beds.

caringcarer · 25/04/2023 17:05

daisymoonlight · 23/04/2023 12:49

The weird obsession with "be kind" no matter how rude, cheeky or downright rude other people have been to you with apparently no expectation that they should reciprocate that attitude.

Eg. "my neighbour stole my wedding ring"- "BE KIND, she may be in poverty- you should give her the rest of your jewellery so she doesnt starve to death"

"My best friend stabbed me in the back and slept with my husband!"- BE KIND, she probably has depression/MH issues, is lonely etc- forgive her and lend her your husband every weekend"

"My tenants havent paid the rent for 6 months, how can I get them out?"- "BE KIND, its not easy renting, you should give them the house"

There is always one weirdo who comes out with this rubbish but I always suspect that they dont practice what they preach.

This is hysterically 🤣 funny.

caringcarer · 25/04/2023 17:06

The number of posters who's children will only eat chicken nuggets or similar.

determinedtomakethiswork · 25/04/2023 17:10

People who call Kate Middleton Catherine, thinking it sounds as though they are friends with her.

CellophaneFlower · 25/04/2023 17:20

givemecoffeenow · 25/04/2023 16:43

I remember seeing a post ages ago were loads of people on mumsnet admitted that they don’t wash their feet.

I spoke to people I know in real life and they all wash their feet , so I guess that’s just mumsnet people 🤣

also the toilet brush thing.

I wash my feet every day and have a toilet brush for each toilet in the house. Total mumsnet crimes.

Is the not using a loo brush a thing? I don't use one and never have. I clean the bathroom then use the sponge to clean the loo, then discard.

merryhouse · 25/04/2023 17:36

People who get involved in their tertiary-student's budgeting.

When I was at university you got given your grant cheque, and if it wasn't the full amount your parents either handed you the difference or told you they couldn't afford it, and then you dealt with your hall fees and railcard and beer money and overdrafts and summer jobs to get solvent again.

Nowadays it's all "we pay the accommodation plus so much a week" or even "he gives us his loan and we use that to pay accommodation". So many parents seem to think their offspring can't cope with termly payments.

(We didn't have to consider any of this - ours get the full loan. But if things had carried on as they were we'd been planning to simply convert the monthly £35 standing order into a £450ish standing order)

Dottymug · 25/04/2023 17:41

@Bananarama77 Seriously...they weren't allowed to use your loo? Did the neighbours not object when they had to pee in your garden??

aprilshowers4 · 25/04/2023 17:44

People who have the time to do all of this in 24 hours:

Walk 10k steps
Make delicious healthy home cooked meals
Earn a very high / at least above average wage
Go to the gym/yoga
Raise 2.4 kids
Maintain a good relationship with SO
Have a big circle of close friends and family

tobee · 25/04/2023 17:48

People on Mumsnet never reply "it depends on my mood". Everyone seems to have hard and fast rules.