Towel-gate

[Tunip]

DH had a bath on Saturday night.
He left his towel on the sofa. Shoes in the bathroom door way, jeans on the bathroom floor. (There were no throws of passion involved to explain the scattering of clothes, it is just where he took them off )

They are still there.

AIBU to leave them there?

and

AIBU to ask you to join me in towel-watch to see how long the towel stays on the sofa?

PS I am not enabling his behaviour by picking up after him, hence stuff is where he left it. I know life is short to get wound up by these things- but it is too short for me to go around picking up after him

PPS I don't want a divorce

PPPS I think these threads always mention what a great DH and Dad he is - he is!

PPPPS He has had a shower since then

supdawn Is that how you fold all your towels?

Loving the cress idea, I could do that to his shoes that are still in the bathroom doorway and he will have to step over to get in the bath.

has it moved yet?!?!

has he not peed today? how can he not have noticed he had to step over his shoes?!?

loving the towel origami.

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Still waiting......bang goes my idea of an early night.

Yes, he's peed a few times and has kind of pushed them to the side a little. I have rather childishly moved them back.

Would it be cheating to leave a dry clean towel on the clothes hanging provacatively on the clothes horse?

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I have just followed that video Adagoo. I know have a towel elephant sitting on my sofa instead of it just flung there.

Shall I leave it as an elephant or re-fling it?

Elephant he may actually notice it then

When my dh dries his hands on the kitchen towel, for some unknown reason he takes it off the hook and deposits it wherever he happens to be when he finishes dying his hands

He has no idea whatsoever that he is even doing it, or that it enrages irritates me.

He's coming down stairs - chickened out and have un-elephanted the towel and re-flung it!!

Tunip you should have done a chicken then

Oooh, re-mooosiefy/ re-elephantify

Am stupidly excited about this thread

I am trying to upload a photo of my elephant but it keeps crashing.

The bath is running

Picture on profile

HE TOOK A CLEAN TOWEL

elephant now on sofa

I'll put money on the towel still being there in the morning and the shoes only moving (aside from the little nudge out of the way) when he next needs to wear them.

Ok elephantifying it may help it move sooner...

Well, he MIGHT just notice the towel has changed into an elephant with sunglasses on. If he queries it I might just mention the shoes.

Oh, me and DP have petty stand-offs all the time (sometimes he doesn't even know we're having them, and inside I'm positively raging).

Recently, we've had the only-doing-my-own-dishes stand-off, who-can-go-longest-without-emptying-the-bin, who-cracks-first-when-no-workshirts-are-ironed.....bags of fun round our house.

He's a great DP and dad, just needs quite intense training after being brought up in a shitholevery messy home.

That elephant is fab.
I do cringe at these threads though. Is it really so widespread that people, mostly men, seem to behave like this? Me and DH aren't terribly tidy but I would be hideously embarrassed if anyone popped by and there were things like just stepped out of underpants lying in the middle of the floor!

Stressheaderic Turn the towels into elephants from Adagoo's post - it is really fun. I'm going to do that with all towels left lying around. Perhaps there is origami for shirts!

He's out the bath

Tunip, perhaps we have made a mistake here.
Perhaps the FAB elephant is now YOUR work of art/ sign of bonkersness and nothing to do with him.

I think you might need to re-fling(and dampen) the towel.
Trouble is, he may now think of it as your towel, not his problem

MN - WHAT HAVE WE DONE?!?!?!?!

He is now sitting on a sofa opposite a towel elephant with sunglasses on and he hasn't noticed!!!!!

No wonder he can step over his own shoes

You've just reminded me dh and I once had a stand-off about doing the dishes. By the time he got round to doing them 3 days later I had already done them, but stacked them up again as if they hadn't been washed