To wish DH had gone to work?

[startwig1982]

DH is on strike today, which I thought would be fab. Turns out that it's a bit like having a second child at home.
He made us late for picking a friend up this morning cos he was 'tired' and has a cold...
He was so keen to have his lunch that he made a mess of the kitchen and got in the way of me trying to do lunch for DS;
He turned off ds's lunch when I was cooking it, as I'd left the room;
Generally being a pain!! Raaagh!

I too look forward to DP's non-work days, the end up raging at him by 10am for being so annoying! Tell him to bugger off and do something out of the house, or better still plonk your DS on his lap and tell him you're just off for a coffee/haircut/shop.

Send him down to man a barricade or wave a placard or something, that'll get him out from under your feet.

If he's striking and not needed for childcare, he really should be on a picket line. Send him out there.

Man under the feet syndrome! Time for the Thora Hird School of DH training classes - bring your own pile of newspaper and DH.
Alternatively you could buy him a shed for Christmas. We once had a neighbour who did just that, and fitted it up with lace curtains, but that's another story.

He shouldn't be at home with you anyway if he's striking. He should be picketing / joining in with a march or something.

Had my husband at home today too. Now he's travelling to London for three days. Guess which bit I'm enjoying?

YANBU

If he was striking he should have been on a picket line or marching.

i find it so frustrating too when my husband is at home when he is usually at work! cos you have your own routine, your in the swing of things, they just add more mess, they think its a holiday but you have stuff to do and they sleep in and lounge about and just get in the way! a nuisance. yeh i think next time mine is at home, its time for him to mind dc and we should get haircuts/go chill out!