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AIBU?

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To tell DH that it really isn't funny?

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YouBrokeIt · 21/05/2011 13:55

A while ago DH got annoyed because we kept getting mail for the people who used to live here a year after we moved in so one day he saw the post man coming up the garden path, hid behind the door and when the letters started pushing through DH grabbed them really aggressively from the inside of the letter box screaming "GIVE THEM TO ME!" and then made chomping and snaring noises as if he was eating them. The postman jumped a mile and shouted "jesus christ" before backing out of the garden quickly.

So this time we bough found it funny and I was creased up for ages laughing. However he decided it would be funny to do it a tak-away leaflet guy, same proceedure but this time the young guy shouted "dickhead" and thumped the front door. I told DH enough was enough and to give it a rest and he didn't do it for ages but this morning he was in a daft mood and did it the paper boy and literally RAN out of the garden and down the street. I don't think he even finished his round. He was only about 13.

I'm really angry with him, as usual he's taken it too far. DH says if I don't like it I don't have to watch!! AIBU to insist he stops doing it as it just isn't funny anymore?

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rainbowinthesky · 21/05/2011 15:47

Why does it have to be at someone elses expense? Imo a joke is where everyone laughs....

cat64 · 21/05/2011 15:49

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deepbluewave · 21/05/2011 15:50

Im sure the post man doesn't need Psychiatric therapy after it. He probably knows, there is some silly man, trying to make his family laugh.
I wouldnt take offence.

Olifin · 21/05/2011 15:52

deepblue It's ok for your OH to try to embarrass you in public because you don't mind. It you did mind, then he shouldn't.

We're not talking about the OP's OH embarrassing her, we're talking about him scaring and humiliating strangers when they are working.

Why should we lighten up? There's nothing wrong with my sense of humour, I just don't laugh at 'jokes' where someone else's dignity has been compromised.

lubberlich · 21/05/2011 15:55

The only thing more annoying than actually witnessing these "hilarious" episodes would be to be stuck with this geezer whilst he recounted all of his "I'm fucking crazy me" anecdotes.
Unfunny twat.

deepbluewave · 21/05/2011 15:57

You would seriously be 'scared' if you posted something through a door and someone pretended to - (whatever he was doing) ?? eat it and churn it back out?

I hardly think his dignity has been compromised. Prob happens a lot.

Postie, may have appreciated a break to his routine for all we know- he was hardly wielding knives and dribbling out the front door.

You seem pretty serious to me...

purplepaynepurplerain · 21/05/2011 15:57

Doing that to a child is outrageous I wonder if his parents will find it funny?

Your Dh needs to grow up and find another way to make you laugh/keep you amused.

Lucyinthepie · 21/05/2011 15:58

Op, your DH is a twat. Don't be surprised if you find your Royal Mail and newspaper deliveries stopped.
The paperboy's parents could even decide to call the police.

rainbowinthesky · 21/05/2011 15:58

"The postman jumped a mile and shouted "jesus christ" before backing out of the garden quickly. "
Yep, sounds like the postman thought it was hilarious.

AgentZigzag · 21/05/2011 16:02

I wouldn't do it myself to our lovely postie, but you're going to struggle doing the job if you're of a nervous disposition.

They must see all sorts on their rounds, dogs jumping out, people with not a lot on, letterboxes seemingly eating the post, I hardly think they're going to need counselling for the experience.

Carrying it on is a bit much, but even so I can't quite get my head round the 'outrageous' and

Olifin · 21/05/2011 16:03

deepblue I honestly don't know because it's never happened to me but I imagine it would have really made me jump and I don't like when people I know make me jump, let alone someone I've never met. Besides, it sounds as though neither the postman, leaflet man nor paperboy found it funny.

'You seem pretty serious to me'. Right-O. You are basing this on the few sentences I've written here? How can you make such a judgement? How odd. Indeed I am quite serious at times. I am also quite a laugh at times. Isn't everyone? I'm not laughing at this because it isn't funny, IMO.

HeadfirstForHalos · 21/05/2011 16:06

I must admit I involuntarily laughed when I first read it, in in actuality it really isn't funny to scare somebody, even more so a stranger and in particular a child.

I suffer with panic attacks and anxiety, I can function normally 99% of the time, but something like this would have had me shaking and crying. I too hope the newsagents refuse to deliver to you, that the teen or his mum get their revenge, and I don't know if posties can refuse to deliver but I hope they log a complaint.

Twattish behaviour, particularly when repeated.

HeadfirstForHalos · 21/05/2011 16:09

AgentZigzag you expect dogs and the like, but nutcases "eating" the post?

I doubt anyone would need counselling for it, but it's highly unpleasant.

HeadfirstForHalos · 21/05/2011 16:10

On my first post it's meant to be but in actuality

deepbluewave · 21/05/2011 16:11

True- zigzag, since I have been on Mat leave, my postie has caught me with not a lot on, as I live in a ground floor flat and had a lovely lie in bed as he walked past the window!

Olfin- Im sure there is really nothing wrong with your sense of humor. I bet you get your rocks off every night.

stillfrazzled · 21/05/2011 16:12

Your DH is a twat. It wasn't funny the first time and scaring a child is nasty bullying. HTH. And I don't need to lighten up, it just wasn't bloody funny.

deepbluewave · 21/05/2011 16:17

sigh. I get the point. WE all find different things funny/harmless/silly/stupid.
Didnt we already know that?

Olifin · 21/05/2011 16:24

See deep, I do like sarcasm

stillfrazzled · 21/05/2011 16:25

We do all find different things funny - that's why, say, Jim Davidson still has a career, much to my utter bafflement.

But I would have thought most of us could agree that scaring the life out of someone who's fulfilling the legal terms of their job (delivering the post) or a 13-year-old working for pocket money isn't actually harmless.

And personally, I think people who do find that harmless are twats.

HeadfirstForHalos · 21/05/2011 16:29

Yes of course we different tastes in humour, but it's crossing the line when you subject strangers to a shock for your own childish amusement. Maybe the OP and her dh should stick to jumping out on each other for kicks? :)

Olifin · 21/05/2011 16:31

The fact that Jim Davidson is still in a job is, frankly, very depressing indeed.

Maybe the OP could buy her OH a Whoopee cushion? Hours of fun.

deepbluewave · 21/05/2011 16:31

Olfin

have any of you read the other AIBU thread- lady who screamed at her postie for waking her dog/baby up, after having a 'no junk mail' sign up??

They get it all the time! Might leave a cup cake out for my postie tomorrow! Ease the pressure on his rounds!

Bizkit · 21/05/2011 16:33

Must admit reading the OP I did laugh a little.

stillfrazzled · 21/05/2011 16:34

I don't think that was a postie, was it? Had read it as being one of the army of people who shove menus through my letterbox every day, too. Not that I'd scream at them but I do get sick of wading through them to get to the door...

AgentZigzag · 21/05/2011 16:38

I'm sure the postie just went off at worst rolling his eyes and tutting at what a tit the post eating bloke was, or most probably walked off chuckling at his idiocy.

And although I don't find it funny after the first incident, the 13 YO poor lamb of a paperboy won't be having nightmares about the nasty paper eating letterbox!

Getting bitten by dogs on your round is a bit of a fuck off, but this is hardly in the same league.

I must be a twat then stillfrazzled - now tell me something I don't know...

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