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To wonder how many time I have to apologise before h will speak to me after accidently breaking the camera

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springchik · 25/09/2010 20:34

Went out today and ds1s put his coat on a picnic bench we were sat at. Not picnicing btw just sat there! Anyway I got up and picked up ds1s coat the camera went flying and landed on the floor. Didnt know the camera was even there. It worked for awhile but is now broken. Dh is furious with me. Spent alot of the afternoon after we got back looking at it and trying it over and over. Kept going on about what a new camera is going to cost him. Snapped at the dc aged 2 and 5. Out now but is still furious with me! :(

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Alibabaandthe40nappies · 25/09/2010 23:41

He's being an idiot. No point being angry about accidents.

dmo · 25/09/2010 23:46

Sad poor you x

i have accendently broken 3 cameras in a yr the last one we had for only a week (went on the train and ds had a drink which he put in my bag without putting the lid on proper and it leaked on the camera and it broke. dh had it drying out for a week and we managed to get the camera to turn on but then it died again), think my dh was miffed but hasnt said Grin
oh and when we got our all dancing all singing camera we went to a friends 40th and she had little tealights on the table and i managed to get the strap caught in the flame Grin

nothing else i am like this with must just be cameras

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gtamom · 26/09/2010 06:48

It was an accident. He will get over it.

Ineedmorechocolatenow · 26/09/2010 06:59

It was an accident. Don't apologise any more. Check your house insurance, but after that don't engage in any other debate about it. Treat him like the tantruming toddler he is.

Ishtar2410 · 26/09/2010 07:40

Stop apologising. Check the household insurance (as mentioned), and if you have a Jessops or camera shop close to you perhaps it might be worth having a chat with them. It might not be anything too serious. If it is, buy another camera.

Honestly, it was a mistake. Perhaps if he had told you it was there....

My nan always said you should have one less child than you actually want - the husband would always make up the numbers Smile.

PlumBumMum · 26/09/2010 11:38

springchik come back and tell us if he has apologised to you yet

clam · 26/09/2010 11:47

So, who put the camera on the bench in the first place? If it was him, then I'd be questioning how seriously he was taking its safety. Bit late to start getting all precious over it afterwards.

And hell would be freezing over before I was offering any BJs to anyone behaving like such a twat. Rewarding a stroppy sulk? Don't think so.

You've apologised (several times more than necessary, imo). He's now being very unreasonable, so is the one who should be apologising to you now.

mumof2children · 26/09/2010 12:10

my oh is the same, until i remind him the fact that normally the payment for the goods comes out on my account so i broke my thing

clam · 26/09/2010 12:36

I could understand him being so cross if you'd deliberately hurled it across the park, or if you'd been blase about the whole thing. Or even if you'd told him he was partly responsible (which, if he put it there in the first place, he was).
But you've nobly taken the rap for it, apologised numerous times, and he's still being an arse about it.

Don't de-base yourself any further.

ChaoticAngel · 26/09/2010 12:40

Tell him to grow up and stop being pathetic.

cumfy · 26/09/2010 14:33

37 posts and nobody asks the price Confused

If it was £1000 I could imagine being upset.

Meglet · 26/09/2010 14:39

If the camera was that precious to your DH then he should have been looking after it. He is being an arse.

Don't apologise anymore!

PlumBumMum · 26/09/2010 14:40

ha cumfy I thought that in original post but really it dosen't matter no object is worth falling out over especially over night,

I lived in a household like this and it is not pleasant, I grew up living in fear of dissappointing or upsetting my dad,

I'm not saying the op's dh does this all the time, I'm just saying nip it in the bud now!

PlumBumMum · 26/09/2010 14:42

Sorry take that back op didn't say overnight but even a few hours

giveitago · 26/09/2010 17:28

My little ds just broke our camera and we're too skint to buy a new one.

I frowed - I said it was a pitty as we cannot get another for a while and then life resumed. It's an inimate object and ds is a child.

Why is your dp being like this.

oooh - I grew up as a camera breaker. really did - to the point my df bought me a new camera to take on a holiday with strict instructions it was to last. It got mauled by a baboon. I was soooo upset but it was the baboon's fault. I was dreading coming back to the UK but my parents just rolled their eyes, but understood.

Tell him to get a fucking life. It's an accident. Things DO get broken.

YunoYurbubson · 26/09/2010 17:40
Confused

Are the people suggesting blowjobs or sex joking?

proudnglad · 26/09/2010 17:49

NEWS FLASH NEWS FLASH

Wife caught up in husband fury over something that seems a big deal at the time but will blatantly blow over in two minutes and is possibly the most tenuous reason to post on AIBU in MN history!!

Original poster
springchik · 26/09/2010 20:18

It was £60 in a sale last year so not massively expensive. Hasnt apologised but not angry about it either. Is thinking about getting it fixed at jessops or something.

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catsmother · 26/09/2010 21:37

To make you feel as bad as you did over something so relatively inexpensive is stupid and nasty. I have a reasonably expensive camera, more so depending which lens its wearing but unless someone deliberately stomped on it etc I can't imagine making someone else who'd damaged it accidentally suffer for hours on end. I'd be saddened perhaps but these things happen.

TBH, he may find it just as cheap to buy a new camera than get it repaired ... obviously depending what the issue is ... but I've found in the past that repairs on cheaper cameras aren't usually worth it.

alphamummy · 26/09/2010 21:45

£60? 60 measly sodding quid and he stropped like a child?!

2rebecca · 26/09/2010 22:22

If an accident 1 apology should be fine. He's behaving like a child and I'd tell him as much. I see no reason to apologise more than once for anything. It doesn't become more genuine the more you do it.
Things break, that's life. I presume it was a family camera and will cost both of you money to replace it, not just him.

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