A couple of days ago my hoover died a death. It caught fire whilst I was doing the DCs room.
Anyway, my parents have kindly said I can borrow theirs whenever I need to until such times as we can afford to replace it. To be fair, we only have three carpeted areas in the flat so it hasn't been particularly urgent.
My brother (who lives at home with our parents and his GF) is off work today. I sent him a text earlier asking him if it would be ok to pop round to pick it up. He said he wasn't doing anything so it would be fine. In the meantime, I realised that the reason I am sitting indoors all bloody day is because I'm waiting for the heating engineers to come out and do the annual gas safety check, and for the washing machine repair people to come out and repair that (a whole other thread!). In addition, I've got DS home ill and DD2 crawling around the place trashing everything as year old babies tend to do.
I sent him another message and said as I was stuck at home etc and he was doing nothing, would he be able to pop it round to me. It would be a ten minute job out of his busy day doing nothing. I explained the situation to him and the reply I got was "If I can I will". I sent him another message, thanking him profusely and continued sitting indoors waiting for all these people. I know it wasn't a definite "yes", but I suppose I kind of thought he would consider the situation I'm in and bring it round for me. I don't drive and would have had difficulty pushing the double buggy and dragging a hoover along behind me, even if I could leave the house to pick it up.
I've now just received a text from his GF (who is lovely - no bad blood between us) saying she is in all day so I can pop round and pick it up whenever I want. This has annoyed me for two reasons, one, they both know I'm waiting in for these fuckwits to turn up, DS is ill etc and two, because I don't feel that I need an invitation to go round to my parents house.
I just think if he didn't want to do it, he should have said so from the off, instead of leading me to think he would be in anyway helpful. It's really niggled me because last week, when he wanted to borrow the badge glue for DD1's brownies badges, I ran it round there once DH was home with the DCs. When he asked me to look after his camera after a night out, then requested it back the next day, rather than getting off his arse and picking it up, I went round to bring it to him. I don't think him helping me out today was too much to ask.
The carpets in question, for anyone who is remotely interested are in the hallway so get pretty yucky due to high traffic, the DC's bedroom (say no more!) and the rug in the front room which has to be kept relatively nice because DD2 is crawling and the front room and kitchen are open plan, plus I have the messiest kids ever.
So, IABU? I can take it 