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Towel-gate

141 replies

Tunip · 20/06/2011 13:28

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 Grin)

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?

Grin

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

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Triphop · 20/06/2011 21:58

So.... where did he put the clean towel he used after the bath?

thegruffalosma · 20/06/2011 22:00

Would be funny if he slung it over the elephant.

superjobeespecs · 20/06/2011 22:01
Original poster
Tunip · 20/06/2011 22:01

Just folded (me not the towel) and asked him to read this thread. He is now making a tea towel chicken Grin

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NorksAreMessy · 20/06/2011 22:01

Oooh, other standoffs.....

....who will get up for the DCs. (failed, me every time)
.....who will take the pooches out last thing at night ( I won, now DHs job)
.....who will take bottles to the bottle bank ( I usually win this one, when bottle mountain threatens to engulf kitchen)
....who will clean fridge and suspicious slimy thing down the back of the salad drawer ( I lost, but DH came in to cheer from the sidelines)
....who will wash dirty socks (win on both sides DS is now paid to do all laundry)

Good luck OP, keep the faith

superjobeespecs · 20/06/2011 22:02

i'd of cracked ages ago well done tunip and tunips OH tidy up mucky pup!! Grin

budgieshell · 20/06/2011 22:05

Can some one pass me a towel to dry my eyes this thread is soooo funny.

We have a stand off about emptying the kitchen bin, we call it bin buckaroo cause when you can't balance anything else on the top without it falling off you loose and you have to empty the bin.

To old and tired to argue about these things any more just laugh it off and live in a tip.

Original poster
Tunip · 20/06/2011 22:05

The elephant is still on the sofa and the clean newly used towel is in the kitchen Hmm

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Original poster
Tunip · 20/06/2011 22:13

I'm going to bed now but only after making another elephant out of the newly used one. He will run out of towels soon but my house may be over run by elephants.

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Bogeyface · 20/06/2011 22:15

You do realise that every house I visit from now on will get an elephant in the bath when I leave dont you?!

:o

moonbells · 20/06/2011 22:23

crying with laughter here. I need to go make an elephant out of DS's bath towel before he wakes up tomorrow.

Bogeyface · 20/06/2011 22:44

Waiting for DH to go to the loo as I have used a MASSIVE bath sheet and a large towel to make the MoFo of all towel elephants. It is fecking enormous, and more than a wee bit sinister looking! I confidently predict that if he doesnt go to the bathroom planning on a poo, he will need one when he sees this mammoth sitting on the bog :o:o:o

Who knew that one minor standoff involving a married couple and a wet towel could lead to such fun for so many?! :o

NorksAreMessy · 21/06/2011 03:56

Tea towel chicken! :o

Original poster
Tunip · 21/06/2011 08:02

It continues.

Elephant on sofa and towel flung on kitchen chair.

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Tunip · 21/06/2011 08:35

I have asked him to move the towels and shoes. He has, but he has left the towel elephant on the sofa as he is not trained to handle dangerous animals Grin.

It can stay there - it looks quite cute

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Sadgirl1 · 21/06/2011 08:53

I once shared a house with an incredibly messy group of people. It was my XP's and his two Bro's house and I lived there along with their two GFs.

Every night I would cook for 6 of us and tidy up afterwards. No-one ever offered to help. When I first moved in, they had a cleaner who came on a Wednesday and Thursday. After the Thursday nothing would get cleaned/cleared up/tidied until the following Wednesday when the cleaner came back. Every plate, pan, knife, fork etc had been used so they would have takeaways that they could eat with their fingers. It was disgusting. There was even a pile of saucers on the floor for the cat where they would just add another one on top with the food on - never seen anything like it.

Well I couldn't live like that. I was the eldest and we all worked full-time and I sort of took on the role of Mother.

Until I got totally sick of it. I continued doing the clearing up (so that I could use clean crockery etc), but refused to cook for everyone anymore.

One day I came home after a really tough day at work and where I'd cleaned and the scrubbed the kitchen the day before, the messiest couple had come in, made themselves some food and just left all the dirty plates etc everywhere, both lounge and kitchen. I was so angry that I took everything upstairs and just put it in their bed AND covered it up with the duvet... [embarassed]

My XP was working nights so wasn't there and when said couple came in and went upstairs to bed, the Bro came into the bedroom screaming at me for what I'd done.

I'd stuck it with XP for 2 years but that was the final straw. I was out of there.

Worst thing was that the girl went on to have two children with XP's Bro and apparently they are still like it now. Yuck!!

Amaretti · 21/06/2011 09:20

Oh I do love that elephant!

Hopefully · 21/06/2011 09:31

I wonder how many towel elephants there are up and down the country as a result of this thread...

Bogeyface · 21/06/2011 09:33

The kids killed my elephant :(

"We were just looking...."

moonbells · 21/06/2011 10:31

My DS cried because he thought there would be a real elephant in the bathroom.

Then he pulled it to bits. I remade it. He trashed it again. Now he wants a monkey. Ah well...

jbcbj · 21/06/2011 10:45

lurking with tears in my eyes from laughing so much!

ImeldaM · 21/06/2011 11:11

What a hilarious thread! Grin
Have been following as my DP very similar, heard of someone who took all dropped items by their DH (socks, boxers) & stuffed them in his pillowcase every night, he only noticed when it got really padded!

gramercy · 21/06/2011 11:44

Some great tips here!

Can someone suggest a way of prompting dh into doing his duty?! We agreed 15 years ago that he would be in charge of lightbulbs. He is tall; I am short. At the moment I am on a standoff and waiting to see just how dark it gets before he moves his arse. Currently there is no bathroom light, no utility room light, half of a kitchen spotlight, no hall light and no garage light. I have to use a torch to read recipes/heating instructions. Nagging is pointless, and I fear that even if I went around bearing a candle he'd fail to notice.

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Tunip · 21/06/2011 11:44

He has gone to work and taken his sun glasses off the elephant.

Elephant now has googly eyes.

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