Aibu to ask dh not to leave the tap running?

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Dh has this really irritating (and expensive) habit of leaving the tap running while he brushes his or dd's teeth, not just a trickle but a full on gush while he finds the toothbrush, and the toothpaste, add the latter to the former and then brushes... It takes ages!

Tonight i was in the bathroom with him and i simply said 'hon, could you please not leave the tap running like that?' to which he grumbled and moaned that he'd have to put it back on etc but he turned it off, put the toothpase on the brush and then turned it on again? This time he left it on fast again so i said 'are you just leaving it on just to wind me up?' and he got really angry and said he was fed up with being spoken to like that etc...

Aibu to have asked this? We are on a water meter and perpetually skint!

It used to annoy me too but I have given up nagging dh now. The difference between REALLY being careful about water and using it how we like is a fiver on our bill.

But Valium, it's not just about the monetary cost. The wider issue of drought (which is becoming an increasing problem in the UK) not to mention the western attitude of wastefulness.

He is an adult, I cannot make him turn the tap off, it's his choice wether to waste water. I don't do it and that is my choice.

Double, why would you focus on the basin tap if you are worried about wasteful use of water?

That is true, Valium.

I pick my battles double

Not particularly focusing on the tap, Piglet. Just that the thread happens to be about a tap. Careful you don't get me started. I'm a hydrologist by day.