to expect middle-aged men to be able to go out and not do the following......

[AtYourCevix]

a. lose their friends

b. get on the wrong train.

c. get on the wrong train, with their friends ticket, leaving said friend at the station.

d. take their mobile with them so they can deal with it themselves.

e. book into a b&b and not come home and irritate me.

f. not come home and get all uppity and arsy about nothing and irritate me even more (which hasn't yet happened but if it does I swear this may end in divorce).

How many middle aged men are you married to?

Sorry. You're asking too much. Why should you get a competent, responsible one? Eh?

just one worral.

he deeply pissed me off last time he went on a jolly by coming home and being vile. i fear a repeat and it may end in tears.

stupid fuckers.

you know, if i go out with my friends we have wine, we have fun, we are silly, we never, ever, ever forget where we are or where we live, forget how to speak, pick fights on return home, lose each other. that is normal.

doing all the above is not normal and it infuriates me.

Are you my SIL?

possible. who are you scaevola?

and now why am i worrying about the stupid fucking friend left behind on a station? he is perfectly capable of buying himself another fucking ticket.

twats.

Have they been drinking all day then?

It's only six!

here....have some x

Disengage. Not your problem. Open the , turn off your phone and watch some crap telly.

Are you sure he's middle aged? Sounds like the sort of dopey thing my 17 yr old would do.

since lunch-time ish.

crap telly on.

am considering in fact if i have had i can't be requested to go and pick up from anywhere. not that i would, but i probably would because i am nice but i wouldn't want to. and don't think i should be asked.

stupid stupid fuckers. i am unreasonabley angry that i am now stressing and it IS NOT MY PROBLEM.

fuckers.

exactly mumble. normal people do that at 17. then they grow up.

Your basic error here is assuming that they ever grow up. They do not. My friend's 80 year old Dad (normally a fine upstanding gentleman with a distinguished career behind him) was scrapping in the street with his pal on the way home from the pub last night. The friend is 79. I rest my case.

Mine went out last night (my teen, not my middle aged man), out of a club at 11.30, they didn't have enough for a taxi, so did they walk 4 miles home, or get a taxi and get the cash from their stash/my handbag? No, they wandered around a really rough area of high wycombe debating whose dad to get out of bed for two and a half hours and phoned the other lad's dad at 2.30.

ffs.

and WHY DO I CARE? i wish i didn't.

I think it's bizarre to get so wasted in the afternoon
It's not like any clubs are open is it
Where they watching footie?
I guess in six hours they could have sank a fair bit

Atyourcervix (arguably the best MN name at the moment esp knowing your occupation!!), YANBU at all!

Bloody awful, isn't it? I know this is mean but now that my DP and his friends are all mid-40's I think it looks a bit pathetic. I hope he apologises for being vile the day after!

Sorry but :o at the teenagers spending 2 hours in the early hours debating whose Dad to wake up.

they go off on jollys and drink vats of ale in specific places. which is a twattish thing to do on its own before the rest of the twattery.

Stop stressing!

They are big grown up men! The worst that will happen is you pick him up from the cells in the morning!

Turn your phone off, and put something on the iplayer, and forget about him until he rolls in later and you can make him sleep on the sofa with his farting arse. And send DCs down to wake him up at an ungodly hour.

I like to phone mine up and tell him off before I switch the phone off. Lets him know the tone of the reception he will get.

But why don't they go at night?!

I would love to go and drink ale in the day.

because they are stupid we live in the sticks with shite public transport and the specific pubs with specific ales in are miles away.