I've just spent a few days at new man's parents' house

[Curlybook]

They've been lovely, nothing too much trouble and the house is beautiful, spotless, but soo uncomfortable.

Nothing is there to be nice to use. The beds are nice looking wooden frames with saggy mattresses, the sofa has wooden arms and is impossible to sit on unless you sit up straight, even garden furniture has no cushions and the shower doesn't have a handheld bit so is awkward to use.

I've come home to my slightly shabby and untidy house glad to be able to curl up on the sofa.

Do you think they find it uncomfortable too?

I like to rinse, not just give it a rub with a hand.

ive never once in nearly 45 years used a hand held shower head to rinse my bits!
just wash the old pubes with shower gel and the backside and the shower water washes it all away! Use your hand to help swish things about but no need for a direct stream of water

Gonna do an IABU on the hose/rinsing malarkey

Oh darnit! I was hoping from the thread title that this might possibly be a slightly interesting thread. No such luck.

I cannot cope with "hose the inside"!! You've given me such a good laugh with that phrase

I think your problem is using soap! You should only really use soap on the pube area and water on the rest.

The bastards!!

Yanbu, my FIL stays and moans that we have a wide deep soft sofa (I like to lie in my sofa so its a huge deep L shaped soft thing). He only likes to sit on the sofa with legs down. Would never put his feet up or lie on a sofa.
He also hates our beds, we bought mattresses we find comfortable for all beds.
Maybe its generational of what they find comfortable?

Just how other people do things differently. My inlaws have cream walls, cream carpet, cream sofa ,little heating and hot water. It's not at homely but for them it is I guess. I don't like staying there either but they're good people.

I love hearing people's quirks! I had an ex who's mum would never put the hall light off ever. I was last to bed one night, put it off and the next day was told 'it never goes off'. blazing sun? On.
I still want to know what was the deal with the hall light. She started to tell me once and I get the feeling it was a ghost but then she changed her mind and didn't tell me (in case the ghost heard?!)

Wow, so they made you welcome in their home and you can't wait to slag them off to a bunch of strangers online. Nice.

You really are and it's horrible to see.

You should absolutely do this.

It'll be as furiously divisive as lavatory brushes.

It's a cream alternative. An equivalent scenario would be offering margarine instead of butter. Similar, but no real substitute for the real deal.

"Elmlea stays fresher for longer, over the double the shelf life of dairy cream (before and after opening). Elmlea Double is our multipurpose cream alternative"

www.elmlea.com/productoverview/elmlea-double

[Clutches pearls at the thought of being offered margarine]

I can’t imagine what was said about the OP as this couple waved off the OP and their son.

The reality is… I would hedge bet they never see the Op again because the new man finishes it having witnessed how she behaved over the weekend with his folks!

No one ever talks about margarine now, do they? The new word is spread, or the brand name.

I don’t know anyone or has margarine
I actually can’t recall ever eating let alone buying margarine
shudder!

Really? You know nobody who buys and uses Flora, Olivio, Pure spread or own brand equivalents? Stork for baking?

No. Mind you.., can’t say that this is a source of much discussion amongst friends or family.

but when I have stayed with friends or family… I have never been presented with margarine

as for whether they use in baking… who knows. I don’t.

You dad sounds similar to my husband and I 🤣🤣🤣

Older people do often have more upright chairs, I'm 67 and fairly fit but sat in a large soft sofa in Next and struggled to get out of it. We have metal garden furniture as it last longer, a coat of Hammerite and it good for several more years, I don't always use a cushion if I can't be bothered to get it out of the cushion box.

@junebirthdaygirl I'm always direct, but polite to dm, but she just ignores what I say. Guests still sleep on db and my childhood single divans with original mattresses. I am 60 this year and was about 9 when they were bought.

Different people like different things, I find loads of people have furniture I find uncomfortable eg most people I know have sofas without a high back which I don't like.

Maybe he can't get up off it easily, like I struggled in Next😀