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Original poster

To want to stick his twunting hairdryer up his bottom?

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ChocolateTeacup · 23/08/2011 16:57

I apologise if the title offends.

I have a (not so D)H who is working very hard at the moment, Leaving the house around 10am back around 10pm

Last night I was feeling very drained from a tough day with the boys aged 3 & 4 as they had been whiny and clingy, I had earlier gone out to the site to deliver donuts and drinks to him and his friends who are working together on a big project. Came home made dinner, put his in the microwave ready for him and sent a message saying I was going to bed. He replied ok

Then he comes in storms in the bedroom ( I was asleep) going why the hell are you in bed?? where am I supposed to get dry after my shower (rather than dry himself with a towel, he spends around an hour with a hairdryer blasting him whilst he fiddles on his phone) I respond, I was asleep it is one room of the house, use a different one, he grabs the laptop slams the door storms off, comes back and says oh I suppose I will have to sort my dinner as well, i say yes its in the microwave

Shower goes on

Then off

Screw you its my damn house and if I want to relax in my bedroom I will.

At this point I move onto the sofa, not wanting to provoke a big row, figuring fine he is just stressed.

So he gets dry (hairdryer turned full whack) turns the hall light on wakes up the eldest boy, who is happy to see him and he him, bangs and crashes about getting his own dinner. We haven't spoken since.

We have been married 7 years and I still hate the noise of the stupid hairdryer, WIBU to respond to any further rubbish with its insertation? There is another hairdryer that lives in the study, so its not as if I was suggesting he didn't use the stupid thing

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ChocolateTeacup · 23/08/2011 17:45

Sue - It is in itself a separate issue, he does it a fair bit, but is working on it, I have given him until my birthday (February) to sort it out, it used to be all the time, now only monthly

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2BoysTooLoud · 23/08/2011 17:46

Would he like what Glitterknickaz is suggesting? I would see it as less odd than a hair dryer and could double up as bathroom heater.
Never heard of hairdryer body drying before - could hurt if held too close.. burns.. ooch...

Bluestocking · 23/08/2011 17:47

I was thinking of the end of the garden as a lovely venue for a Haystack. How would you facilitate the phoning though? Built-in speakers and microphone? Not video-conferencing though, too scary for the other half of the conversation.

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ChocolateTeacup · 23/08/2011 17:47

Probably, not he would have to stand up, and couldn't take it with him on holiday

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ChocolateTeacup · 23/08/2011 17:47

whoops errant comma

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NorkyButNice · 23/08/2011 17:48

How did you end up married to this man?

The first time he did this in front of me I would have seriously questioned dating (let alone marrying) him!

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ChocolateTeacup · 23/08/2011 17:50

Because when you are a teenager and in love, the rose glasses let stuff through that as a rational adult you wouldn't put up with

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RogerMelly · 23/08/2011 17:52

isnt it a electricution risk/fire risk/health and safety nightmareto dry your very wet body oiff with an electrical item that you have to hold?

thefirstMrsDeVere · 23/08/2011 17:52

A hairdryer?!

I cant really get past that bit TBH.

Sounds dangerous and odd insane

Sorry to be so unhelpful.

Glitterknickaz · 23/08/2011 17:53

Just think what happened to Ken Barlow's wife.....

StealthPolarBear · 23/08/2011 17:54

Apocalypse, something you want to share with the thread?

SeymoreButts · 23/08/2011 17:55

DH can be a complete and utter arse after a bad day at work, so you have my sympathies. We all have shit days, but there's no need to take it out on everyone else.

MadameOvary · 23/08/2011 17:56

Farkinell
I didnt think I'd read anything odder than the cotton bud thread, but this is a fair contender.

RogerMelly · 23/08/2011 17:56

does he like the way the hot air dries his pubes off or something?

ohh they wave in the wind you know

Fontsnob · 23/08/2011 17:56

Can you rig the hairdryer to emit small electrical shocks... nothing fatal, just a slight shocking of the nether regions?

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ChocolateTeacup · 23/08/2011 17:58

Fontsnob, that would be good, and maybe a sweet can appear when he turns it off? :o

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MissPenteuth · 23/08/2011 17:58

I find it weird that it's the hairdryer aspect that people are picking up on.

He does this for an hour? Drip-drying for an hour would seem excessive, but hairdrying for an hour??

I think he has serious (maybe not actually harmful, but serious) issues.

RogerMelly · 23/08/2011 17:59

sorry I didn't read the original post properly....you say...

" he spends around an hour with a hairdryer blasting him whilst he fiddles on his phone)"

so i gett he idea now Shock Blush

ApocalypseCheeseToastie · 23/08/2011 17:59

Nope Blush

WonderingHead · 23/08/2011 17:59

I just had a horrible blast from the past, when my midwife told me not to use a hairdryer to dry myself after a 2nd degree tear from labour. :(

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ChocolateTeacup · 23/08/2011 18:00

RogerMelly, that wasn't a euphemism he is actually sending emails and orders in the morning

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ObiWan · 23/08/2011 18:01

Does he do the drying thing in the morning too? I was imagining a pre-bedtime type of thing. Hmm..

Bathsheba · 23/08/2011 18:02

Are we exageratting an "an hour" or is it REALLY, stand-up-in-a-court-of-law an hour....

MadameOvary · 23/08/2011 18:03

It sounds like a bit of an addiction - there was a programme I recall recently about a woman who could only sleep with the noise of the hairdryer on all night Confused. You know this stems from childhood so gawd knows what else his upbringing has led him to do.

Agree though that his attitude sucks. Horrible, twattish sense of entitlement. Angry

Kytti · 23/08/2011 18:04

Comedy Gold.... OMG. "is he a werewolf?" I can't stop laughing!

Seriously, a hairdryer? Do me a favour. Grin

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