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To think this a bit mean to DD?

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leanmeancoffeebean · 05/04/2011 17:44

DD is home for the university holidays. She normally works full-time in these, but is starting to take some time off to do her uni work. Today, she stayed home whilst we all went out to work, so she could do an essay. She also hung up the washing, walked the dog, and collected a package for DH.

DH gets in from work and immediately shouts up the stairs to her to 'come and clean up her mess' and that the 'kitchen is a state.' DD had made a sandwich and left the filling in a pan to cool, with a bowl ready for it to go into next to the stove. DD objects to being told what to do without so much as a 'hello' from DH, and points out that she had already washed up everything which could be and that an errant pan does not a state make. She's rather upset at being shouted at, but is DH BU? She probably should have washed the pan up, but she was working and honestly most likely forgot about it. DH is insisting he's in the right to have had a go at her. I'm feeling a bit more sympathetic towards her!

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ScarlettWalking · 05/04/2011 21:36

Maybe he had a bad day. It was rotten of him but we all are allowed a moment of madness. Is he regretfull?

leanmeancoffeebean · 05/04/2011 21:46

He's fixed her cupboard door for her, so I think that's his way of saying sorry. He's been in a bit of a grump all evening but I've told him he was BU. I am sure 'Pangate' won't go down in family history. Actually we already had a Pangate...I clonked same DD round the head with one (by ACCIDENT, not that that's what she likes to tell people Hmm) whilst cooking when she was about six. It was possibly even the same pan.

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BelleDameSansMerci · 05/04/2011 21:51

Arghhhhh! It's the pan - it's cursed. The pan of evil. Grin

DaffodilsAndScillas · 05/04/2011 22:47

Grin at him fixing the cupboard door for her - that's as near to an apology as I bet she gets!

YANBU, of course; he was being really unfair. I second the poster above who said maybe it's partly adjusting to the 'new her'.

blackeyedsusan · 05/04/2011 23:01

She can come round to my flat to tidy up and wash up study anytime

hanging washing, fetching a parcel, walking the dog, washing up. goodness me what aweful behaviour from a student. goodness me, your dh is an unreasonable ungrateful, silly little man. she sounds lovely, well done.

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